Everything about Academy Award For Documentary Feature totally explained
The
Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for
documentary films.
Controversies
The Award for Documentary Feature is arguably the most
controversial of the Academy Awards. Many of the documentaries admired today as the most influential and critically acclaimed were not even nominated: notable examples include
The Thin Blue Line,
Roger & Me, and
Hoop Dreams. The controversy over
Hoop Dreams was enough to force the Academy Awards to change their documentary voting system.
Whether the new rules are successful is still debated, since 2005's
Grizzly Man, a documentary strong enough to appear on many critics' top 10 lists wasn't nominated, and didn't even make the Academy's internally distributed top 15 list. Grizzly Man's exclusion was actually revealed as the result of an Academy rule disqualifying documentary films that are constructed entirely out of archive footage.
In addition, there's continued debate over the role television distribution should play in the selection process. Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 9/11, at the time the highest grossing documentary film ever made, was ineligible because Moore had opted to have it played on television prior to the 2004 Election. Conversely, the 1982 winner
Just Another Missing Kid, directed by
John Zaritsky, was created by editing together footage he originally shot for the Canadian investigative journalism TV show
The Fifth Estate.
Winners and nominees
Following the Academy's practice,
films are listed below by the award year (that is, the year they were released under the Academy's rules for eligibility). In practice, due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete.
1940s
In 1942, there was one Documentary category and four winners.
1950s
1950 -
1951 - Kon-Tiki
1952 - The Sea Around Us
1953 - The Living Desert
1954 - The Vanishing Prairie
1955 - Helen Keller in Her Story
1956 - The Silent World
1957 - Albert Schweitzer
1958 - White Wilderness
1959 - Serengeti Shall Not Die
1960s
1960 - The Horse with the Flying Tail
1961 - Sky Above and Mud Beneath
1962 -
1963 -
1964 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun
1965 - The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
1966 - The War Game
1967 - The Anderson Platoon
1968 - Journey Into Self Note: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey Into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.
1969 - Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life
1970s
1970 - Woodstock
1971 - The Hellstrom Chronicle
1972 - Marjoe, directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan
1973 - The Great American Cowboy by Kieth Merrill
1974 - Hearts and Minds
1975 - The Man Who Skied Down Everest
1976 - Harlan County, USA, directed by Barbara Kopple
1977 - Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
1978 - Scared Straight!
1979 - Best Boy
1980s
1980 directed by Murray Lerner
1981 Genocide directed by Arnold Schwartzman
1982 Just Another Missing Kid directed by John Zaritsky
1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' directed by Emile Ardolino
1984 The Times of Harvey Milk directed by Robert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen
1985 Broken Rainbow directed by Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd
1986 - (tie):
1987 - The Ten-Year Lunch
1988 -
1989 -
1990s
1990 American Dream directed by Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn
1991 In the Shadow of the Stars directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf
1992 The Panama Deception directed by Barbara Trent and David Kasper
1993 directed by Susan Raymond
1994 directed by Freida Lee Mock
1995 Anne Frank Remembered directed by Jon Blair
1996 When We Were Kings directed by Leon Gast
1997 The Long Way Home directed by Mark Jonathan Harris
1998 The Last Days directed by James Moll
1999 One Day in September by Kevin MacDonald
2000s
2000 directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer
2001 Murder on a Sunday Morning directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
2002 Bowling for Columbine directed by Michael Moore
2003 The Fog of War directed by Errol Morris
2004 Born into Brothels directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
2005 March of the Penguins directed by Luc Jacquet
2006 An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
2007 Taxi to the Dark Side directed by Alex Gibney
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