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Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies
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rederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of
social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies
of work in American documentary filmmaking, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 96.

His family announced the death through Zipporah Films, the distribution company he founded in 1971.

Mr. Wiseman, who received an honorary Academy Award in 2016, was among the most influential directors of nonfiction cinema.

He consistently dismissed categorizations of his work. "I like to call
them films" rather than documentaries, he said, because he found the word "documentary" limiting. But he was as closely associated as anyone with
the verite documentary.
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