Let the race-and parlor games--begin! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.
Among the titles include four that qualified as part of IDA DocuWeeks Showcase this past summer: Garbage Dreams, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mugabe and the White African and Soundtrack for a Revolution.
And among the missing: Afghan Star, Capitalism: A Love Story, The September Issue, We Live in Public, Defamation, Crude and Anvil!: The Story of Anvil.
Here's the complete list:
- The Beaches of Agnes; Agnès Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)
- Burma VJ,; Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)
- The Cove ; Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society)
- Every Little Step; James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment)
- Facing Ali; Pete McCormack, director (Network Films Inc.)
- Food, Inc.; Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films)
- Garbage Dreams; Mai Iskander, director (Iskander Films, Inc.)
- Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders; Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC)
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers; Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, directors (Kovno Communications)
- Mugabe and the White African; Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey, directors (Arturi Films Limited)
- Sergio; Greg Barker, director (Passion Pictures and Silverbridge Productions)
- Soundtrack for a Revolution; Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, directors (Freedom Song Productions)
- Under Our Skin; Andy Abrahams Wilson, director (Open Eye Pictures)
- Valentino The Last Emperor ; Matt Tyrnauer, director (Acolyte Films)
- Which Way Home; Rebecca Cammisa, director (Mr. Mudd)