O.J.: Made in America explained

O.J.: Made in America
Director:Ezra Edelman
Music:Gary Lionelli
Cinematography:Nick Higgins
Distributor:Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Runtime:467 minutes[1]
Country:United States
Language:English
Budget:$5 million[2]

O.J.: Made in America is a 2016 American documentary, produced and directed by Ezra Edelman for ESPN Films and their 30 for 30 series. It was released as a five-part miniseries and in theatrical format. O.J.: Made in America premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2016, and was theatrically released in New York City and Los Angeles in May 2016 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It debuted on ABC on June 11, 2016, and aired on ESPN.

The documentary explores race and celebrity through the life of O. J. Simpson, from his emerging football career at the University of Southern California, and his celebrity and popularity within American culture, to his trial for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, and subsequent acquittal, and how he was convicted and imprisoned for the Las Vegas robbery 13 years later.

The documentary received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards. It was the longest film in the 30 for 30 catalogue[3] and longest film to ever receive an Oscar nomination and win[4] (surpassing War and Peace).[5] The documentary became the last of its type to be nominated and win an Oscar after a new Academy rule barred any "multi-part or limited series" from being eligible for the documentary categories.[6] Edelman received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for his work on this project. The series also received a Peabody Award for its work.

Premise

Through interviews, news footage, and archival audio and video, O.J.: Made in America traces the life and career of O. J. Simpson, starting with his arrival at the University of Southern California as an emerging football superstar and ending with his incarceration in 2007 for robbery. Throughout the documentary, Simpson's life – the football success, television & acting career, relationship with Nicole Brown, the domestic abuse, Nicole and Ron Goldman's murder, the trial – runs parallel to the larger narrative of the city of Los Angeles, which serves as host to mounting racial tensions, and a volatile relationship between the city's police department and the African-American community. Footage from the Watts riots was used as well as the entire Rodney King video, which most news outlets and documentaries only used in parts. Both of these events are used to set up and explain what happened during the Simpson murder trial.

Television critic James Poniewozik described the director's technique in his New York Times review: "Ezra Edelman pulls back, way back, like a news chopper over a freeway chase. Before you hear about the trial, the documentary says, you need to hear all the stories – the stories of race, celebrity, sports, America – that it's a part of."[7]

Production

Development of a documentary based on Simpson for ESPN Films began in 2007, eventually leading to the hiring of Brett Morgen to create the film, June 17, 1994, also part of the 30 for 30 series. Released in June 2010, June 17, 1994 used solely archive footage from several sporting events that occurred on June 17, 1994, to chronicle the events of the police chase of O. J. Simpson. ESPN Films executive producer Connor Schell said, "If you are going to do O. J. Simpson, you are going to cover June 1994 to Oct. 1995 – it is unavoidable. But if you are interested in things that came before it and after it, then it has to be longer than the traditional two-hour form." This led to a meeting between Schell and director Ezra Edelman in February 2014, where Schell expressed interest in creating a five-hour documentary on Simpson. Edelman initially declined, as he felt "there was nothing left to say about him". Edelman eventually agreed to the project, realizing that Simpson's trial did not have to be the focus, or if he was innocent or guilty, rather, Edelman "could use that canvas to tell a deeper story about race in America, about the city of Los Angeles, the relationship between the black community and the police, and who O. J. was and his rise to celebrity. That's the story I wanted to tell."

Throughout the 18-month process from conception to completion, Edelman conducted 72 interviews for the documentary, "including key players from the prosecution (Marcia Clark, Gil Garcetti and Bill Hodgman), Simpson's defense team (F. Lee Bailey, Carl E. Douglas and Barry Scheck), childhood friends of Simpson (Joe Bell and Calvin Tennyson), relatives of Simpson (cousin Dwight Tucker), fellow football players (Jim Brown and Earl Edwards), jurors from the criminal trial (Carrie Bess and Yolanda Crawford), former LAPD detectives involved in the case (Mark Fuhrman and Tom Lange) and African-American civil rights activists (Dr. Harry Edwards, Danny Bakewell and Cecil Murray)", and people who could speak on behalf of Ron Goldman (his father Fred Goldman) and Nicole Brown Simpson (her sister Tanya Brown, her friends David LeBon and Robin Greer, and her boyfriend Keith Zlomsowitch). Also interviewed were people connected to Simpson such as his agent Mike Gilbert along with Tom Riccio and Bruce Fromong, who were each involved parties of the 2008 robbery.

Edelman also reached out to Simpson through a letter, which was never answered; he had also hoped to include Simpson's first wife, Marguerite L. Whitley, who could not be contacted, and former L.A. County district attorney Christopher Darden, who declined participation. Despite envisioning the project as a five-hour documentary, the final film was screened to ESPN Films executives at 7.5 hours in length, to which Schell said they would figure out the programming end, as they were "going to give Ezra the time he needs to tell this story". The initial plan was to break the film into three parts – "everything leading up to the murder and then the trial and then everything after the trial" – before a five-part format was settled on.[8] In January 2016, ESPN Films announced O.J.: Made in America for part of their 30 for 30 series.

