Crumb (film)

Crumb is a 1994 documentary directed by Terry Zwigoff that examines the life, work and troubled family history of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, drawing on extensive interviews with the artist and his brothers Charles and Maxon. The film was widely praised for its unflinching, deeply personal portrait of an artist and his family, with critic Roger Ebert calling it a film that gives new meaning to the notion of art as therapy. Its failure to receive an Academy Award nomination despite near-universal critical acclaim, coming a year after a similar snub of Hoop Dreams, contributed to the Academy overhauling its documentary nomination process, and it is frequently ranked among the greatest nonfiction films ever made.