Joshua Oppenheimer’s Oscar-nominated documentary ‘The Look of Silence’ won a 2016 Independent Spirit Award last night.
The Danish film was named best documentary at a ceremony in Santa Monica, California where it saw off the four other nominees: ‘Best of Enemies’, ‘Heart of a Dog’, ‘Meru’ and ‘The Russian Woodpecker’.
Since 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards have been dedicated to independent films produced for less than 20 million dollars.
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Tonight, ‘The Look of Silence’ has an extremely small chance of winning the Oscar in the category for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards ceremony that kicks off at 8:30 pm in Los Angeles (2:30 am in Denmark).
The film faces tough opposition from the British documentary ‘Amy’, which is a strong odds-on favourite to triumph. ‘The Look of Silence’ is 16/1 with Bet 365 to win.
Denmark’s other interest in this year’s Oscars is the war drama ‘Krigen’ (‘A War’) in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It is a 40/1 shot.
Written and directed by Tobias Lindholm, the movie tells the story of a Danish military company in Afghanistan.
And it will have to pull off a miracle to upset the odds-on favourite, Hungary’s ‘Son of Saul’, which yesterday won the best international film prize at the Independent Spirit Awards.