Ishmael Reed was interviewed by director Ezra Edelman for O.J.: Made in America, however his interview wasn't used in the documentary.[9] Reed was critical of the documentary in an article he wrote for the magazine CounterPunch.[9] He stated, “In the series, other prosecutors yammered on and on about theories that were disproven in court. A detective who might have planted evidence was allowed to take up time. In order to make the case that the decision in the criminal trial was based on black grievances about the LAPD, or Mark Fuhrman, they used a black juror whose opinion fit this marketable line instead of jurors who voted on the basis of evidence that had been tampered with. The late Philip Vannatter never explained why he carried a vial of the victim’s blood to O.J.’s estate.”[9]

Music

See main article: O.J.: Made in America (soundtrack).

Release

O.J.: Made in America premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2016, with one intermission, and was also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2016,[10] and the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto on April 29 and 30.[11] The documentary had a theatrical run with two intermissions at Cinema Village in New York City and the Laemmle Theatre in Santa Monica, California from May 20–26, 2016. The first part debuted on television on June 11, 2016, on ABC, followed by parts two through five airing on ESPN on June 14, 15, 17 and 18, respectively.[12] The entire documentary was made available on WatchESPN on June 14, 2016, after the airing of the second part. In subsequent airings of the fourth part, graphic crime scene photos were blurred by ESPN, to allow the re-airings to occur "at various times." The images were not blurred in the original airing or in the version available "on demand to viewers online or via cable VOD services."[13]

Reception and legacy

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100%, based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 9.27/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "O.J.; Made in America paints a balanced and thorough portrait of the American dream juxtaposed with tragedy and executed with power and skill."[14] On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a score of 96 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[15]

Kenneth Turan and Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times both praised O.J.: Made in America, with Turan stating, the film "is an exceptional 7 1/2-hour documentary, so perceptive, empathetic and compelling you want it never to end", with McNamara adding, "Historically meticulous, thematically compelling and deeply human, O.J.: Made in America is a masterwork of scholarship, journalism and cinematic art." Sports Illustrateds Richard Deitsch called the film "the best 30 for 30 documentary [ESPN] has ever produced. It is thrilling and uncompromising filmmaking... and it will make you look at the most famous murder case in United States history with fresh eyes and under a larger prism." Brian Tallerico, writing for RogerEbert.com, awarded the film four stars out of four, stating, "Even in this era of 'Peak TV', it's rare to see something as essential and momentous as ESPN's OJ: Made in America... Ezra Edelman's stunningly ambitious, eight-hour documentary is a masterpiece, a refined piece of investigative journalism that places the subject it illuminates into the broader context of the end of the 20th century... I would have watched it for another eight hours... It's that good."

Daniel Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter said, "O.J.: Made in America is a provocative, intelligent and thorough documentary that tears along at an impressive clip given its length, with tragedy around every corner. The first miniseries to air under the ESPN Films and 30 for 30 banners, it also instantly takes its place among the banner's best efforts", while Hank Stuever for The Washington Post called it "nothing short of a towering achievement". Varietys Brian Lowry added, "even in the annals of ESPN's 30 for 30 docs, [Ezra Edelman has created] what feels like a master opus – one that deals with the nexus of race, celebrity and sports, and the strange juxtaposition of a figure who prided himself on transcending color, yet ultimately relied upon it when charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman."

A. O. Scott of The New York Times felt the film "has the grandeur and authority of the best long-form nonfiction. If it were a book, it could sit on the shelf alongside The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer and the great biographical works of Robert Caro. It's very much a film, though, a feat of tireless research, dogged interviewing and skillful editing." However, Scott felt a "significant blind spot" for the film was its "predominance of male voices among the interview subjects, and the narrowness of the film's discussion of domestic violence... [T]he film, which so persuasively treats law enforcement racism as a systemic problem, can't figure out how to treat violence against women with the same kind of rigor or nuance", adding that "O. J. Simpson is viewed as a symbol" while "Nicole Brown Simpson's fate, in contrast, is treated as an individual tragedy, and there seems to be no political vocabulary available to the filmmakers to understand what happened to her. The deep links between misogyny and American sports culture remain unexamined."

