Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film explained
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film 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.[1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946.[2] Copies of every winning film (along with copies of most nominees) are held by the Academy Film Archive.[3]
Winners and nominees
Following the academy's practice, films are listed below by 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.
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1960s
1970s
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1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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2010
| Inside Job | Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs |
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| Exit Through the Gift Shop | Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz |
| Gasland | Josh Fox and |
| Restrepo | Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger |
| Waste Land | Lucy Walker and |
2011
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| Undefeated | T. J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay and Rich Middlemas |
| Hell and Back Again | Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner |
| If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front | Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman |
| Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| Pina | Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel |
2012
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| Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn |
| 5 Broken Cameras | Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi |
| The Gatekeepers | Dror Moreh,, and |
| How to Survive a Plague | David France and Howard Gertler |
| The Invisible War | Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering |
2013
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| 20 Feet from Stardom | Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers |
| The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen |
| Cutie and the Boxer | Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher |
| Dirty Wars | Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill |
| The Square | Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer |
2014
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| Citizenfour | Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky |
| Finding Vivian Maier | John Maloof and |
| Last Days in Vietnam | Rory Kennedy and Kevin McAlester |
| The Salt of the Earth | Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier |
| Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara |
2015
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| Amy | Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees |
| Cartel Land | Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin |
| The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen |
| What Happened, Miss Simone? | Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes |
| Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor |
2016
[14] |
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| Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow |
| Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo |
| I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck, and Hébert Peck |
| Life, Animated | Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman |
| 13th | Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish |
2017
(90th)
[15] |
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| Icarus | Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan |
| Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman |
| Faces Places | Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda |
| Last Men in Aleppo | Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen |
| Strong Island | Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes |
2018
(91st) |
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| Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, and |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, and Su Kim |
| Minding the Gap | Bing Liu and Diane Quon |
| Of Fathers and Sons | Talal Derki,,, and |
| RBG | Betsy West and |
2019
(92nd) |
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| American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert |
| The Cave | Feras Fayyad, and |
| The Edge of Democracy | Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris and |
| For Sama | Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts |
| Honeyland | Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev | |
2020s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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2020/21
| My Octopus Teacher | , James Reed and Craig Foster |
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| Collective | Alexander Nanau and |
| Crip Camp | Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder |
| The Mole Agent | Maite Alberdi and |
| Time | Garrett Bradley, and Kellen Quinn |
2021
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| Summer of Soul | Questlove,, and |
| Ascension | Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell |
| Attica | Stanley Nelson and |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie |
| Writing with Fire | Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh |
2022
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| Navalny | Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris |
| All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer |
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov |
| Fire of Love | Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman |
| A House Made of Splinters | Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström |
2023
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| 20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath |
| Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek |
| The Eternal Memory | Maite Alberdi |
| Four Daughters | Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha |
| To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim |
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Shortlisted finalists
Finalists for Best Documentary Feature are selected by the Documentary Branch based on a preliminary ballot. A second preferential ballot determines the five nominees.[16] Prior to the 78th Academy Awards, there were twelve films shortlisted. These are the additional films that were shortlisted.
