Academy releases Oscar documentary shortlist

15 films vie for the top prize

by Jennie Kermode

Oscar contender Moonage Daydream
Oscar contender Moonage Daydream

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) today announced the list from which the coming year's Oscar nominees will be selected. It includes All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, which has already acquired several other major award nominations - Nan Goldin, Laura Poitras, Harry Cullen and Megan Kapler - recently shared their thoughts on it - and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, which directors Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller discussed with us. Other nominees cover diverse issues from wildlife protection in India to the life and work of David Bowie, the attempted assassination of a Russian opposition figure and the life of the Hmong people in the remote hill country of northern Vietnam.

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Divine transformation Eriko Katagiri on the itako tradition and When You Open The Door

Learning to let go Gloria Mercer and Bethany Brown on filming sex, drugs and A Safe Distance

Framing a feature Michele Fiascaris on expanding his short Rain Catcher into a rain-slicked noir thriller

A heroine of the people Avid Liongoren on the Filipino animation industry and Zsazsa Zaturnnah

The girl who didn't want to be happy Julien Birban Levy on the spirit of Seoul and getting inside the head of Niko

Spirit of the art Takeru Shinozuka and Yoshihide Moriyama on animation and Foxing: Kitsuné-Tsuki

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