Agee (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

• 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

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

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

References

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

• Agee at IMDb
• AllMovie