Recent winners of the documentary feature Oscar have been crowd-pleasing and uplifting features. This year, however, sees a more serious group of competitors — which makes predicting the victor more complicated.
In the past couple of years, as Academy membership has grown larger and more diverse, the feature documentary results have been a lot more mellow, with crowd-pleasing choices — like the 2021 concert film— prevailing. This suggested to Oscar handicappers that if the race has a favorite, it must be whichever film appears to be the most likable and accessible of the contenders.
But this year, that rule of thumb has been tossed aside. That’s because, in a competition crowded with quality docs, some of the most audience-friendly movies, somewhat inexplicably, didn’t make the cut. Ryan White’s, which imaginatively re-created the life of two Mars rovers, won the top prize at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards but was left off the Academy’s shortlist of 15 films, from which the five nominees were chosen.
This year, if the Academy is looking to make a statement — as it has done in the past with movies like Davis Guggenheim’s 2006
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