Candour Productions and Rogan Productions have each scored four nominations on this year’s longlist for the Grierson British Documentary Awards.
Candour’s Channel 4 doc Groomed: a National Scandal is up for both best single documentary – domestic and best current affairs documentary.
The Leeds-based indie also has films on the longlist for two new categories: ITV single The Essex Millionaire Murders for best crime and justice documentary and Channel 5 series Cause of Death for best returning documentary series.
Rogan has two places on the best popular culture documentary longlist: BBC1’s Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks [main picture] and C4’s The Rise & Fall of Michelle Mone.
Ayling-Ellis is also up for best documentary presenter, while the Glasgow indie’s BBC doc The Search for Nicola Bulley is nominated in the best single documentary – domestic category.
Meanwhile, five indies have three entries on the longlist: Acme, Amos Pictures, Fee Fie Foe, Lightbox, and Minnow Films.
The best documentary series longlist comprises three Sky shows: Babaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park (True Vision); Chimp Crazy (Amos Pictures); David Frost vs (Paradine Productions/White Horse Pictures/Sky Studios); two Netflix series: Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action (Minnow Films) and The Diamond Heist (Lightbox); two C4 shows: Kill List: Hunted by Putin’s Spies (Passion Pictures/Bellingcat Productions) and Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube (Curious Films); and National Geographic’s Tsunami: Race Against Time (Blast Films).
Though the BBC doesn’t feature on that list, it leads the way with 31 entries, followed by C4 with 17, Netflix with 16, Sky Documentaries with 10, Disney+ with five, Prime Video with four, ITV with three, and two entries each for C5, Apple TV+, Discovery+, National Geographic and Mubi.
Juries will next whittle the categories down to a shortlist of four ahead of the ceremony on 18 November.
See the full longlist here
