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Terry Zwigoff and Drew Friedman in conversation after CRUMB at Film Forum

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 09, 2026
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Crumb (1995)

The 1995 documentary CRUMB — Terry Zwigoff’s portrait of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his deeply dysfunctional family — was snubbed for an Oscar nomination so conspicuously that it prompted the Academy to overhaul how its members vote for documentary films. The film had won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, the DGA Award, and ever…

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