| Year | Finalists |
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| 1999 | Amargosa, American Movie, Beyond the Mat, , Pop & Me, Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial, The Source[17] |
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| 2003 | The Agronomist, Bus 174, , Heir to an Execution, Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story, Lost Boys of Sudan, My Flesh and Blood[18] |
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| 2004 | Home of the Brave, , In the Realms of the Unreal, Riding Giants, The Ritchie Boys, Tell Them Who You Are, Touching the Void[19] |
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| 2005 | After Innocence, The Boys of Baraka, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Favela Rising, Mad Hot Ballroom, , On Native Soil: The Documentary of the 9/11 Commission Report, Rize, 39 Pounds of Love, Unknown White Male[20] |
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| 2006 | Blindsight, Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, The Ground Truth, , Shut Up & Sing, Sisters in Law, Storm of Emotions, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, An Unreasonable Man, The War Tapes[21] |
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| 2007 | , Body of War, For the Bible Tells Me So, Lake of Fire, Nanking, Please Vote for Me, The Price of Sugar, , The Rape of Europa, White Light/Black Rain[22] |
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| 2008 | At the Death House Door, Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, Fuel, , I.O.U.S.A., In a Dream, Made in America, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Standard Operating Procedure, They Killed Sister Dorothy[23] |
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| 2009 | The Beaches of Agnès, Every Little Step, Facing Ali, Garbage Dreams, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mugabe and the White African, Sergio, Soundtrack for a Revolution, Under Our Skin, [24] |
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| 2010 | , Enemies of the People, Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, The Lottery, Precious Life, Quest for Honor, This Way of Life, The Tillman Story, Waiting for "Superman", [25] |
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| 2011 | Battle for Brooklyn, Bill Cunningham New York, Buck, Jane's Journey, The Loving Story, Project Nim, , Sing Your Song, Under Fire: Journalists in Combat, We Were Here[26] |
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| 2012 | , Bully, Chasing Ice, Detropia, Ethel, The House I Live In, The Imposter, , This Is Not a Film, The Waiting Room[27] |
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| 2013 | The Armstrong Lie, Blackfish, The Crash Reel, First Cousin Once Removed, God Loves Uganda, Life According to Sam, , Stories We Tell, Tim's Vermeer, Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington[28] |
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| 2014 | Art and Craft, The Case Against 8, Citizen Koch, The Internet's Own Boy, Jodorowsky's Dune, Keep on Keepin' On, The Kill Team, Life Itself, The Overnighters, Tales of the Grim Sleeper[29] |
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| 2015 | Best of Enemies, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, He Named Me Malala, Heart of a Dog, The Hunting Ground, Listen to Me Marlon, Meru, 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, We Come as Friends, Where to Invade Next[30] |
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| 2016 | Cameraperson, Command and Control, The Eagle Huntress, Gleason, Hooligan Sparrow, The Ivory Game, Tower, Weiner, The Witness, Zero Days[31] |
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| 2017 | Chasing Coral, City of Ghosts, , Human Flow, , Jane, LA 92, Long Strange Trip, One of Us, Unrest[32] |
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| 2018 | Charm City, Communion, Crime + Punishment, Dark Money, The Distant Barking of Dogs, On Her Shoulders, Shirkers, The Silence of Others, Three Identical Strangers, Won't You Be My Neighbor?[33] |
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| 2019 | Advocate, The Apollo, Apollo 11, Aquarela, The Biggest Little Farm, The Great Hack, Knock Down the House, Maiden, Midnight Family, One Child Nation [34] |
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| 2020 | , Boys State, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Gunda, MLK/FBI, Notturno, The Painter and the Thief, 76 Days, The Truffle Hunters, Welcome to Chechnya[35] |
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| 2021 | , Faya Dayi, The First Wave, In the Same Breath, Julia, President, Procession, The Rescue, Simple as Water, The Velvet Underground[36] |
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| 2022 | Bad Axe, Children of the Mist, Descendant, , Hidden Letters, The Janes, Last Flight Home, Moonage Daydream, Retrograde, The Territory[37] |
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| 2023 | 32 Sounds, American Symphony, Apolonia, Apolonia, Beyond Utopia, Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, , In the Rearview, Stamped from the Beginning, , A Still Small Voice[38] | |
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Superlatives
For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge:[39]
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 the Documentary Short Subject category);Rob Epstein 2 awards;Marvin Hier 2 awards;Barbara Kopple 2 awards
Process controversies
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 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 the five films (including eventual winner [40] 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 the year.[41]
The controversy over Hoop Dreams exclusion was enough to have the Academy Awards begin the process to change its documentary voting system.[42] 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 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."[43]
