The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expects people to pick films for Oscar Consideration. I mean, in 2002, there were 279 Feature Films eligible for consideration for an Oscar.
The race for documentary films is even broader, this year, there were 82 documentaries eligible for consideration, and the Academy has narrowed the list down to 15. Normally, the documentary film categories just has people staring blankly at their Oscar Pool ballots, trying to make a pick from films that most people have never heard of.
This year, however, there are a few films that have made the first cut. Most notably is MARCH OF THE PENGUINS, which I reviewed a while back on this blog. Other notable films that made the cut are: Mad Hot Ballroom, which followed New York City school children learning and competing in a ballroom dancing competition, along with Murderball, which detailed the lives of quadriplegics who play a form of wheelchair rugby, and Rize, photographer and video director David LaChapelle's look into the dance world of krumping.
This list of 15 films will be narrowed down to 5, when the final nominations are announced January 31.
The story in my last post is still open. Anyone can contribute.
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