🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes The film premiered at the 2014 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature, the festival's highest honor in its category. It was also nominated for the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards and for Best Documentary at the 2014 Gotham Awards. Praised for its nuanced storytelling, the film balances perspectives from affected communities, oil industry workers, and policymakers, establishing itself as a standout in environmental and investigative filmmaking. "Brown seamlessly blends the emotional, intimate stories of people with bigger pictures, using the explosion as the starting point for a ripple effect that just keeps growing." The Washington Post