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Video game industry wins first Oscar with documentary short Colette Apr 26, 2021, 1:38am EDT
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Colette, a short film featured in the Oculus VR game
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Presented by Oculus Studios and Electronic Arts’ Respawn Entertainment, and later acquired and distributed by
The Guardian, it’s the first time a video game industry project has won an Oscar.
Directed by Anthony Giacchino,
Colette features a French Resistance survivor, Colette Marin-Catherine, returning to Germany for the first time since the end of World War II to visit a slave labor camp where her brother was killed. The documentary is presented in a traditional 2D format whether you watch it in the Oculus TV app or elsewhere.
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Oscar bravo. Updated on 26 April 2021
This year s Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) has gone to Colette, a 25-minute film released as part of Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.
It s the first Academy Award win for part of a video game, as well as the first win for programming funded by Facebook and Electronic Arts, by way of Respawn.
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond was released in December last year for Oculus and Steam VR. Developed by Titanfall and Apex Legends studio Respawn, it also included a trove of background material to delve into, such as Colette.
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won an Academy Award.
The film was produced by Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment and Facebook-owned VR company Oculus (who also developed
The documentary follows Colette Marin-Catherine, one of the last surviving members of the French Resistance, as she travels to the remains of the slave-labor camp where her brother died during World War II.
It represents the first Academy Award win for a video game industry project, and more specifically Respawn and Oculus. Director Anthony Giacchino said he was inspired to make the film to preserve histories and stories that are at risk of being forgotten.