It was voted #81 on BBC's 100 Greatest Television Series of the 21st Century.[16] [17]

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)Result
Academy AwardsFebruary 26, 2017Best Documentary FeatureEzra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow[18]
ACE Eddie AwardsJanuary 27, 2017Best Edited Documentary FeatureBret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski[19]
Alliance of Women Film JournalistsDecember 21, 2016Best DocumentaryEzra Edelman[20] [21]
American Film Institute AwardsJanuary 6, 2017AFI Special AwardO.J.: Made in America[22] [23]
Austin Film Critics AssociationDecember 28, 2016Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[24]
Black Reel AwardsFebruary 16, 2017Best Feature DocumentaryEzra Edelman[25] [26]
Outstanding Emerging FilmmakerEzra Edelman
Boston Society of Film CriticsDecember 11, 2016Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America[27]
Chicago Film Critics AssociationDecember 15, 2016Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[28]
Cinema Audio SocietyFebruary 18, 2017Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – DocumentaryKeith Hodne and Eric Di Stefano[29]
Cinema Eye HonorsJanuary 11, 2017Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature FilmmakingEzra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow[30] [31]
Outstanding Achievement in DirectionEzra Edelman
Outstanding Achievement in EditingBret Granato, Maya Mumma, and Ben Sozanski
Outstanding Achievement in ProductionEzra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music ScoreGary Lionelli
Critics' Choice Documentary AwardsNovember 3, 2016Best Documentary FeatureO.J.: Made in America[32] [33]
Best Director (Theatrical Feature)Ezra Edelman
Best Sports DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America
Best Limited Documentary SeriesO.J.: Made in America
Best Political DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America
Detroit Film Critics SocietyDecember 19, 2016Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America[34] [35]
Directors Guild of America AwardsFebruary 4, 2017Outstanding Directorial Achievement in DocumentaryEzra Edelman[36]
Florida Film Critics CircleDecember 23, 2016Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[37]
Dorian AwardsJanuary 26, 2017Documentary of the YearO.J.: Made in America[38]
Georgia Film Critics AssociationJanuary 13, 2017Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America[39] [40]
Best PictureO.J.: Made in America
Gotham AwardsNovember 28, 2016Best DocumentaryEzra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow, Tamara Rosenberg,
Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Erin Leyden,
and Connor Schell
[41]
Audience AwardEzra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow, Tamara Rosenberg,
Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Erin Leyden,
and Connor Schell
Houston Film Critics SocietyJanuary 6, 2017Best Documentary FeatureO.J.: Made in America[42]
Independent Spirit AwardsFebruary 25, 2017Best Documentary FeatureEzra Edelman[43]
IndieWire Critics PollDecember 2016Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[44]
Best EditingBret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski
Best FilmO.J.: Made in America
International Cinephile SocietyFebruary 19, 2017Best Documentary O.J.: Made in America[45]
December 9, 2016Best FeatureEzra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow, Tamara Rosenberg,
Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Erin Leyden,
and Connor Schell
[46] [47]
Los Angeles Film Critics AssociationDecember 4, 2016Best EditingBret Granato, Maya Mumma, and Ben Sozanski [48]
Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America
MTV Movie & TV AwardsMay 7, 2017Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[49]
National Board of ReviewNovember 29, 2016Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America[50]
National Society of Film CriticsJanuary 7, 2017Best Non-Fiction FilmO.J.: Made in America[51]
New York Film Critics CircleJanuary 3, 2017Best Non-Fiction FilmO.J.: Made in America[52]
New York Film Critics OnlineDecember 11, 2016Top Films of the YearO.J.: Made in America[53]
Online Film Critics SocietyJanuary 3, 2017Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America[54] [55]
Best PictureO.J.: Made in America
Peabody AwardsMay 20, 2017DocumentaryESPN Films and Laylow Films[56] [57]
Philadelphia Film FestivalOctober 20–30, 2016Audience Award O.J.: Made in America[58]
Primetime Emmy AwardsSeptember 17, 2017Exceptional Merit in Documentary FilmmakingEzra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow, Tamara Rosenberg,
Nina Krstic, Libby Geist, and Connor Schell
[59]
Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction ProgrammingEzra Edelman (Episode: "Part 3")
Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction ProgramNick Higgins (Episode: "Part 4")
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction ProgramBret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski (Episode: "Part 4")
Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or SpecialGary Lionelli (Episode: "Part 2")
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction ProgramKeith Hodne and Eric Di Stefano (Episode: "Part 2")
Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 28, 2017Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion PicturesEzra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow[60]
San Diego Film Critics SocietyDecember 12, 2016Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[61]
San Francisco Film Critics CircleDecember 11, 2016Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America[62]
Satellite AwardsFebruary 19, 2017Best Documentary FilmO.J.: Made in America[63]
Seattle Film Critics SocietyJanuary 5, 2017Best DocumentaryEzra Edelman[64]
TCA AwardsAugust 5, 2017Outstanding Achievement in News and InformationO.J.: Made in America[65] [66]
Vancouver Film Critics CircleJanuary 9, 2017Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[67]
Village Voice Film PollDecember 2016Best Documentary O.J.: Made in America[68]
Best FilmO.J.: Made in America
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics AssociationDecember 5, 2016Best DocumentaryO.J.: Made in America[69] [70]

See also

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