Best Documentary, The Cove
Louie Psihoyos' The Cove, about the abuse and indiscriminate slaughter of dolphins at a secluded cove near Taiji, Japan, has been the most honored documentary of 2009. The Cove has won awards from various US critics groups, in addition to top awards from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild (for Mark Monroe), and the American Cinema Editors (for Geoffrey Richman). It's the clear favorite to win the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award.
The Cove's competitors are The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Which Way Home, Burma VJ, and Food, Inc. None of them has much of a chance.
The Cove (Courtesy of the Oceanic Preservation Society)
"Two of the Academy Award nominees in the documentary film category deal with whistle- blowing about subjects as basic as what we eat and why we fight.
“Food, Inc.” exposes the questionable practices of an industry that has become so consolidated that, according to the filmmakers, virtually everything we consume is controlled by a handful of companies, such as Tyson, Perdue, Smithfield and Monsanto, the latter also being the firm that manufactured Agent Orange and DDT."
Read the full story:
http://www.jewishjournal.com/oscars/article/doc_noms_probe_present_dangerspast_misdeeds_20100301/