Oscar Shortlist for Long Documentaries
The long-awaited Short List of feature-length documentaries in consideration for Academy Award nomination was finally released, and here are the lucky 15:
- Client 9:The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Dir.: Alex Gibney; ES Productions LLC)
- Enemies of the People (Dirs.: Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath; Old Street Films) (PHOTO)
- Exit through the Gift Shop (Dir.: Banksy; Paranoid Pictures)
- Gasland (Dir.: Josh Fox; Gasland Productions, LLC)
- Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (Dirs.: Michele Hozer, Peter Raymont; White Pine Pictures)
- Inside Job (Dir.: Charles Ferguson; Representational Pictures)
- The Lottery (Dir.: Madeleine Sackler; Great Curve Films)
- Precious Life (Dir.: Shlomi Eldar; Origami Productions)
- Quest for Honor (Dir.: Mary Ann Smothers Bruni; Smothers Bruni Productions)
- Restrepo (Dirs.: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger; Outpost Films)
- This Way of Life (Dir.: Thomas Burstyn; Cloud South Films)
- The Tillman Story (Dir.: Amir Bar-Lev; Passion Pictures/Axis Films)
- Waiting for ‘Superman’ (Dir.: Davis Guggenheim; Electric Kinney Films)
- Waste Land (Dir.: Lucy Walker; Almega Projects)
- William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (Dirs.: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler; Disturbing the Universe LLC)
The final five, along with three to five films from the Documentary Short Subject Short List, will be announced Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
Several candidates, that have been talked about, especially in Europe, were not selected, like Laura Poitras The Oath, the two Frederick Wiseman films La Danse and Boxing Gym, Janus Metz Armadillo and Joonas Berghäll’s Steam of Life.