In the first such win for the New York Times and its opinion video department Op-Docs, a documentary titled Queen of Basketball – based on the life of women’s basketball pioneer Lusia “Lucy” Harris Stewart – won the 2022 Academy Award in the documentary short subject category. Op-Docs, launched in 2011, has previously been nominated for four other Academy Awards.
Meanwhile, Writing With Fire, a documentary on the rural news network Khabar Lahariya run by Dalit women, lost the best documentary feature award to Summer of Soul – about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride.
