The estate said in a statement: “For a film that is a complete fiction to be honored in a nonfiction Emmy category is a complete farce.
“Not one shred of proof supports this completely one-sided, so-called documentary which was made in secrecy and for which not one person outside of the two subjects and their families were interviewed.”
However, Reed believes that the five nominations and one win helped to “validate” the documentary, explaining: “It does help to validate the film, [which has] been so controversial.
