Calendar – Past Event

February 1-13, 2012

Oscar's Docs, the annual collaboration between the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and MoMA's Department of Film, surveys Oscar nominees and winners in the categories of Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject. Diverging from the previous editions, which included films that documented wartime, social change, and scientific explorations, this fifth edition of Oscar's Docs focuses on the arts and humanities. Examining well-known subjects-Jacques d'Amboise, Arthur Rubinstein, Robert Frost, Saul Bass, and Marc Chagall, among others-established in the fields of music, dance, art, and literature, as well as amateurs and craftsmen, the filmmakers were often first-time producer/directors, inspired by their subjects to use the nonfiction medium as a tool to express their own creativity.