Oasis Documentary Earns Critics Choice Nomination for 2027

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger has earned a nomination for Best Music Documentary at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards.

For context, our Oasis documentary page tracks the reunion film in full, from its cinema run to streaming.

Crucially, the nomination is a nomination only, and it is not a win at this stage.

Winners will be announced on 8 November 2026, at a gala event in Manhattan.

The nomination in full

First, the Critics Choice Association announced the nominations on 13 October 2026 for the 11th annual awards.

The awards honour documentary filmmaking, and the Oasis film competes in the Best Music Documentary category.

In total, the film faces five rival titles in that category, so six films contest the prize.

The rival films

Next, the rival list spans rock, pop and soul subjects, which makes the race a broad music contest.

Earth, Wind and Fire compete with a film about the soul band, while EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert represents Elvis Presley.

Man on the Run follows Paul McCartney, while Peter Asher: Everywhere Man covers the career of Peter Asher.

Sara Bareilles: Good Grief completes the six film field, so the Oasis film must beat five strong rivals.

The film behind the nomination

Meanwhile, Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace directed the Oasis film, which Steven Knight wrote for the screen.

The film follows the Live ‘25 reunion tour, and it draws on rehearsal, backstage and onstage access.

It had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on 5 September 2026, before its cinema run.

It then reached cinemas in September 2026, before streaming from 9 October 2026 on Disney+ and Hulu.

Fans can stream it on Disney+ internationally, and on Hulu and Disney+ in the United States.

Our Disney+ streaming coverage records the streaming launch in detail for fans.

Our missing reunion scene coverage covers a separate talking point about the film.

This article stays focused on the nomination and the awards race, not on those earlier angles.

Why the nomination matters

Still, a nomination from a major critics body gives the film a clear awards marker for the season.

Metacritic lists the film with a score of 81 out of 100, based on 23 critics, which signals broad praise.

Metacritic also lists one Critics Choice Documentary Awards nomination for the film, which matches the announcement.

That critical record helps explain why the film reached this shortlist, and it strengthens the nomination story.

Above all, the nomination keeps Oasis in the awards conversation well beyond the tour itself.

The wider awards context

For fans, the Critics Choice Documentary Awards sit apart from the main Critics Choice Awards in January.

The documentary awards focus only on nonfiction film and television, so music films compete on their own terms.

A win here would give the reunion film a critics prize, but it would not change the tour or the setlist.

A loss would still leave the nomination as a public mark of critical respect for the film.

In short, fans should enjoy the nomination now, and they should wait for 8 November for the result.

Noel Gallagher on stage. Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

What happens next

Next, final voting runs ahead of the 8 November 2026 gala, which takes place at the Edison Ballroom.

Fans should treat 8 November as the decision date, not as a formality or a foregone conclusion.

If the film wins, it will be a winner only from that date onward, and not before.

Until then, every accurate report must call it a nominee, and every headline must do the same.

What it means for Live ‘27 fans

Meanwhile, the nomination arrives as Oasis head toward their second reunion run in summer 2027.

In sales, all 42 Live ‘27 shows sold out in the September 2026 ballot, and no general sale took place.

Only Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher are confirmed by name for Live ‘27, and that fact has not changed.

Our Oasis lineup page covers the band that fans will watch on stage next summer.

The Knebworth guide covers the six night finale in September 2027 for tour fans.

Our Oasis awards page tracks the band’s wider awards history across their career.

Fans still hunting for tickets should use official resale only, at face value, through the Oasis tickets page.

Above all, the nomination gives fans one more date to watch before the tour begins.