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“Martha” nominated for Realscreen’s Non-Fiction Arts & Culture Award
“Martha” nominated for the 2026 Realscreen Awards in Non-Fiction - Arts & Culture
Martha, Billie, and Anna: Portraits by R.J. Cutler
Join us at the Paris Theater August 12 + 13 for our series MARTHA, BILLIE & ANNA: Portraits by R.J. Cutler, in celebration of MARTHA's two Emmy nominations!
Aug 12, THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE screens on 35mm + intro by former Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington.
Aug 13, MARTHA will be followed by Q&A with R.J. Cutler!
“Martha” included on the 2025 Grierson Awards longlist for Best Popular Culture Documentary
“Martha” included on the 2025 Grierson Awards longlist
Episode 226: Martha Stewart, Alice Waters, John Williams
Our Emmy contender conversations conclude with a look at three stand out biographies. Host Thom Powers interviews these directors:
R.J. Cutler on "Martha" (Netflix)
David Gelb with cinematographer Adam Bricker on "Chef's Table: Legends" (Netflix)
Laurent Bouzereau on "Music By John Williams" (Disney+)
Recorded live in Los Angeles at Documentary Spotlight, co-presented by The Ankler.
Martha Stewart on Her Netflix Doc and What She Wants to Focus on in Her Next Autobiographical Project
“This story is about equality, about women being able to stand up for themselves and do what they want to do,” she says of the R.J. Cutler-directed documentary.
Martha Stewart on Why She Chose to Work With ‘Martha’ Filmmaker R.J. Cutler: ‘I Didn’t Want Some Namby-Pamby, Ralph Lauren Documentary’
“I didn’t want some namby-pamby, Ralph Lauren documentary,” Martha Stewart declared Monday night in Beverly Hills as she and filmmaker R.J. Cutler sat for an FYC event on the outdoor deck of the Maybourne Hotel to tout the Netflix docu “Martha.”
Always a Girlboss, Never a Tradwife
A new Netflix documentary explores the cost of Martha Stewart’s chase for domestic perfection.
Martha Stewart’s Empire Monetized More Than Just Domesticity
A new documentary reminds us that the lifestyle guru was also selling the pleasure of mastery.
Was Martha Stewart Really the Original Influencer?
“Martha,” a new documentary now on Netflix, offers a candid portrait of the rise and fall (and rebirth?) of the homemaker extraordinaire, who last year, at 81, appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
‘Martha’ Stokes a Debate: What’s a Documentary, Anyway?
As a vérité filmmaker for the past 31 years, Mr. Cutler has tackled a wide variety of subjects, from politics (“The World According to Dick Cheney”) to Vogue magazine (“The September Issue”) to e-cigarettes (“Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul”). He has been nominated for an Oscar. He has won three Emmys, including one for “American High,” a docuseries that tracked 14 high school students over a year.
"Martha" presents a side of Martha Stewart we haven't seen before: hers, in her voice
Under R.J. Cutler's direction, the influential icon tells her story honestly, albeit with a high-sheen polish.
‘Martha’ Review: Martha Stewart Unplugged In Candid And Surprising Tell-All Netflix Documentary
When I set out to see R.J. Cutler‘s new documentary, Martha, quite frankly I wasn’t focusing on it other than just another screening I had, and that it would be all about Martha Stewart. So I expected it would be mostly gardening, cooking and setting the perfect dinner-party table.
Martha Stewart is an ‘unreliable narrator’ but also ‘a visionary,’ documentary director says
The way Martha Stewart sees it, her life story is pretty simple. “Here’s this girl from a family of eight in Nutley, N.J., living modestly, who gets a good idea, builds it into something really fine and profits from it,” she says in “Martha,” a documentary premiering Wednesday on Netflix. Then, Stewart continues, she “falls in a hole” and has to climb out of it.
Martha Stewart’s American Dream
Let’s play a game: What do you think of when you think of Martha Stewart? Her unlikely friendship with Snoop Dogg? A pre-#tradwife trad wife? A daytime television personality who served jail time? Something else entirely?
In Netflix doc, Martha Stewart looks back at her triumphant highs, humiliating lows
Tracing her arc from model to stockbroker to author to TV personality to inmate, film comes close to achieving the level of perfection famously demanded by the lifestyle maven.
We Had Martha Stewart Wrong All Along
Long before Instagram and TikTok existed as places for us to stoke our insecurities, there was Martha Stewart.
Netflix Lands Martha Stewart Documentary From ‘Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry’ Director R.J. Cutler
Netflix has emerged the winner of a bake-off for a documentary about the life and times of media mogul Martha Stewart. Oscar-nominated director R.J. Cutler had been shopping a sizzle reel of the all-access look at the history of America’s preeminent hostess in recent weeks. Netflix closed the deal late last week, according to insiders.