Agee (film)

1980 film

Agee

Film poster

Directed by| Ross Spears
Written by| Ross Spears
Produced by| Jude Cassidy
Ross Spears
Cinematography| Anthony Forma

Production
company

James Agee Film Project

Distributed by| First Run Features

Release date

* November 14, 1980 (1980-11-14) (New York City)

Running time

| 98 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Agee is a 1980 American documentary film[1] about the writer and film critic James Agee[2] directed and produced by Ross Spears.[3] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[4]

## Cast

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* James Agee \- Himself (archive footage)
* Mia Agee - Herself
* Mae Burroughs - Herself
* Jimmy Carter \- Himself
* Walker Evans \- Himself (voice)
* Robert Fitzgerald \- Himself
* James Flye - Himself
* John Huston \- Himself
* Dwight Macdonald \- Himself
* Earl McCarroll - James Agee (voice)
* Alma Neuman - Herself
* Robert Saudek \- Himself
* Elizabeth Tingle - Herself
* Olivia Wood - Herself[5]

## Reception and accolades

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Agee was well received by critics and the film community to the point of receiving a nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 53rd Academy Awards and winning the Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film Festival.[6][7]

## See also

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* Life Itself-2014 documentary film by Steve James about Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert
* Classical Hollywood cinema
* 1980 in film

## References

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1. ^ TV Guide
2. ^ The Awkward Agee|Jonathan Rosenbaum
3. ^ 1981|Oscars.org
4. ^ MUBI
5. ^ TCM.com
6. ^ Documentary Winners: 1981 Oscars
7. ^ Agee Archived August 21, 2019, at the Wayback Machine at the James Agee Film Project/Agee Films

## External links

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* Agee at IMDb
* AllMovie