[Movies] Bully Among Fifteen Potential Oscar Documentary Nominees
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 12.03.2012
The short list is revealed...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the fifteen films that remain in the running for Best Documentary at the 85th Academy Awards. The Academy noted that 126 features had originally qualified, with the following list being the final fifteen:
* Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Never Sorry LLC)
* Bully (The Bully Project LLC)
* Chasing Ice (Exposure)
* Detropia (Loki Films)
* Ethel (Moxie Firecracker Films)
* 5 Broken Cameras (Guy DVD Films)
* The Gatekeepers (Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil)
* The House I Live In (Charlotte Street Films, LLC)
* How to Survive a Plague (How to Survive a Plague LLC)
* The Imposter (Imposter Pictures Ltd.)
* The Invisible War (Chain Camera Pictures)
* Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Jigsaw Productions in association with Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films)
* Searching for Sugar Man (Red Box Films)
* This Is Not a Film (Wide Management)
* The Waiting Room (Open'hood, Inc.)
The Documentary Branch of the Academy viewed all the eligible documentaries for the preliminary voting round and will now select five nominees from the fifteen films remaining. The nominations will be announced on January 10th, 2013.
