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It received a Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary in 2017 [7] and was nominated for the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [8] It was also nominated for an Emmy in Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking that year.
Mar 4, 2018 · Before his big night at the Oscars, we talked with Ford about the work and heart that went into making Strong Island, stereotypes about Black consciousness and grief, and what it feels like to be the first out trans director nominated for an Academy Award.
Jan 26, 2018 · This past week, Yance Ford made history when his directorial debut Strong Island earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. He is the first transgender director to ever receive an Oscar nomination, a watershed event that hinged upon Ford’s willingness to reclaim his family’s narrative and the courage it took to own and ...
- Genevieve Jacobson
Yance Ford becomes the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Strong Island: Directed by Yance Ford. With Yance Ford, Harvey Walker, Kevin Myers, Lauren Ford. When filmmaker Yance Ford investigates the 1992 murder of a young Black man, it becomes an achingly personal journey, since the victim, 24-year-old William Ford Jr., was the filmmaker's brother.
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- Documentary, Crime
- Yance Ford
- 2017-09-15
Mar 4, 2018 · The African-American director's documentary tells the personal tale of his brother's killing by a white man. Michel Martin talks to Ford, the first openly transgender director nominated for an...
Feb 21, 2018 · Screen sat down with Ford to talk about releasing the film through Netflix and becoming the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award. How have people reacted to the film...
