“Martha” nominated for the 2026 Realscreen Awards in Non-Fiction - Arts & Culture

Join us at the Paris Theater August 12 + 13 for our series MARTHA, BILLIE & ANNA: Portraits by R.J. Cutler, in celebration of MARTHA's two Emmy nominations!

Aug 12, THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE screens on 35mm + intro by former Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington.

Aug 13, MARTHA will be followed by Q&A with R.J. Cutler!

“Martha” included on the 2025 Grierson Awards longlist

Our Emmy contender conversations conclude with a look at three stand out biographies. Host Thom Powers interviews these directors:

R.J. Cutler on "Martha" (Netflix) 

David Gelb with cinematographer Adam Bricker on "Chef's Table: Legends" (Netflix)

Laurent Bouzereau on "Music By John Williams" (Disney+)

Recorded live in Los Angeles at Documentary Spotlight, co-presented by The Ankler.

“This story is about equality, about women being able to stand up for themselves and do what they want to do,” she says of the R.J. Cutler-directed documentary.

“I didn’t want some namby-pamby, Ralph Lauren documentary,” Martha Stewart declared Monday night in Beverly Hills as she and filmmaker R.J. Cutler sat for an FYC event on the outdoor deck of the Maybourne Hotel to tout the Netflix docu “Martha.”

A new Netflix documentary explores the cost of Martha Stewart’s chase for domestic perfection.

A new documentary reminds us that the lifestyle guru was also selling the pleasure of mastery.

“Martha,” a new documentary now on Netflix, offers a candid portrait of the rise and fall (and rebirth?) of the homemaker extraordinaire, who last year, at 81, appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

As a vérité filmmaker for the past 31 years, Mr. Cutler has tackled a wide variety of subjects, from politics (“The World According to Dick Cheney”) to Vogue magazine (“The September Issue”) to e-cigarettes (“Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul”). He has been nominated for an Oscar. He has won three Emmys, including one for “American High,” a docuseries that tracked 14 high school students over a year.

Under R.J. Cutler's direction, the influential icon tells her story honestly, albeit with a high-sheen polish.

When I set out to see R.J. Cutler‘s new documentary, Martha, quite frankly I wasn’t focusing on it other than just another screening I had, and that it would be all about Martha Stewart. So I expected it would be mostly gardening, cooking and setting the perfect dinner-party table.