A total of 144 documentary features will be made available to voters in the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, according to emails sent to branch members by the Academy.
Almost all of the movies have been put on the members-only streaming platform dedicated to the category, with the final five movies listed as “coming soon.” While the official Academy list of rated films in the category likely won’t be released until December, a recent email to doc-branch members said that the 27 films added in November and the five to be added shortly they would be the “final release”. of eligible documentaries.
If all 144 films qualify, the field will be six films larger than last year’s 138 qualifying films. The record was set in 2020, when the relaxation of COVID-era eligibility requirements led to 238 films qualifying in the documentary feature category.
The list of films includes almost every top contender that has been awarded or nominated by other groups, including “All That Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love,” “Navalny,” and “Good Night.” . oppy. Some late-breaking films, such as Werner Herzog’s “Theater of Thought,” the Cinema Eye Honors nominee “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” and the IDA Documentary Award nominees “No Simple Way Home” and “The Pawnshop,” are not in the list. ready.
The films were available to Academy members at seven different times, from August 18 through early November. Fifteen features were placed in the screening room in August, followed by batches of 13, 6, 29, 29, and 20 films in September and October, and then the final group of 32.
At the same time, 98 short documentaries were made available.
Members of the Documentary Branch will receive assigned film lists to ensure that each qualifying film is seen by a representative number of voters. Voting for the first round will take place December 12-15, with a list of 15 short films announced on December 21.
Here is this year’s list of documentaries:
“Replica”
“Everything That Breathes”
“All the beauty and the bloodshed”
“America boxed in”
“Anonymous Club”
“Art and Krimes by Krimes”
“At Home Walking”
“The Automaton”
“Bad Axe”
“The movie on the balcony”
“Battlefield”
“drink”
“The Bengali”
“Bitter Brush”
“black ice”
“Black Notebooks – Ronit”
“Blue Island”
“The Bookkeepers”
“Brainwashing: Sex-Camera-Power”
“Breaking Bread”
Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche
“Calendar Girls”
“Doctor Morris’s Chamber”
“Cat Dads”
“Cathedral”
“Children of the Mist”
“Civil”
“Clay Dream”
“The corridors of power”
“Cow”
The Day the Music Died: The American Pie Story by Don McLean
“Deep in the Heart: A Story of Texas Wildlife”
“Descendant”
“Troubled Earth”
“Dream Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel”
“EAMI”
“The eclipse”
“Eternal Spring”
“The Exiles”
“Exposition”
“Fanny: The right to rock”
“Dad”
“The violinist’s journey to the big screen”
“Fire of love”
“Four Winters”
“Framing Agnes”
“Release Choi Soo Lee”
“Free puppies!”
“Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Struggle for Freedom”
“From the hood to the scream”
“Gabby Giffords won’t back down”
“Gamestop: The rise of the players”
“Girl taken”
“Goodnight Oppy”
“Revealed Gratitude”
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song”
“Hello, Bookstore”
“Hidden Letters”
“Stop the fire”
“A house made of splinters”
“How to survive a pandemic”
“Human Judgment”
“I’m here”
“I didn’t see you there”
“I am Wanita”
“In your hands”
“Invisible Demons”
“Is it black enough for you?!?”
“The Janes”
“Jazz Festival: A New Orleans Story”
“Katrina Babies”
“Keep taking steps”
“Kill Me Gently With Your Songs”
“The Hostilities”
“Last Flight Home”
“The Last of the Winthrops”
“Leave no trace”
“let me be me”
“Let the light shine”
“life life”
“Little Palestine, diary of a siege”
“Look at me: Xxxtentacion”
“Mouthmouth”
“Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues”
“Highsmith’s Lover”
“Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power”
“Master of Light”
“midwives”
“Darling”
“Moon Dream”
“Homeland”
“Mr. Landsbergis”
“My Old School”
“Myanmar Diaries”
“Navalny”
“Nelly and Nadine”
“The New Abolitionists”
“Nothing compares”
“Nothing lasts forever”
“Oleg”
“Only in theaters”
“Our American Family”
“Breathless”
“The princess”
“Project Iceman”
“Punch 9 for Harold Washington”
“The Silent Epidemic”
“Retrograde”
“The Return of Tanya Tucker – With Brandi Carlile”
“Riotsville, USA”
“Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams”
“Samson and I”
“Second opportunity”
“Selena Gomez: My mind and I”
“Send me”
“752 is not a number”
“Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic”
“sydney”
“The silence of the mole”
“Sirens”
“Souls in Transit”
“Mr.”
“A star without a star”
“History will not die”
“Stutz”
“Surviving Sex Trafficking”
“Tantura”
“The territory”
“Three Minutes – A Stretch”
“Tiger 24”
“Until the end”
“trenches”
“Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb”
“The Unredacted (Jihad Rehab)”
“Users”
“Long live Master!”
“The Voice of Dust and Ash”
“The Volcano: Whakaari Rescue”
“We are art through the eyes of Annalaura”
“What we left behind”
“Wildcat”
“The Will to See”
“The wind blows the border”
“Young Plato”