The Academy Award Shortlist Has Been Announced and ITVS Couldn't Be Happier!
What a week for ITVS! First the Sundance Film Festival announced the lineup for 2013, then Time Magazine showed Invisible War some love in their “Top Movies of 2012”, the National Board of Review listed three ITVS funded films in their “Top 5 Documentaries”, and now the Academy Award shortlist is out!
Before anyone walks down any red carpets or starts penning acceptance speeches, the Academy names a number of films (15 to be exact!) to advance in order to help narrow down the voting process for Best Documentary Feature. With over 126 films in contention for the Oscar, ITVS is more than a little excited to see some very familiar titles on the Academy Award shortlist:
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- Bully
- Chasing Ice
- Detropia
- Ethel
- 5 Broken Cameras
- Gatekeepers
- The House I Live In
- How to Survive a Plague
- The Imposter
- The Invisible War
- Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
- Searching for Sugar Man
- This Is Not a Film
- The Waiting Room
The field will be narrowed to five titles when the Oscar nominations are announced in early January.
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