We pointed to a story in the Wall Street Journal late last year on the Oscar’s issues with Documentary Films. Well, there’s a group of filmmakers and film festival programmers who have decided that Documentary Films deserve more. From AJ Schnack’s blog
Why should an artist of any stripe put focus and effort into the whims of organizations that have proven over time to be more interested in recognizing the right cause rather than the best filmmaking. I suppose its a little like whining when the American Music Awards doesn’t do the right thing.
But this year doesn’t seem like an oversight. It seems like a deliberate, purposeful choice. After all the hand-wringing over Oscar qualifying rules that mandated a true theatrical release, the Academy first reverses completely, eliminating requirements for a rollout and then names a Shortlist littered with films made by and for and of television.
It’s as if the Academy’s grand experiment to select only true theatrical releases has been called off.
Here’s the original announcement
Here’s the site to track the awards and here’s a link to the Indiewire story noting the 15 films that have been shortlisted.
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