The Oscar Shortlists for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short are out !
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th Academy Awards: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred sixty-nine films were eligible in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
The Bibi Files by Alexis Bloom
Black Box Diaries by Shiori Ito
Dahomey by Mati Diop
Daughters by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
Eno by Gary Hustwit
Frida by Carla Gutierrez
Hollywoodgate Ibrahim Nash'at
No Other Land by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal
Porcelain War by Slava Leontyev, Brendan Bellomo
Queendom by Agniia Galdanova
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin by Benjamin Ree
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez
Sugarcane by Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat
Union by Stephen Maing, Brett Story
Will & Harper by Josh Greenbaum
You can read our review of Black Box Diaries here and our interview with director Shiori Ito here.
Dahomey is also shortlisted for Best International Feature Film, nominated by Senegal.
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred four films qualified in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
Chasing Roo by Skye Fitzgerald
Death by Numbers by Sam Fuentes, Ivy Schamis
Eternal Father by Ömer Sami
I Am Ready, Warden by Smriti Mundhra
Incident by Bill Morrison
Instruments of a Beating Heart by Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Keeper by Angus Benfield, Carrie Keating
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World by Portia Cue
Once upon a Time in Ukraine by Betsy WestKhodakivska Tetiana
The Only Girl in the Orchestra by Jacqui Danilow, David Grossman
Planetwalker by Dominic Gill, Nadia Gill
The Quilters by Jenifer McShane
Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr by Erin Reed, Zooey Zephyr
A Swim Lesson by William Marsh
Until He’s Back by Jacqueline Baylon
For a full list of all the shortlisted films announced, you can follow this link.
