Last Year’s Winner: “13th”Still Eligible: No.Hot Streak: After earning its first nomination in 2014, Netflix is riding a two-year win streak with “What Happened, Miss Simone?” (2016) and “13th” (2017).Fun Fact: Since the category morphed from Outstanding Informational Special in 1998, HBO has won eight of the 20 trophies and landed multiple nominations 11 times.In recent years, documentaries with a little extra buzz have done well for themselves in this category.
Both “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and “13th” benefitted from earning Oscar nominations.
That bodes well for “Icarus,” which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature earlier this year.
No other contenders were Film Academy nominees, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t docs or nonfiction specials with lots of buzz.HBO has a slew of contenders, all of which have caused a stir in and outside the industry.
“Andre the Giant” has big-name subjects supporting the doc on the famous wrestler-turned-actor,
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