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18 November 2004 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it had narrowed the list of documentaries eligible for Oscar nominations down to 12. Conspicuously absent from the list were any of the numerous politically oriented documentaries that turned up during the year. Although Michael Moore had previously announced that he would not enter his Fahrenheit 9/11 in the documentary competition so that it could compete in the best film category, other politically-charged documentaries that aroused controversy during the year were also absent, including Control Room, about the Arab news channel Al-Jazeera; OutFoxed, about Fox News Channel; Uncovered: The War on Iraq; The Hunting of the President, about the campaign in impeach Bill Clinton; Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry; and the anti-Kerry film, Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal. The omissions appeared even more striking given the Academy's vote to award last year's best documentary Oscar to Errol Morris's controversial The Fog of War, in which former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's reflected on the Vietnam war. The twelve films in contention are: Born Into Brothels, Home of the Brave, Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, In the Realms of the Unreal, Riding Giants, The Ritchie Boys, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Super Size Me, Tell Them Who You Are, Touching the Void, Tupac: Resurrection, and Twist of Faith. »

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