Agee (film)

Agee is a 1980 American documentary film about the writer and film critic James Agee directed and produced by Ross Spears. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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

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.

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

External links

• AllMovie