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His coming-of-age documentary, Minding the Gap<\/a>, premiered at 2018\u2019s Sundance Film Festival to universal acclaim, taking home the special jury prize for breakthrough filmmaking. The aforementioned praise would eventually stretch well beyond the festival circuit as the film still holds a perfect mark on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. 2018 would end with the first of several more exclamation points, beginning with former President Barack Obama<\/a>\u2018s selection of Liu<\/a>\u2019s doc as one of his favorite films of 2018.<\/p>\n Then, in 2019, Liu received an Oscar nomination for best documentary, as well as a Peabody Award. Thus, it\u2019s easy to see why he hasn\u2019t lost that surreal feeling in present day.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m still waking up a little bit. It was absolutely insane. This is going to sound weird, but I started a gratitude journal…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Understandably, Bing Liu is still on cloud nine over his storybook run at the end of the 2010s. His coming-of-age documentary, Minding the Gap, premiered at 2018\u2019s Sundance Film Festival to universal acclaim, taking home the special jury prize for breakthrough filmmaking. The aforementioned praise would eventually stretch well beyond the festival circuit as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1998026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Preparation-for-the-Next-Life-Filmmaker-Bing-Liu-on-His.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}