The Oscar for live-action short went to “The Neighbors’ Window,” a story about the intersection of voyeurism and empathy. “I want to dedicate this to my mom, who grew up on a peach farm in Chesterfield, South Carolina,” said writer-director Marshall Curry, a four-time nominee, from the Oscar stage. “This woman became obsessed with watching her neighbors,” he previously told The Times, noting his film also took the podcast’s primary plot twist, but everything else in “Window” is invention. Advertisement“When I’m directing a documentary, I do a first pass of the edit, and then we work hard to make it feel like a fiction film. When I was working on this, I worked hard to make it feel like a documentary.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 10, 2020 01:52 UTC