Jane (2017 film)
Jane is a 2017 American biographical documentary film directed and written by Brett Morgen about primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist Jane Goodall.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
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Directed by | Brett Morgen |
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Written by | Brett Morgen |
Starring | Jane Goodall |
Music by | Philip Glass |
Cinematography | Ellen Kuras |
Edited by | Joe Beshenkovsky |
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Distributed by | Abramorama |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.8 million[1] |
During the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, the film's world premiere was at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 10, 2017.[10]
Plot
Jane Goodall, a young and untrained woman, challenges the male dominated scientific consensus of her time with her chimpanzee research and revolutionizes people's understanding of the natural world.[11]
Reception
Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 93 reviews, and an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Jane honors its subject's legacy with an absorbing, beautifully filmed, and overall enlightening look at her decades of invaluable work."[12] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[13]
Awards and nominations
Year | Award/Festival | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
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2017 | 25th Hamptons International Film Festival | Zelda Penzel “Giving Voice to the Voiceless” Award | Brett Morgen | Nominated |
61st BFI London Film Festival | The Grierson Award for Best Documentary | Nominated | ||
26th Philadelphia Film Festival | Student Choice Award | Won | ||
2nd Critics' Choice Documentary Awards[14][15] | Best Documentary | Won | ||
8th Hollywood Music in Media Awards[16] | Original Score – Documentary | Philip Glass | Won | |
31st Leeds International Film Festival | Audience Award – Cinema Versa | Brett Morgen | Won | |
89th National Board of Review Awards | Best Documentary Film | Won | ||
43rd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Documentary Film | Nominated | ||
30th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam | IDFA Audience Award | Nominated | ||
16th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Documentary | Won | ||
2018 | 11th Cinema Eye Honors[17] | Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize | Won | |
Outstanding Achievement in Editing | Joe Beshenkovsky | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score | Philip Glass | Won | ||
The Unforgettables | Jane Goodall | Won | ||
29th Producers Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures | Jane | Won | |
2018 | 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards[18][19] | Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program | Ellen Kuras and Hugo Van Lawick | Won |
Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program | Brett Morgen | Won | ||
Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming | Warren Shaw, Joshua Paul Johnson, Odin Benitez, Peter Staubli, Will Digby, Suzana Peric, Tara Blume | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program | David E. Fluhr, Marc Fishman, Lee Smith, Derek Lee | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Picture Editing For A Nonfiction Program | Joe Beshenkovsky, Brett Morgen, Editor Will Znidaric, Editor | Nominated | ||
Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking | Brett Morgen, Bryan Burk, James Smith, Tim Pastore | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Writing For A Nonfiction Program | Brett Morgen | Nominated |
References
- "Jane (2017)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- "A Jane Goodall Documentary Proves Entirely Worthy of Its Subject". The Village Voice. October 11, 2017.
- "Jane Goodall Reflects on a Lifelong Mission to Save the Planet, and She's Far from Finished". Los Angeles Times. October 20, 2017.
- "Jane Goodall Heads into the Wild in the Stunning New Doc Jane". Entertainment Weekly. October 23, 2017.
- "Jane Documentary Looks at a Pioneering Primatologist". The Washington Post. October 26, 2017.
- "Jane Travels Back to Goodall's Early Years with Chimps". Austin American-Statesman. November 2, 2017.
- "Jane Observes and Extols Nature". The Boston Globe. November 2, 2017.
- "Jane Looks at the Life and Loves of Conservationist Goodall". The Boston Globe. November 2, 2017.
- "'Jane' Goodall Documentary Is a Love Story About a Woman and Her Work". The ARTery. November 3, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- Powers, Thom (September 7, 2017). "Jane". tiff. Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- Moviefone
- "Jane (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- "Jane Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- "Critics' Choice Documentary Awards: Jane Goodall Pic Takes Top Honor; Kedi, Vietnam War Among Winners". Deadline Hollywood. November 2, 2017.
- "Jane Takes Top Prize at Second Annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards". Variety. November 2, 2017.
- "Hollywood Music in Media Awards: Full Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. November 17, 2017.
- "Cinema Eye Names Subjects from Faces Places and Jane Among 2017's 'Unforgettables'". IndieWire. October 18, 2017.
- "70th Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations" (PDF). Television Academy. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- "2018 Creative Arts Sunday Winners" (PDF). Television Academy. September 9, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2018.
External links
- Jane on IMDb
- Jane at Rotten Tomatoes
- Jane at Metacritic