A whopping 124 documentary features made are eligible to contend for the Oscars this year. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences released the list of films submitted to compete in the Best Documentary Feature category. Among the entries included is Asif Kapadia’s Amy, a documentary centering around the late Amy Winehouse. A critical and commercial hit (the film ranks as the top grossing documentary of the year in the U.S.), it will be interesting to see if the film can crack the often hard to read Documentary branch of the Academy.
Other films included are Davis Guggenheim’s He Named Me Malala, profile on Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence (a semi-sequel to his Oscar nominated 2013 doc The Act of Killing) and Michael Moore’s eagerly anticipated Where to Invade Next (Moore won the Oscar for 2002’s Bowling for Columbine). Alex Gibney, nother past winner is back in the fold with not one but two films: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Last year, Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour (a film centering around Edward Snowden) won the documentary Academy Award.
From the list of 124 eligible titles, fifteen will be shortlisted sometime in December- five of those shortlisted will become Oscar nominees when nominations are announced on January 14th. Take a look at all the title eligible below:
- 3 1/1 Minutes, Ten Bullets
- 1971
- Above and Beyond
- All Things Must Pass
- Amy
- The Armor of Light
- Ballet 422
- Batkid Begins
- Becoming Bulletproof
- Being Evel
- Beltracchi – The Art of Forgery
- Best of Enemies
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
- Bolshoi Babylon
- Brand: A Second Coming
- A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
- Call Me Lucky
- Cartel Land
- Censored Voices
- Champs
- CodeGirl
- Coming Home
- Dark Horse
- Deli Man
- Dior and I
- The Diplomat
- (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies
- Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
- Dreamcatcher
- dream/killer
- Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
- Eating Happiness
- Every Last Child
- Evidence of Harm
- Farewell to Hollywood
- Finders Keepers
- The Forecaster
- Frame by Frame
- Gardeners in Eden
- A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile
- Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
- He Named Me Malala
- Heart of a Dog
- Hitchcock/Truffaut
- How to Change the World
- Human
- The Hunting Ground
- I Am Chris Farly
- In Jackson Heights
- In My Father’s House
- India’s Daughter
- Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words
- Iraqi Odyssey
- Iris
- Janis: Little Girl Blue
- Karski & the Lords of Humanity
- Killing Them Softly
- Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
- Lambert & Stamp
- A LEGO Brickumentary
- Listen to Me Marlon
- Live from New York!
- The Look of Silence
- Meet the Petels
- Meru
- The Mind of Mark DeFrist
- Misery Loves Comedy
- Monkey Kingdom
- A Murder in the Park
- My Italian Secret
- Of Men and War
- One Cut, One Life
- Only the Dead See the End of War
- The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
- Peace Officer
- The Pearl Button
- Pink & Blue: Colors of Hereditary Cancer
- Poached
- Polyfaces
- The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers
- Prophet’s Prey
- Racing Extinction
- The Resurrection of Jake the Snake
- Ride the Thunder – A Veitnam War Story of Victory & Betrayal
- Rosenwald
- The Russian Woodpecker
- Searching for Home: Coming Back from War
- Seeds of Time
- Sembene!
- The Seven Five
- Seymour: An Introduction
- Sherpa
- A Sinner in Mecca
- Something Better to Come
- Song from the Forest
- Song of Lahore
- Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
- Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
- Stray Dog
- Sunshine Superman
- Sweet Micky for President
- Tab Hunter Confidential
- The Tainted Veil
- Tap World
- (T)error
- Thao’s Library
- Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
- The Touch of an Angel
- TransFatty Lives
- The True Cost
- Twinsters
- Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists
- The Wanted 18
- We Are Many
- We Come as Friends
- We Were Not Just…Bicycle Thieves. Neorealism
- Welcome to Leith
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
- What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
- Where to Invade Next
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
- The Wolfpack
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