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30-540: Score: A Film Music Documentary was one of 170 films considered for the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature . The film won eight awards at film festivals and made $ 101,382 at the US box office before being released as the #1 documentary on iTunes for four weeks straight. Schrader is executive producer of the weekly Score: The Podcast , which interviews leading composers in Hollywood about their craft. Schrader

60-418: A film, he waved a light on the screen. When a majority of flashlights had voted, the film was switched off. Hoop Dreams was stopped after 15 minutes." The academy's executive director, Bruce Davis, took the unprecedented step of asking accounting firm Price Waterhouse to turn over the complete results of that year's voting, in which members of the committee had rated each of the 63 eligible documentaries on

90-581: A follow-up to the story from 1995, The Fifth Estate reported that Hatch had resumed his drifting. He died in 2000. Originally produced by CBC Television for the documentary news program The Fifth Estate , it was broadcast on CBC television to much acclaim in 1981. It was released in theatres in the United States in 1982. It was nominated for several international awards and won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In this film, Zaritsky broke new ground for documentaries by having

120-525: A job as an investigative news producer for CBS News in Sacramento and NBC News in Los Angeles where he won three Emmy Awards for his reports and a Golden Mike Award for editing, before leaving in 2014 to pursue principal photography for Score: A Film Music Documentary . Schrader says he spent $ 11,000 of his own savings to purchase the original camera equipment for Score , before launching

150-410: A scale of six to ten. "What I found," said Davis, "is that a small group of members gave zeros (actually low scores) to every single film except the five they wanted to see nominated. And they gave tens to those five, which completely skewed the voting. There was one film that received more scores of ten than any other, but it wasn't nominated. It also got zeros (low scores) from those few voters, and that

180-623: A successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that raised over $ 120,000 for the film’s production. Distributor Gravitas Ventures acquired Score in January 2017 and released it theatrically June 16, 2017. The film earned $ 101,382 at the US box office and became the #1 documentary on iTunes for four consecutive weeks. After the release of Score , Schrader created the original podcast drama series Blockbuster , which premiered on April 16, 2019. Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

210-427: Is Cinerama , White Wilderness (which also won for Documentary Feature ), Let It Be , and Birds Do It, Bees Do It . Five documentary filmmakers have received honorary Oscars : Pete Smith , William L. Hendricks , D. A. Pennebaker , Frederick Wiseman , and Agnès Varda . Just Another Missing Kid Just Another Missing Kid is a 1981 Canadian documentary film , directed by John Zaritsky , about

240-497: Is an award for documentary films . In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight . They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. Copies of every winning film (along with copies of most nominees) are held by the Academy Film Archive . Following the academy's practice, films are listed below by

270-496: The 3rd Academy Awards , prior to the introduction of a documentary category, With Byrd at the South Pole won the award for Best Cinematography , becoming the first documentary both to be nominated for and win an Oscar. 1952's Navajo would become the first film nominated for both Best Documentary and Best Cinematography. Woodstock was the first documentary to be nominated for Best Film Editing while Hoop Dreams

300-517: The Academy, is it? It's 5% of the Academy." The awards process has also been criticized for emphasizing a documentary's subject matter over its style or quality. In 2009, Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman wrote about the documentary branch members' penchant for choosing "movies that the selection committee deemed good because they're good for you... a kind of self-defeating aesthetic of granola documentary correctness." In 2014, following

330-719: The Documentary Short Subject category) ; Rob Epstein – 2 awards ; Marvin Hier – 2 awards ; Barbara Kopple – 2 awards Mark Jonathan Harris – 2 awards Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 , at the time the highest-grossing documentary film in movie history, was ruled ineligible because Moore had opted to have it played on television prior to the 2004 election. Previously, the 1982 winner Just Another Missing Kid had already been broadcast in Canada and won that country's ACTRA award for excellence in television at

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360-569: The Oscar documentary shortlist exclusions that year, The Hollywood Reporter 's Scott Feinberg reacted to Red Army 's omission: "...no matter which 15 titles the doc branch selected, plenty of other great ones would be left on the outside. That is the case, most egregiously, with Gabe Polsky 's Red Army (Sony Classics), a masterful look at the role of sports in society and Russian-American relations ". ( Icarus , another documentary related to sports and Russian-American relations, later won

390-644: The Oscar.) In 2017, following the win of the eight-hour O.J.: Made in America in this category, the academy announced that multi-part and limited series would be ineligible for the award in the future, even if they are not broadcast after their Oscar-qualifying release (as was O.J.: Made in America ). Various other acclaimed documentaries have not been nominated. Though Academy rules do not expressly preclude documentaries from being nominated in other competitive categories, documentaries are typically considered ineligible for nominations in categories that presume

420-481: The announcement of the shortlist of eligible feature documentary nominees, Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard publicly criticized Academy documentary voters after they excluded SPC's Red Army from the shortlist. "It's a sign of some really old people in the documentary area of the Academy. There's a lot of people who are really up in their years. It's shocking to me that that film ( Red Army ) didn't get in," Bernard said. Additionally, in his reporting of

450-493: 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. Finalists for Best Documentary Feature are selected by the Documentary Branch based on a preliminary ballot. A second preferential ballot determines

