best documentary
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Best documentary is an award category recognizing outstanding nonfiction filmmaking, most prominently at the Academy Awards: The film won Best Documentary at the Oscars.
The phrase also appears casually to describe someone's personal favorite: What's the best documentary you've seen this year?
- award-winningHonored with accolades
- critical acclaimPraise from reviewers
- compellingPowerfully engaging or persuasive
- footageRecorded video material
- filmmakerOne who makes movies
Oscar · narrative · investigative · riveting · groundbreaking · eye-opening · acclaimed · Sundance · film festival · truth · exposé · social justice · interview · archive · story · gripping · masterpiece · Netflix
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mockumentary · docudrama · fabrication · reality TV · dramatization
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