Questlove’s Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) won the Oscar for Best Original Documentary at the 94th Academy Awards. His directorial debut won over Attica, Flee, and Writing With Fire. He shares the award with producers Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein.
Summer of Soul won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award when it premiered at Sundance last February, and more recently won Best Documentary at the 2022 Independent Spirit Awards. It’s also up for Best Music Film at this year’s Grammys. Questlove currently has another documentary underway about Sly Stone, and will be a co-producer alongside Mick Jagger on a forthcoming documentary series about James Brown for A&E.
Follow all of Pitchfork’s coverage of the 2022 Oscars, and revisit Pitchfork’s feature “Questlove on Restoring Black Music History and Making One of the Year’s Best Films.”
