Defending Our Lives
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Defending Our Lives is a 1993 short documentary film
directed by Margaret Lazarus
and Renner Wunderlich
. It won an Academy Award at the 66th Academy Awards
in 1994 for Documentary Short Subject
.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Margaret Lazarus
Margaret Lazarus
Margaret Lazarus is an American film producer/film director known for her work in documentary film. She and her partner, Renner Wunderlich, received an Academy Award in 1993 for their documentary Defending Our Lives, about battered women who were in prison for killing their abusers.- Biography...
and Renner Wunderlich
Renner Wunderlich
Renner Wunderlich is an American film producer/film director known for his work in documentary film. He and his partner, Margaret Lazarus, received an Academy Award in 1993 for their documentary Defending Our Lives, about battered women who were in prison for killing their abusers...
. It won an Academy Award at the 66th Academy Awards
66th Academy Awards
The 66th Academy Awards were presented March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy Crystal who had hosted the...
in 1994 for Documentary Short Subject
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
.
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, a documentary