The Best Documentary Oscar category was unusually strong this year and as much as I loved Man on Wire it was almost sad to see it steamroll the other worthy documentaries including The Betrayal, Encounters at the End of the World and Trouble the Water – especially when you consider an Oscar is about the [...]

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The mysterious body that chooses the pool of potential documentary feature nominees for the Oscars every year probably stepped in another flaming bag of poo yesterday with the release of this year’s short list.
The effusive praise heaped upon Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father by critics, bloggers and audiences alike has gone [...]

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