"The content seems to be a Marmite issue for people: you love it or you hate it," says Fergus O'Brien, the documentary-maker responsible for BBC2's The Armstrongs, a fly-on-the-wall documentary that itself had audiences questioning whether the hilarious titular couple could really be the genuine article.
Jezza Neumann, the documentary-maker responsible for Channel 4's undercover investigation China's Stolen Children, which won best current affairs programme at last month's Bafta television awards, was also recognised twice.
An October 1995 feature quoted Kevin Hull, the BBC documentary maker responsible for the Omnibus item, saying he had found "the boys rather depressed, and almost in a state of shock".
He worked behind the scenes and on screen in numerous documentaries and was responsible for introducing Sir David Attenborough to mountain gorillas in 1978 for the famous BBC Life on Earth sequences and he taught Sigourney Weaver to grunt like a gorilla in 1987 for her award-winning role in the film Gorillas in the Mist.
"It's a notable marker of the way in which documentaries are growing in prominence, both at the festival and in the culture," said Thom Powers, a programmer responsible for documentaries at Toronto.
The 54-name list is believed to have been written by an executive at BBC Knowledge, the department responsible for documentaries and factual programmes.
If the allusions to Jane Austen feel like so much window dressing, then that is a minor flaw in a book that has all the flair and engaging storytelling as the documentaries that Hadlow was responsible for commissioning in her former roles in broadcasting.
MG: What is threatened are the lives and integrity of all of us working in CEDIB and the documentary patrimony we're responsible for.
EVERYDAY IS HALLOWEEN PICK 2. "Nightmare Factory" At AFI Silver Spring A documentary about the man responsible for the zombies in "The Walking Dead," "Day of the Dead," "Evil Dead 2" and other films and television shows where zombies look like zombies, Greg Nicotero.
Clash, who made his debut in 1984 and later received national attention as the subject of the documentary "Being Elmo," is responsible for creating the beloved character as it is known today.
