The Academy Awards arbiters announced the fifteen films on their short list for the feature length documentary prize, and one glaring omission is the biggest gay doc of the year, Chris & Don: A Love Story. Other high-profile snubs were Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Dear Zachary, The Order of Myths, and Bill Maher's Religulous. Those that made it were:
"At the Death House Door, directed by Peter Gilbert and Steve James
**"The Betrayal" (Nerakhoon), directed by Ellen Kuras
**"Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh", directed by Roberta Grossman
**"Encounters at the End of the World", directed by Werner Herzog [photo above]
"Fuel", directed by Josh Tickell
"The Garden", directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
"Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts", directed by Scott Hicks
"I.O.U.S.A.", directed by Patrick Creadon
"In a Dream", directed by Jeremiah Zagar
"Made in America", directed by Stacy Peralta
**"Man on Wire", directed by James Marsh
**"Pray the Devil Back to Hell", directed by Gini Reticker
**"Standard Operating Procedure", directed by Errol Morris
"They Killed Sister Dorothy", directed by Daniel Junge
**"Trouble the Water", directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
The final five will be announced with all the other Oscar nominees [Milk] on January 22. I've narrowed my predictions to seven, marked with **. Feel free to contradict; this is not my category.
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