As we head into game awards season – IGN’s Best of 2024 Awards and many others – as always there’s plenty of talk of surprise nominations and winners, snubs and unforeseen upsets.

The DOX:Award, the festival’s top prize, went to Always, the directorial debut of Deming Chen. The film tells the story of a young poet, 8-year-old Youbin, who lives “deep in the lush ...

She said efforts to win the award go back more than a decade. “With a vision to be America’s premier community, we’ve always done things a little differently and have not behaved like a ...