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Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards.

A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.

Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.

The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.

Full list of nominations:

Best Single Documentary – Domestic

The Family Secret

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Nominations for the 48th annual British Documentary Awards, known as the Griersons, include episode two of Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning “For Sama,” and a best presenter nod for David Olusoga for “The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files.”

The awards are given by The Grierson Trust. Of the 52 nominated films, 21 were broadcast on BBC channels. Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece while YouTube Originals, Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery have one each.

Lorraine Heggessey, chair of The Grierson Trust, said: “This has been a difficult year for the production community and particularly for freelancers, so it’s more important than ever to recognize and celebrate the excellence of so many talented filmmakers, whether they are newcomers or established global names. These nominations demonstrate the relevance and versatility of documentaries,...

The horror/thriller feature Shawn Chou’s Reunion – remember its awesome trailer we shared with you last year? - is almost out of post-production. As there are still a few months to go before the film’s release, we thought we’d post an update in the form of an interview with the film’s amazing composer, Ian Arber, And give you, our awesome morehorror.com readers, the opportunity to be the very first to hear the film’s thrilling main theme!

Written by Bert Havird, Reunion stars Maria Olsen, Jack Turner and Sarah Schreiber with Reign Morton, Cara Santana, Ruth Reynolds, Christopher Wolfe, Arielle Brachfeld, Lief Gantvoort, Matthew Jaeger, William Leon and Lukas Barker supporting the principal cast. Reunion is an Ach Reunion/MOnsterworks66/Hilton Entertainment Group co-production.

Here’s the link to Reunion’s main theme as composed by Ian Arber for your listening pleasure:

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