Short lists announced for Oscars
 

Not from the bigger categories (Picture, director, acting etc)
Highlighting just the best documentary and best foreign film races for now.
Best documentary:
“Advocate”
“American Factory”
“The Apollo”
“Apollo 11”
“Aquarela”
“The Biggest Little Farm”
“The Cave”
“The Edge of Democracy”
“For Sama”
“The Great Hack”
“Honeyland”
“Knock Down the House”
“Maiden”
“Midnight Family”
“One Child Nation”

Best International Feature Film:
Czech Republic, “The Painted Bird”
Estonia, “Truth and Justice”
France, “Les Misérables”
Hungary, “Those Who Remained”
North Macedonia, “Honeyland”
Poland, “Corpus Christi”
Russia, “Beanpole”
Senegal, “Atlantics”
South Korea, “Parasite”
Spain, “Pain and Glory”

Nominations will be announced January 13.
No surprise at Parasite being among them. It’s really their award to lose.
Any thoughts on these films for those who have seen them?

Not yet, but documentary short list is always a great category for recommendations.


Parasite - likely going to run away with a nomination.


Documentary -
Apollo 11 - I'd be surprised if this gets nomination, it lacks a narrative and really only works on IMAX but it's visually spell binding.


Maiden - I saw it, typical SJW film-making oh look women are just as good as men. Predictable and glossy I didn't care for it,

No kidding. :rolleyes:

Re: Short lists announced for Oscars
 

Yeah, I only got into documentaries this past year sadly, as I wanted to expand my film experience some and I’ve read a lot of great reviews concerning them on Ebert's page.

I’ve found about 6 or 7 past short lists tha I’ve written down for future viewing as well as various ones I’ve heard of over the years.

I would be very upset if Won't You Be My Neighbor? isn't nominated in the feature length documentary category, a category I usually don't care about, but I LOVED this film, I rated it . Two other MoFos reviewed it and gave it the same rating, Here's a link to my review:


https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/...-neighbor.html

I agree it was a five star film...but it came out last year and didn't make the final cut


“Charm City”
“Communion”
“Crime + Punishment”
“Dark Money”
“The Distant Barking of Dogs”
“Free Solo”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Minding the Gap”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“On Her Shoulders”
“RBG”
“Shirkers”
“The Silence of Others”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

Won't You Be My Neighbor? was released and NOT nominated for Best Documentary.in 2018, even if I would have personally nominated it for Best Picture.

same