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O.J.: Made in America - Season 1: O.J.: Made in America - Season 1 The five-part documentary chronicles the rise and fall of American football star, O.J. Simpson, from his days growing up in Los Angeles to his post-football career and infamy with the 1995 trial for the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ron Goldman.
O.J.: Made in America
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| Directed by | Ezra Edelman |
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| Music by | Gary Lionelli |
| Cinematography | Nick Higgins |
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| Distributed by | ESPN Films |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
O.J.: Made in America is a 2016 American documentary produced and directed by Ezra Edelman for ESPN Films and their 30 for 30 series, which was released as a five-part miniseries and in theatrical format. The documentary explores two of America's greatest fixations – race and celebrity – through the life of O. J. Simpson, from his emerging football career at the University of Southern California and why America fell in love with him, to being accused of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, and his subsequent acquittal, and how he was convicted and imprisoned for another crime 13 years later.[1] O.J.: Made in America premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2016, was released in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles in May 2016 and debuted on ABC on June 11, 2016, and aired on ESPN. The documentary has received widespread acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards.
Premise[edit]
Through interviews, news footage, and archival audio and video, O.J.: Made in America traces the life and career of O. J. Simpson, starting with his arrival at the University of Southern California as an emerging football superstar and ending with his incarceration in 2007 for robbery. Throughout the documentary, Simpson's life – the football success, television career, relationship with Nicole Brown, the domestic abuse, Nicole and Ron Goldman's murder, the trial – runs parallel to the larger narrative of the city of Los Angeles, which serves as host to mounting racial tensions and a volatile relationship between the city's police department and the African American community.
TV critic James Poniewozik described the director's technique in his New York Times review: "Ezra Edelman pulls back, way back, like a news chopper over a freeway chase. Before you hear about the trial, the documentary says, you need to hear all the stories – the stories of race, celebrity, sports, America – that it's a part of."[2]
Production[edit]
Development of a documentary based on Simpson for ESPN Films began in 2007, eventually leading to the hiring of Brett Morgen to create the film, June 17th, 1994, also part of the 30 for 30 series.[3] Released in June 2010, June 17th, 1994 used solely archive footage from several sporting events that occurred on June 17, 1994, to chronicle the events of the police chase of O. J. Simpson.[4] ESPN Films executive producer Connor Schell said, "If you are going to do O. J. Simpson, you are going to cover June 1994 to Oct. 1995 – it is unavoidable. But if you are interested in things that came before it and after it, then it has to be longer than the traditional two-hour form." This led to a meeting between Schell and director Ezra Edelman in February 2014 where Schell expressed interest in creating a five-hour documentary on Simpson. Edelman initially declined, as he felt "there was nothing left to say about him". Edelman eventually agreed to the project, realizing that Simpson's trial did not have to be the focus, or if he was innocent or guilty, rather, Edelman "could use that canvas to tell a deeper story about race in America, about the city of Los Angeles, the relationship between the black community and the police, and who O. J. was and his rise to celebrity. That's the story I wanted to tell."[3]
Throughout the 18-month process from conception to completion, Edelman conducted 72 interviews for the documentary, "including key players from the prosecution (Marcia Clark, Gil Garcetti and Bill Hodgman), Simpson's defense team (F. Lee Bailey, Carl E. Douglas and Barry Scheck), childhood friends of Simpson, jurors from the criminal trial, former LAPD detectives involved in the case (Mark Fuhrman and Tom Lange) and African-American civil rights activists", and people who could speak on behalf of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Edelman also reached out to Simpson through a letter, which was never answered; he had also hoped to include Simpson's first wife, Marguerite, who could not be contacted, and former L.A. County district attorney Christopher Darden, who declined participation. Despite envisioning the project as a five-hour documentary, the final film was screened to ESPN Films executives at 7.5 hours in length, to which Schell said they would figure out the programming end, as they were "going to give Ezra the time he needs to tell this story".[3] The initial plan was to break the film into three parts – "everything leading up to the murder and then the trial and then everything after the trial" – before a five-part format was settled on.[5]
In January 2016, ESPN Films announced O.J.: Made in America for part of their 30 for 30 series. It was also revealed to be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2016, along with a theatrical release in New York City and Los Angeles on May 20, 2016, and a debut on television in June 2016.[1]
Release[edit]
O.J.: Made in America premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2016,[1] with one intermission,[6] and was also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2016,[7] and the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto on April 29 and 30.[8] The documentary had a theatrical run with two intermissions at Cinema Village in New York City and the Laemmle Theatre in Santa Monica, California from May 20–26, 2016. The first part debuted on television on June 11, 2016 on ABC, followed by parts two through five airing on ESPN on June 14, 15, 17 and 18, respectively.[6] The entire documentary was made available on WatchESPN on June 14, 2016, after the airing of the second part.[3] In subsequent airings of the fourth part, graphic crime scene photos were blurred by ESPN, to allow the re-airings to occur "at various times". The images were not blurred in the original airing or in the version available "on demand to viewers online or via cable VOD services".[9]
Reception[edit]
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 9.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "O.J.; Made in America paints a balanced and thorough portrait of the American dream juxtaposed with tragedy and executed with power and skill."[10] On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a score of 96 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[11]
Kenneth Turan and Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times both praised O.J.: Made in America, with Turan stating, the film "is an exceptional 7 1/2-hour documentary, so perceptive, empathetic and compelling you want it never to end",[12] with McNamara adding, "Historically meticulous, thematically compelling and deeply human, O.J.: Made in America is a masterwork of scholarship, journalism and cinematic art."[13]Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch called the film "the best 30 for 30 documentary [ESPN] has ever produced. It is thrilling and uncompromising filmmaking... and it will make you look at the most famous murder case in United States history with fresh eyes and under a larger prism."[3] Brian Tallerico, writing for RogerEbert.com, awarded the film four stars out of four, stating, "Even in this era of 'Peak TV', it's rare to see something as essential and momentous as ESPN's OJ: Made in America... Ezra Edelman's stunningly ambitious, eight-hour documentary is a masterpiece, a refined piece of investigative journalism that places the subject it illuminates into the broader context of the end of the 20th century... I would have watched it for another eight hours... It's that good."[14]
