Capturing the Friedmans
Awards (click to collapse)
Sundance, USA (2003) – Winner: Grand Jury Prize
Satellite Awards, USA (2004) – Nominated: Best Motion Picture, Documentary
Satellite Awards, USA (2005) – Nominated: Best Documentary DVD
International Documentary Association, USA (2003) – Nominated: Feature Documentaries
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, USA (2003) – Winner: Best Documentary
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, USA (2004) – Winner: Sierra Award – Best Documentary
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, USA (2003) – Nominated: Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
National Board of Review, USA (2003) – Winner: Freedom of Expression Award, Top 5 Documentaries
New York Film Critics Circle Awards, USA (2003) – Winner: Best Non-Fiction Film
News & Documentary Emmy Awards, USA (2005) – Winner: Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Editing
Online Film Critics Society Awards (2004) – Winner: Best Documentary
Academy Awards, USA (2003) – Nominated: Oscar – Documentary Feature
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards, USA (2003) – Winner: Best Documentary
São Paulo Int’l FF, Brazil (2003) – Winner: Critics Award – Best Documentary
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, Canada (2003) – Winner: Best Documentary
Seattle Film Critics Awards, USA (2003) – Winner: Best Documentary
San Francisco Film Critics Circle, USA (2003) – Winner: Best Documentary
Golden Trailer Awards, USA (2004) – Nominated: Best Documentary
Chlotrudis Awards, USA (2004) – Winner: Best Documentary
Madrid Int’l Doc FF, Spain (2004) – Winner: Best Feature-Length Documentary
Central Ohio Film Critics Association, USA (2004) – Winner: Best Documentary
DVD Exclusive Awards, USA (2005) – Winner: Best Deleted Scenes, Outtakes and Bloopers
American Cinema Editors, USA (2004) – Nominated: Eddie – Best Edited Documentary Film
DVD Exclusive Awards, USA (2005) – Nominated: Best Overall DVD (New Movie), Best New Movie Scenes
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, USA (2014) – Winner: The Influentials
Online Film & Television Association (2004) – Winner: Best Documentary Picture
Village Voice Film Poll (2003) – Nominated: Best Film, Best First Feature, Best Documentary
Gold Derby Awards, USA (2004) – Winner: Documentary Feature
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (2003) – Winner: Best Documentary, Best New Filmmaker
Critics Choice Awards, USA (2004) – Winner: Best Documentary
Displaying in detail every reason for and against an hysterical witch-hunt, this fascinating, intimate and controversial film objectively questions the notion of social justice.
Arnold, Elaine and their three boys grew up in upper-middle-class suburbia. By all accounts, they have it all; until a paedophile magazine is tracked to the Friedman house. Arnold’s daily contact with children energises a massive, quick-strike investigation. When children, under the guidance of the police, reveal outlandish stories of secretive communal abuse and naked leap-frog, the quiet community becomes hysterical, and the family falls apart.
Including an extraordinary archive of home videos, candid footage of the family’s most harrowing moments and interviews with the victims, this is a penetrating expose of a subject that no-one will usually touch.
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