shortlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their doc­u­mentary short­list yes­terday. Here are the 15 films selected:

• At the Death House Door (review)
• The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
• Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Seneesh
• Encounters at the End of the World
• Fuel
• The Garden
• Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
• I.O.U.S.A.
• In a Dream
• Made in America
• Man on Wire (review)
• Pray the Devil Back to Hell
• Standard Operating Procedure
• They Killed Sister Dorothy
• Trouble the Water (review)

Though I’ve seen just three of the nom­in­ated films so far, I’m pretty con­fident saying I’d be bit­terly dis­ap­pointed if Man on Wire fails to win the Oscar. Like some other com­ment­ators, I’m sur­prised and a bit let down that Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze (review) wasn’t shortlisted.

Documentarian AJ Schnack (Kurt Cobain: About a Son) is breaking these down over on his excel­lent blog, All These Wonderful Things.

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