In the opening moments of the Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher” — which took home a 2021 Oscar for best documentary feature — an octopus glides overhead while the soothing voice of filmmaker ...

Craig Foster interacts with an octopus in a scene from the documentary "My Octopus Teacher." (Netflix via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — “My Octopus Teacher,” the tale of an eight-limbed creature and her human ...

In the category of Best Feature Documentary, My Octopus Teacher was up against some steep competition, including Crip Camp, a film about disability activists produced by none other than Barack and ...

One of the oddest relationships you’ll see on screen this year is the one between South African filmmaker and diver Craig Foster and the octopus he befriended while diving in the Great African Sea ...

misstated who directed the film “My Octopus Teacher.” The directors of the film are Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed. Foster is known for his Oscar-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher.” In his new ...

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What “Charlotte’s Web” did in the popular imagination for the humble, much-maligned barn spider, “My Octopus Teacher” sets out to achieve for the eight-limbed mollusc of its title — a creature of ...

“A unique story of connection” is how South African filmmaker and naturalist Craig Foster refers to his underwater adventures with a female wild common octopus documented in the film “My Octopus ...

There’s a chase scene in My Octopus Teacher as suspenseful as anything in a Hollywood thriller. The film’s heroine, a tentacled cephalopod, is being pursued by a pajama shark through a kelp forest off ...

Off the coast of the UK, fishermen and marine biologists are witnessing something not seen in generations. Sightings of the ...

Admittedly, I wasn’t particularly interested in octopuses – yes, that is the correct plural form – until about a year ago. I’d heard about them here and there, mainly their intelligence, but I’ve ...