We always play women who are contentious with each other. The movies I have done with Meryl Streep (Devil Wears Prada, Into the Woods), she is not very nice to me in them. I’m wondering if maybe we could play sort of friends in the next one, and I will pitch it to her and she will probably turn around and be like, dream on.’

Marilyn Ness’s timely docu, Charm City, has just been selected as one of the semi-finalists of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

Her third feature, Happy as Lazzaro, which world premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, is arguably her richest and most fully realized movie.

“Roma” is Best Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

The 34th IDA Documentary Awards, hosted by Ricki Lake, took place Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Paramount Studios.