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Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature Nominees: Searching for Sugar Man (dir. Malik Bendjelloul) How to Survive a Plague (dir. David France) The Invisible War (dir. Kirby Dick) 5 Broken Cameras (dir. Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi) The Gatekeepers (dir. Dror Moreh) Almost all of the categories are … Continue reading

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Best Feature Documentary Oscar Shortlist

This would have been an excellent list of nonfiction selections had The Central Park Five not been inexplicably left out. I guess it wouldn’t be the Documentary Oscar category without a few egregious snubs (see: Steve James). I need to … Continue reading

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Cinema Eye Honors

There’s little parity between this year’s Cinema Eye nominations and the recently announced IDA noms. This kind of discrepancy is typical in the documentary world for many reasons, mostly diversity of opinions amongst groups, but also eligibility requirements and release … Continue reading

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IDA Noms Solidify Documentary Favorites

Usually we can count on the International Documentary Association awards shedding new light on some relatively unknown non-fiction films. This year the nominations line up pretty closely with those that I was already anticipating, with Searching for Sugar Man and … Continue reading

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