Woodstock is a 1970 documentary directed by Michael Wadleigh, chronicling the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair in upstate New York through concert performances and footage of the several hundred thousand attendees living communally on the festival grounds. The film was edited using extensive split-screen and multi-image techniques to convey the scale of the event, and its editing team included Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, both early in their careers. Woodstock won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and is widely regarded as the definitive filmed record of the festival and one of the most influential concert documentaries ever made.
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Did Woodstock win an Academy Award?
Yes. It won the Oscar for Documentary (Feature) at the 43rd Academy Awards in 1971.
Yes. Woodstock won the Academy Award for Documentary (Feature) at the 43rd Academy Awards, held on April 15, 1971, with Bob Maurice credited as producer. The Academy records the film as having three nominations and one win in total. The other nominees in the documentary category were Chariots of the Gods, Jack Johnson and Tora! Tora! Tora!.
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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary concert film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York.
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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary concert film
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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary concert film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York.
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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary concert film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York.
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Michael Wadleigh
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