{"id":9871,"date":"2010-11-18T21:10:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T21:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2010-11-18T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T23:16:09","slug":"best-documentary-shortlist-announced-oscars-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/11\/18\/best-documentary-shortlist-announced-oscars-academy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Documentary Short list Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9872\" title=\"Best Documentary Longlist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Best-Documentary-Longlist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the 15 films which will compete for the Documentary Feature category at this year&#8217;s Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>The Documentary branch of the academy viewed all the eligible documentaries for the preliminary round of voting and members will now select the five nominees from among the 15 titles below.<\/p>\n<p>The films are listed in alphabetical order by title, along with their director and production company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1638362\/\">Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Alex Gibney (ES Productions LLC)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1568328\/\">Enemies of the People<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath (Old Street Films)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1587707\/\">Exit through the Gift Shop<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Banksy (Paranoid Pictures)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1558250\/\">Gasland<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Josh Fox (Gasland Productions, LLC)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1503774\/\">Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont (White Pine Pictures)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1645089\/\">Inside Job<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Charles Ferguson (Representational Pictures)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1515935\/\">The Lottery<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Madeleine Sackler (Great Curve Films)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1672614\/\">Precious Life<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Shlomi Eldar (Origami Productions)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1334109\/\">Quest for Honor<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Mary Ann Smothers Bruni (Smothers Bruni Productions)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1559549\/\">Restrepo<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (Outpost Films)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1480692\/\">This Way of Life<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Thomas Burstyn (Cloud South Films)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1568334\/\">The Tillman Story<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Amir Bar-Lev (Passion Pictures\/Axis Films)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1566648\/\">Waiting for Superman<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Davis Guggenheim (Electric Kinney Films)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1268204\/\">Waste Land<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Lucy Walker (Almega Projects)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/disturbingtheuniverse.com\/\">William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe<\/a><\/strong> Dir. Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler (Disturbing the Universe LLC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The major omissions would appear to be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/19\/lff-2010-tabloid-errol-morris\/\">Tabloid<\/a> (Dir. Errol Morris), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cave_of_Forgotten_Dreams\">Cave of Forgotten Dreams<\/a> (Dir. Werner Herzog) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1512201\/\">Last Train Home<\/a> (Dir. Lixin Fan).<\/div>\n<p>The nominations are announced live on Tuesday, 25th January and the Oscars themselves follow on Sunday 27th February at the Kodak Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official site for the Oscars<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Documentary_Feature\">Previous winners for Best Documentary at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the 15 films which will compete for Best Documentary at this year&#8217;s Oscars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,34],"tags":[105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}