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Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have launched movie fans into excitement with the latest trailer for their new movie, “Barbie.” Gerwig directs the project and she also co-wrote the script with her partner Baumbach. Previously, both scored Oscar nominations in the same year for their work on “Little Women” (Adapted Screenplay for Gerwig) and “Marriage Story” (Original Screenplay for Baumbach). With “Barbie,” the pair of filmmakers could become the first couple to win an Oscar for the same feature film since 2018.

Gerwig and Baumbach would be up for Best Original Screenplay together, while Gerwig could also be up for Best Director, and both could be up for Best Picture (as producers). If they were to win together, they’d become the 19th couple to take home a pair of Oscars for the same movie.

They’d join these 18 joint champs:

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But Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi — husband-and-wife co-directors of “Free Solo” that is currently the favorite (although “Rbg” is creeping up) to win, according to Gold Derby’s combined odds — and their camera team and crew show no fear as they tag along with free-climber Alex Honnold as he attempts to be the first human to claw his way up Yosemite’s daunting El Capitan.

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Nick Broomfield’s Tales of the Grim Sleeper follows the case of the serial killer in South Central Los Angeles that spans more than 20 years. The first murder took place in 1985, but an apparent 14-year break between murders earned him the nickname of “the Grim Sleeper.” Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in 2010 and is currently awaiting trial for almost a dozen women, though the number could increase. Though the case is a major part of the film, Broomfield also explores poverty, racism and the police investigation that failed to warn the neighborhood that a serial killer was suspected until 2008.

The film made the Academy’s documentary feature shortlist and could land a nomination at the 87th Academy Awards. Here are seven other documentaries about murder in America that scored nominations (in chronological order):

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 This evening at 92Y Tribeca, J Hoberman will be introducing a screening of Anthony Mann's Reign of Terror (1949, also known as The Black Book) and signing copies of his new book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War. For Not Coming to a Theater Near You, Leo Goldsmith writes that "Hoberman's particular interest here is the cinema that captured and often prodded the pathologies of the day: reactionary exposés of the lurking Red Menace, crypto-socialist satires and sympathetic docudramas, and those scads of B-grade Cold War allegories presented in the genre guise of science fiction, the biblical epic, the western. With a cast of characters including G-men, fact-finders, space invaders, coonskin kids, Christian soldiers, and 'white negroes,' and with cameos from the likes of Ronald Reagan, Nick Ray, Orson Welles, and Joe McCarthy, it's a densely detailed, near-hallucinatory history, irradiated with Hoberman's inimitable,...

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"Waste Land," from director Lucy Walker, won best feature documentary at the International Documentary Association's 2010 Ida Awards held Friday night and hosted by Morgan Spurlock.

"Waste Land" is also among the 15 documentaries being considered by the Academy for Best Feature Documentary category. (See Academy Unleashes Best Documentary Short List)

2010 Ida Documentary Awards Winners

Feature Documentary Award

Waste Land

Short Documentary Award

Woman Rebel

Continuing Series Award

30 for 30

Limted Series Award

Have You Heard From Johannesburg

Ida Pare Lorentz Award

Waste Land

Honorable Mention

Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?

Ida Music Documentary Award

For Once In My Life

Abcnews Videosource Award

Bhutto

Ida Humanitas Award (Tie)

Presumed Guilty

The Oath

Ida David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award

Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story

Career Achievement Award

Barbara Kopple

Pioneer Award

Alan Raymond & Susan Raymond

Preservation And Scholarship Award

Mark Jonathan Harris

Honorable Mention

The...

The International Documentary Association nominees for distinguished feature and short are below. The winners will be named at the Ida Documentary Awards on December 3. Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock will host the event, which will present Jeff Malmberg, director of Marwencol, with the Ida/Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award; Susan and Alan Raymond with the Ida’s Pioneer Award, for their PBS series An American Family; and filmmaker and film professor Mark J. Harris with the Preservation and Scholarship Award. Ida’s previously announced Career Achievement honoree, Barbara Kopple, will also be recognized at the ceremony. The nominees are after the jump. More information is here. Ida members will view and vote for Distinguished Feature and Short Documentary via a secure online system. The five ...

Exclusive: Patrick Fugit and Shanna Collins have been added to the cast of HBO’s original movie Cinema Verite. The movie, written by David Seltzer, is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the groundbreaking 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family. Almost Famous star Fugit, repped by Gersh, and Collins (Swingtown) will play the young doc filmmakers behind the series, Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond, who would go on to win a documentary Oscar 20 years later. Cinema Verite stars Diane Lane and Tim Robbins as Santa Barbara couple Pat Loud and Bill, who, along with their children, were the subject [...]...