Daniel Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter said, "O.J.: Made in America is a provocative, intelligent and thorough documentary that tears along at an impressive clip given its length, with tragedy around every corner. The first miniseries to air under the ESPN Films and 30 for 30 banners, it also instantly takes its place among the banner's best efforts",[15] while Hank Stuever for The Washington Post called it "nothing short of a towering achievement".[16] Variety's Brian Lowry added, "even in the annals of ESPN's 30 for 30 docs, [Ezra Edelman has created] what feels like a master opus – one that deals with the nexus of race, celebrity and sports, and the strange juxtaposition of a figure who prided himself on transcending color, yet ultimately relied upon it when charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman."[17]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times felt the film "has the grandeur and authority of the best long-form nonfiction. If it were a book, it could sit on the shelf alongside The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer and the great biographical works of Robert Caro. It's very much a film, though, a feat of tireless research, dogged interviewing and skillful editing." However, Scott felt a "significant blind spot" for the film was its "predominance of male voices among the interview subjects, and the narrowness of the film's discussion of domestic violence... [T]he film, which so persuasively treats law enforcement racism as a systemic problem, can't figure out how to treat violence against women with the same kind of rigor or nuance", adding that "O. J. Simpson is viewed as a symbol" while "Nicole Brown Simpson's fate, in contrast, is treated as an individual tragedy, and there seems to be no political vocabulary available to the filmmakers to understand what happened to her. The deep links between misogyny and American sports culture remain unexamined."[18]
Accolades[edit]
| Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Outcome |
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| Academy Awards | Best Documentary Feature | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| ACE Eddie Awards | Best Edited Documentary Feature | Bret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski | Won |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Nominated |
| American Film Institute Awards | AFI Special Award | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Austin Film Critics Association Awards | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Nominated |
| Black Reel Awards | Best Feature Documentary | Ezra Edelman | Nominated |
| Outstanding Emerging Filmmaker | Ezra Edelman | Won | |
| Boston Society of Film Critics | Best Documentary Film | Ezra Edelman | Won |
| Central Ohio Film Critics Association | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Pending |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Cinema Audio Society | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Documentary | Keith Hodne and Eric Di Stefano | Nominated |
| Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US | Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking | Ezra Edelman | Pending |
| Caroline Waterlow | Pending | ||
| Outstanding Achievement in Direction | Ezra Edelman | Pending | |
| Outstanding Achievement in Editing | Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, and Ben Sozanski | Pending | |
| Outstanding Achievement in Production | Ezra Edelman | Pending | |
| Caroline Waterlow | Pending | ||
| Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score | Gary Lionelli | Pending | |
| Critics' Choice Documentary Awards | Best Documentary (Theatrical Feature) | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Best Director (Theatrical Feature) | Ezra Edelman | Won | |
| Best Sports Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won | |
| Best Limited Documentary Series | O.J.: Made in America | Won | |
| Best Political Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Nominated | |
| Detroit Film Critics Society | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Runner-up |
| Gotham Independent Film Awards | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Documentary Feature | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Independent Spirit Awards | Best Documentary Feature | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Indiana Film Journalists Association, US | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| IndieWire Critics Poll | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Best Editing | Bret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski | Runner-up | |
| Best Film | O.J.: Made in America | 5th Place | |
| International Documentary Association | IDA Award for Best Feature | Ezra Edelman | Won |
| Deirdre Fenton | Won | ||
| Libby Geist | Won | ||
| Nina Krstic | Won | ||
| Erin Leyden | Won | ||
| Tamara Rosenberg | Won | ||
| Connor Schell | Won | ||
| Caroline Waterlow | Won | ||
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society | Best Documentary Film | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Editing | Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, and Ben Sozanski | Won |
| Best Documentary Film | Ezra Edelman | Runner-up | |
| National Board of Review | Best Documentary Film | Ezra Edelman | Won |
| National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Non-Fiction Film | Ezra Edelman | Won |
| Nevada Film Critics Society | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| New York Film Critics Circle | Best Documentary Film | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| New York Film Critics Online | Top Films of the Year | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Oklahoma Film Critics Circle | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Best Film | O.J.: Made in America | 4th Place | |
| Online Film Critics Society | Best Documentary Film | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Best Picture | O.J.: Made in America | Nominated | |
| Philadelphia Film Festival | Audience Award – Best Feature | Ezra Edelman | Won |
| Phoenix Critics Circle | Best Documentary Film | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Phoenix Film Critics Society | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Nominated |
| Producers Guild of America Awards | Best Documentary Motion Picture | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| San Diego Film Critics Society | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Nominated |
| San Francisco Film Critics Circle | Best Documentary Film | Ezra Edelman | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | Best Documentary Film | Ezra Edelman | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics | Best Documentary | Ezra Edelman | Pending |
| Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Nominated |
| Village Voice Film Poll | Best Documentary | O.J.: Made in America | Won |
| Best Film | O.J.: Made in America | 5th Place | |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | Best Documentary | Ezra Edelman | Nominated |
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