The motion picture academy has announced the animated, documentary and international features eligible for Oscar consideration.
Some of the animated and documentary contenders have not yet had their required qualifying release.
Each of them must fulfill the requirement to advance in the voting process.In the documentary feature realm, a record 238 docs are among the contenders, crushing the record of 170 submissions from 2017.
Among the pics is Amazon Studios’ “Time,” which won the Los Angeles Film Critics, National Board of Review and New York Film Critics awards for best documentary.
It’s the first film since Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell” to win the big three critics’ prizes.
However, Polley’s film did fail to get a nomination from the Academy.
This also begs the question raised in our most recent round of documentary feature predictions.
Is it time for the branch to expand its nominations from five to 10, as
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