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Sicko, Iraq Docs Vie for Oscar
HMOs, abortion and war—just another day in the doc world.
Films featuring those subjects of documentaries have made the shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature for the 80th Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.
Leading the pack is Sicko, the controversial health-care exposé from Oscar winner Michael Moore, and the highest grossing documentary of the year.
Of the 14 other documentaries to make the first cut, eight focus on violent conflicts and four of those explicitly deal with America's current wars in the Middle East.
They include: No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson's study of the U.S. occupation of Iraq; Body of War, talk-show host Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro's story of a paralyzed Iraq war vet who evolves into an outspoken critic of the war; Taxi to the Darkside, Alex Gibney's examination of America's use of torture in the war in Afghanistan through the death of an innocent taxi driver in 2002; and Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, soldiers' first-person accounts of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Also in the running are Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman's Nanking, a chronicle of Japan's brutal 1937 occupation of China infamously known as "the rape of Nanking; White Light/Black Rain, Steven Okazaki's history of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; The Rape of Europa, Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen and Nicole Newnham's tale of Nazi destruction of major artworks; and War Dance, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix's story of Ugandan child refugees who compete in a national music and dance festival.
Tony Kaye's critically acclaimed Lake of Fire, explores both sides of the abortion debate, while the role of gays and religion is examined in Daniel Karslake's highly praised For the Bible Tells Me So.
Rounding out the list: Autism: The Musical, about five autistic children who stage a show; A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman, a profile of the playwright-activist who survived the 1973 military coup of Chilean President Salvadore Allende; Please Vote for Me, following eight-year-old Chinese children holding a class election; and The Price of Sugar, about the lives of Haitian workers.
Notably absent from the shortlist is last year's Sundance Audience Award winner, In the Shadow of the Moon, an account of NASA's Apollo space program as told by the astronauts who traveled there. Also MIA: Jonathan Demme's Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains, which followed the former President's recent book tour, when he took heat for his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; The King of Kong, about diehard videogamers; The Devil Came on Horseback, about the crisis in Darfur; and Amir Bar-Lev's My Kid Could Paint That, about a child who may or may not be an artistic prodigy.
Also overlooked was The 11th Hour, the doc produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio about climate change.
The Motion Picture Academy's documentary committee will ultimately select five of these films to compete for Oscar. The nominations will be unveiled Jan. 22, with the ceremony airing live on ABC Feb. 24.
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