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This is a tough awards season! Lots of great movies to see, so little time! I'm catching up like crazy before we vote for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards for the Broadcast Film Critics Association. So I apologize if I haven't updated you with the latest on the awards season 2013-2014! And there were many award-giving bodies announcing nominations.

We already told you about the Rome Film Festival and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, now let's talk about the 2013 Gotham Awards, the Ida Documentary Awards, the Cinema Eye, and the Producers Guild announcing its best documentary choices.

First stop, we have the 2013 Gotham Awards where Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" topped the nominations with three nods including best feature, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and breakthrough actor for Lupita Nyong'o.

Winners will be announced on Dec. 2nd where Richard Linklater, Forest Whitaker, and Katherine Oliver (head of the NYC...

The historically significant work of groundbreaking war photographers like Roger Fenton, Alexander Gardner, Robert Capa and Joe Rosenthal has been widely documented, but the names of their modern-day counterparts are less well-known. The exceptions tend to be photoreporters killed in action, like Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who lost their lives in a 2011 attack in Misrata, Libya. That incident provides the background for one of the four episodes in Witness, a visceral HBO Documentary miniseries executive produced by Michael Mann and David Frankham. Directed by Abdallah Omeish, Witness: Libya premiered and was reviewed this summer at the

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Occupation 101, directed by brothrs Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, was the recepient of the Golden Palm Award at the 7th annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The documentary about the U.S. government's involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also took the prize for best editing.

The awards were handed out at the gala awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in honor of the Hearts of Hope Foundation.

Molly Parker was named best actress for her role in writer/director Matt Bissonnette's Who Loves the Sun, while the best actor award went to Steven R. McQueen for Club Soda, directed by Paul Carafortes. Soda also won the audience choice award for best short.

R. L. Hooker was honored as best director for his short film The Knife Grinder's Tale. The prize for best producer went to director/producer Michael Feifer for Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck, a horror film based on the true mass murder that took place in 1966. Massacre also won the Audience Choice Award for best feature.