Unions representing West Virginia teachers say they’ll stay out on strike after the state Senate voted to cut the 5 percent pay raise they…
Unions representing West Virginia teachers say they’ll stay out on strike after the state Senate voted to cut the 5 percent pay raise they had negotiated with Gov. Jim Justice.
The world’s most famous sled dog race will begin Sunday in Alaska, but it comes after a difficult year for the Iditarod.
(AP Photo/Michael Dinneen). Iditarod musher Allen Moore waves to the crowd during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Saturday, March 3,2018, in Anchorage, Alaska. Moore has just won the Yukon Quest, a dog sled race from Whitehor…
Legal challenges to a Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote will go on trial in March in a case with national implications for voting rights.
Investigators are trying to figure out why a Central Michigan University student charged with fatally shooting his parents acted so strangely the day before the killings that he was taken to a hospital.
(Courtesy of Central Michigan University via AP). This undated photo provided by Central Michigan University shows James Eric Davis Jr., who police identified as the shooting suspect at a Central Michigan University residence hall on Friday, March 2,2…
Members of Congress join civil rights activists and others for annual commemoration of day of racial violence in Selma dating to 1965.
(Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP). A child runs down Water Street during the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in commemoration of the 53rd anniversary of Bloody Sunday on Sunday, March 4,2018, in Selma, Ala.
Democratic officials in some high-tax states are pushing legislation that would retain a federal tax break for state and local taxes, a deduction that was capped in the recent GOP tax overhaul.
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File). FILE – In this Jan. 16,2018, file photo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks before signing the first executive order of his administration in Trenton, N. J. Democratic officials in some high-tax states are pushing legisla…
(AP Photo/Eric Gay). In this Tuesday, Feb. 13,2018, photo, guests attend a Republican congressional candidate forum, in New Braunfels, Texas. Texas holds the nation’s first 2018 primary elections Tuesday, March 6,2018, and the campaign is providing a…
In Texas GOP primary, it’s who can love Trump the most
A day before the Oscars, ‘Get Out,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’ will vie for the top award at Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards.
(Universal Pictures via AP). FILE – This image released by Universal Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from, “Get Out.” The last four years, the film to win best feature Saturday, March 3,2018, at the Film Independent Spirit Awards has gone o…
Wakanda’s reign over America shows no signs of waning. “Black Panther” is king of the U. S. box office for the third straight weekend with a $65 million take.
(Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP). This image released by Disney shows Chadwick Boseman in a scene from Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther.” “Black Panther” is king of the U. S. box office for the third straight weekend. Studio estimates Sunday, M…
The killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 ignited a wave of copycat threats that school, police and the courts are now struggling to address.
(David Joles/Star Tribune via AP). In this Feb. 22,2018 photo, Meghan Stephenson hugs her child before staying goodbye outside Orono Schumann Elementary School as a police officer stands nearby as students arrive for the day after a threat was posted,…
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP). Bryan Fogel accepts the award for best documentary feature for “Icarus” at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4,2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP). Laura Dern, from right, and Greta Gerwig present Bryan Fogel with the award for best documentary feature for “Icarus” at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4,2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP). James R. Swartz, from left, Dan Cogan, David Fialkow, and Bryan Fogel accept the award for best documentary feature for “Icarus” at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4,2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP). Dan Cogan, from left, James R. Swartz, David Fialkow, and Bryan Fogel accept the award for best documentary feature for “Icarus” at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4,2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Bryan Fogel’s sports doping documentary “Icarus,” which exposed the state sponsored doping program of Russia’s Olympic athletes won best documentary at the Academy Awards Sunday.
It beat out both Agnes Varda’s feel-good “Faces Places,” which took the Film Independent Spirt Award Saturday, and the harrowing White Helmets documentary “Last Men in Aleppo.”
Fogel dedicated the award to Grigory Rodchenkov, “our fearless whistleblower who now lives in grave danger,” he said. Rodchenkov is the former director of Russia’s Anti-Doping Center, who became an unlikely whistleblower against the decades-long corruption exposed in the film.
“We hope ‘Icarus’ is a wake-up call, yes about Russia but more than that about the importance of telling the truth,” Fogel said.
Fogel also emotionally thanked his parents on the stage, but far away from the sight of the television cameras, his mother, in the very back of one of the upper decks in the auditorium, shrieked and waved at her Oscar-winning son.
Each documentary nominated had its own compelling story behind the story. In addition to Varda being the oldest Oscar-nominee, at 89, and the nail-biter of whether or not the “Aleppo” filmmakers would be able to make the ceremony with the travel ban (they did), “Strong Island” made history for its nomination of the first transgender filmmaker for its director Yance Ford, and “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” which was the first documentary nomination for its long-overlooked director Steve James.