480-568: The first documentary and first animated film nominated for Best International Feature Film, although it was not nominated for Best Documentary Feature. The Danish-language animated documentary Flee was later nominated for Best International Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Animated Feature, the first film to accomplish this feat. Nine documentaries have received nominations for Best Original Song : Mondo Cane (for Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero 's " More "), An Inconvenient Truth (for Melissa Etheridge 's " I Need to Wake Up ",

510-463: The five films (including eventual winner Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt ) selected that year as nominees for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. They noted that Michael Moore 's Roger & Me (distributed by Warner Brothers ) was omitted from the nominees, although it had been highly praised by numerous critics and was ranked by many critics as one of the top ten films of

540-440: The five nominees. Prior to the 78th Academy Awards , there were twelve films shortlisted. These are the additional films that were shortlisted. For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge: Arthur Cohn – 3 awards (resulting from 4 nominations) ; Simon Chinn – 2 awards ; Jacques-Yves Cousteau – 2 awards ; Walt Disney – 2 awards (resulting from 7 nominations; Disney has an additional 2 wins in

570-521: The interview subjects recreate their actions for the camera. This caused some controversy as some critics and filmmakers felt these recreations did not make it a true documentary. In later years, Zaritsky himself agreed the technique should not be used. However, it has since been widely used by other documentary filmmakers. The story was later re-told in fictionalized form in a made-for-television movie called Into Thin Air . The film starred Ellen Burstyn as

600-412: The legal system on both sides of the border. Raymond Hatch and Bertram Davis, hitchhikers Wilson had picked up, eventually confessed to the murder. The long-time criminal and drifter Hatch, who had committed the murder, was sentenced to 26 years in prison, but was released after serving 13. In 1994, he stabbed his girlfriend with a knife and was convicted of assault for which he served 9 months in jail. In

630-593: The only nominee from a documentary to win), Chasing Ice (for J. Ralph 's "Before My Time"), Racing Extinction (for Ralph and Anhoni 's " Manta Ray "), Jim: The James Foley Story (for Ralph and Sting 's " The Empty Chair "), Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me (for Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond 's " I'm Not Gonna Miss You "), The Hunting Ground (for Lady Gaga and Diane Warren 's " Til It Happens To You "), RBG (for Warren's "I'll Fight") and American Symphony (for Batiste's "It Never Went Away"). Documentaries nominated for their scores include This

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660-520: The search for a missing Ottawa teenager. Eric Wilson had left his native Ottawa in July 1978 in a Volkswagen camper on a trip to Boulder, Colorado . Somewhere in Nebraska , he disappeared. The movie traces how his family and a private investigator work to find out what had happened. The film focuses on how little help the various police forces were and is an indictment of the apathy and bureaucracy of

690-415: The shortlist." Among other rule changes taking effect in 2013, the academy began requiring a documentary to have been reviewed by either The New York Times or Los Angeles Times , and be commercially released for at least one week in both of those cities. Advocating the rule change, Michael Moore said "When people get the award for best documentary and they go on stage and thank the Academy, it's not really

720-555: The time of its nomination. In 1990, a group of 45 filmmakers filed a protest to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over a potential conflict of interest involving Mitchell Block . They noted that Block was a member of the Documentary Steering Committee, which selects films as nominees, but he had a conflict of interest because his company Direct Cinema owned the distribution rights to three of

750-407: The voting pool and improved his odds. Following protests by many documentarians, the nominating system subsequently was changed. Hoop Dreams director Steve James said "With so few people looking at any given film, it only takes one to dislike a film and its chances for making the short list are diminished greatly. So they've got to do something, I think, to make the process more sane for deciding

780-423: The work is fictitious, including Best Production Design , Best Costume Design , and acting. To date, no documentaries have been nominated for Best Picture , or Best Director . The Quiet One was nominated for Best Story and Screenplay . No documentary feature has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although Chang was nominated in the "Unique and Artistic Production" category at the 1927/28 awards. At

810-494: The year. The controversy over Hoop Dreams ' exclusion was enough to have the Academy Awards begin the process to change its documentary voting system. Roger Ebert, who had declared it to be the best 1994 movie of any kind, looked into its failure to receive a nomination: "We learned, through very reliable sources, that the members of the committee had a system. They carried little flashlights. When one gave up on

840-712: Was born in Burbank, California , in 1988, the son of accountant Brad Schrader and former news producer Diane Bear. He grew up in Seattle , Boise , and Colorado Springs before returning to Southern California to attend the University of Southern California , where he earned degrees from both the School of Cinematic Arts and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism . After graduating, Schrader accepted

870-487: Was enough to push it to sixth place." In 2000, Arthur Cohn, the producer of the winning One Day in September boasted "I won this without showing it in a single theater!" Cohn had hit upon the tactic of showing his Oscar entries at invitation-only screenings, and to as few other people as possible. Oscar bylaws at the time required voters to have seen all five nominated documentaries; by limiting his audience, Cohn shrank

900-442: Was the second (although it was, controversially, not nominated for Best Documentary Feature). Woodstock is also the only documentary to receive a nomination for Best Sound . Honeyland became the first documentary to be nominated for both Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature. The following year, Collective would accomplish the same double nomination. Prior to this, Waltz with Bashir became

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