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 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 was enough to push it to sixth place."[44]
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 the voting pool and improved his odds. Following protests by many documentarians, the nominating system subsequently was changed.[45]
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 the shortlist."[46] Among other rule changes taking effect in 2013,[47] 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 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 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."[48]
In 2014, following 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.[49] Additionally, in his reporting of the Oscar documentary shortlist exclusions that year, The Hollywood Reporter Scott Feinberg reacted to Red Army 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".[50] (Icarus, another documentary related to sports and Russian-American relations, later won 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).[51]
Various other acclaimed documentaries have not been nominated.[52] [53]
Documentaries with wins or nominations in other categories
Though Academy rules do not expressly preclude documentaries from being nominated in other competitive categories,[54] documentaries are typically considered ineligible for nominations in categories that presume the work is fictitious, including Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and acting. To date, no documentaries have been nominated for Best Picture,[55] 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 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.[56] [57] 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[58] while Hoop Dreams was the second (although it was, controversially, not nominated for Best Documentary Feature).[59] [60] Woodstock is also the only documentary to receive a nomination for Best Sound.[61]
Honeyland became the first documentary to be nominated for both Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature.[62] The following year, Collective would accomplish the same double nomination.[63] [64] [65] Prior to this, Waltz with Bashir became the first documentary and first animated film nominated for Best International Feature Film, although it was not nominated for Best Documentary Feature.[66] [67] 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"),[68] An Inconvenient Truth (for Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up", the only nominee from a documentary to win),[69] Chasing Ice (for J. Ralph's "Before My Time"), Racing Extinction (for Ralph and Anhoni's "Manta Ray"), (for Ralph and Sting's "The Empty Chair"), (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")[70] and American Symphony (for Batiste's "It Never Went Away").
Documentaries nominated for their scores include This is Cinerama, White Wilderness (which also won for Documentary Feature[71]), 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.[72]
See also
External links
Notes and References
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- In 1942, documentary features and short subjects competed together for Best Documentary. Four special awards were bestowed among the 25 nominees.
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- A preliminary list of eight films were announced as nominees, but the Documentary Award Committee subsequently narrowed the field to five titles included on the final ballot. The films that did not advance were: For God and Country (United States Army Pictorial Service), Silent Village (British Ministry of Information), and We've Come a Long, Long Way (Negro Marches On, Inc.).
- Terminus was originally announced as a nominee, but the nomination was rescinded after it was discovered the film had been released prior to the eligibility period.
- Web site: The Official Academy Awards Database . . . January 4, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090227145302/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ . February 27, 2009 . dead .
- Young Americans, produced by Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff, won this award on April 14, 1969. On May 7, 1969, the win and nomination were rescinded after it was discovered the film had been released prior to the eligibility period. First runner-up Journey into Self was named the winner the following day.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ti6C0lFsfk Documentary Winners: 1969 Oscars
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- A tie in voting resulted in two winners.
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- Web site: 15 Documentary Features Advance in 2014 Oscar Race . . December 1, 2014 . . May 5, 2020 .
- Web site: 15 Documentary Features Advance in 2015 Oscar Race . . December 1, 2015 . . May 5, 2020 .
- Web site: 15 Documentary Features Advance in 2016 Oscar Race . . December 6, 2016 . . May 5, 2020 .
- Web site: Oscars: The 15 Films on the Documentary Feature Shortlist . . December 7, 2017 . . May 5, 2020 .
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- Web site: 92nd Oscar Shortlists . . 10 December 2019 . . May 3, 2020 .
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- News: Oscar Doc Shortlist: A Brutal Year to Have to Select Just 15 Finalists. The Hollywood Reporter. 2017-11-27. en.
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- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-16-ca-2766-story.html Oscars Have No Hidden 'Agenda' to Thwart Popular Documentaries – Los Angeles Times
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kptJmLPcKBg "Another Round" Wins Best International Film|93rd Oscars
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T9f3RKLU5w "My Octopus Teacher" Wins Best Documentary Feature|93rd Oscars
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRF9T3D6Bo "Departures" Wins Foreign Language Film: 2009 Oscars
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