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Motion Picture Academy Announces Short List for Documentary Feature Category

By IDA Editorial Staff


The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards®. One hundred twenty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

   Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,Never Sorry LLC
   Bully, The Bully Project LLC
   Chasing Ice, Exposure
   Detropia, Loki Films
   Ethel, Moxie Firecracker Films
   5 Broken Cameras, Guy DVD Films
   The Gatekeepers, Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil
   The House I Live In, Charlotte Street Films, LLC
   How to Survive a Plague, How to Survive a Plague LLC
   The Imposter, Imposter Pictures Ltd.
   The Invisible War, Chain Camera Pictures
   Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Jigsaw Productions in
       association with Wider Film Projects and Below theRadar Films
   Searching for Sugar Man, Red Box Films
   This Is Not a Film, Wide Management
   The Waiting Room, Open'hood, Inc.

The Documentary Branch viewed the eligible documentaries for the preliminary round of voting. Documentary Branch members will now select the five nominees from among the 15 titles on the shortlist. These titles included IDA Award nominees The Invisible War and Searching for Sugar Man, as well as How to Survive a Plague, whose director, David France, earned IDA's  Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award this year.

The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby TheatreTM at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.