Best Documentary
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As one of the editors and producers, Martin Scorsese’s job was to sit on a nine-foot-wide platform just to the right. Simply put, Scorsese and company were filming a documentary about the festival. The four-hour film would go on to win Best Documentary at the Academy Awards in 1970.
Since then, it has been re-released several times and added concert footage with extras. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh, who worked with Scorsese and film editor Thelma Schoonmaker to be the supervising editor. Scorsese and Schoonmaker have remained a director/editor team to this day.
