Project Nim

Project Nim

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Love Of Animals | Wild Animal

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  • Genre(s): Documentary
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): James Marsh
  • Cast(s): Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard
  • Duration: 1h 33min
  • Music: Dickon Hinchliffe
  • Award(s): HFCS 2011 (Won)
    BAFTA Film 2012 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Plastic Detox, Queen of Chess
  • Story:
    From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Ratings

7.4/10

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AWARDS

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Won
HFCS Award

Best Documentary Feature | 2011

IFJA Award

Best Documentary | 2011

Sierra Award

Best Documentary | 2011

Achievement Award

Outstanding Achievement in Documentary | 2011 | James

SDFCS Award

Best Documentary | 2011

SEFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2011

BSFC Award

Best Documentary | 2011 | James

ACCA Award

Best Documentary Feature | 2011

Directing Award

World Cinema Documentary | 2011 | James

True Vision Award

Documentary | 2011 | James

NBR Award

Top Five Documentaries | 2011

DGA Award

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary | 2012 | James

Gold Derby Film Award

Documentary Feature | 2012 | James

IFC Award

Best Movie Yet to Open in Iowa | 2012

OFTA Film Award

Best Documentary Feature Film | 2012

FFCC Award

Best Documentary | 2011

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Nominations
BAFTA Film Award

Best Documentary Film | 2012 | James

Grand Jury Prize Award

World Cinema Documentary | 2011 | James

Knight Dox Competition | 2011 | James

Emmy Award

Outstanding Science and Technology Programming | 2013

Best Documentary | 2013

Humanitas Prize Award

Documentaries Special Awards Category | 2013 | James

OFCS Award

Best Documentary | 2012

PGA Award

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures | 2012 | Simon

VFCC Award

Best Documentary | 2012

ALFS Award

Documentary of the Year | 2012

EDA Award

Best Documentary Feature Film | 2012 | James

AFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2012

COFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2012

Cinema Eye Honors Award

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking | 2012 | Simon

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation | 2012 | Kinda

Critics Choice Award

Best Documentary Feature | 2012

DFCS Award

Best Documentary Film | 2012

Evening Standard British Film Award

Best Documentary | 2012 | James

INOCA Award

Best Documentary | 2012 | James

DFWFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2011

DFCC Award

Best Documentary | 2011

CFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2011

PFCS Award

Best Documentary | 2011

Satellite Award

Best Motion Picture Documentary | 2011

British Independent Film Award

Best Documentary | 2011

ICP Award

Best Documentary | 2011

UFCA Award

Best Documentary Feature Film | 2011

WAFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2011

TRIVIA

Trivia

Veteran primate choreographer and actor Peter Elliott actually met and worked with Nim Chimpsky when he was researching chimpanzees for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). He also met and worked with another famous signing chimp by the name of Washoe.

As of 2019, this has been James Marsh's last documentary. Since Project Nim (2011), he has enjoyed a run of well-received feature films like Shadow Dancer (2012), The Theory of Everything (2014) and The Mercy (2018).

James Marsh became interested in the story of Nim when his Man on Wire (2008) producer Simon Chinn brought Elizabeth Hess' book to his attention. Marsh was particularly interested in telling a story that was devoted to the life of an animal.

James Mahoney, the chief vet at the laboratory where Nim spent some of his later years, was very reluctant to be involved in the film, given that this period was probably the most traumatic for Nim during his 26-year life. He was convinced by director James Marsh that he would not be depicted as the film's villain as Marsh had no interest in getting into the minefield subject of animal rights.

For reference points, director James Marsh watched other animal-focused documentaries and features, like Barbet Schroeder's Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978), Frederick Wiseman's Primate (1974) and Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966).