Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Best Picture, none has yet earned a nomination. Documentaries are ineligible for the other awards such as Best Original Screenplay and Best Director due to their realistic elements. The documentary film "With Byrd at the South Pole: The Story of Little America" (1930), won an oscar for Best Cinematography, at the 3rd Academy Awards, the first documentary to win any kind of Oscar. Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to "Kukan" and "Target for
John Madden (director) films, and graduated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1970 with a B.A. in English literature. He started work in television, including directing Helen Mirren in "Prime Suspect 4," episodes of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (ITV, 1984–1994), and "Inspector Morse". Perhaps his most notable achievement to date was directing "Shakespeare in Love," which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1998, and for which he was also nominated as Best Director. He lost to Steven Spielberg who directed "Saving Private Ryan." The film also won the Silver Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Madden has since directed