Key Highlights
- Geeta Gandbhir’s chilling documentary about the case, The Perfect Neighbor, constructed primarily from police body cam and dash cam video, won five awards at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, including Best Documentary Feature.
- Those honors and many others, including the documentary directing award at Sundance, have positioned The Perfect Neighbor as an Oscar favorite.
- For Netflix, which used to dominate the Best Documentary Feature category at the Oscars, it marks an opportunity to get back into serious contention.
- The streamer won in 2018 for Icarus, 2020 for American Factory, and in 2021 for My Octopus Teacher, but since then, has recorded a single Oscar nomination for Best Doc Feature — for To Kill a Tiger in 2024 — a film it only acquired after it was nominated.
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