Oscar 2005: Documentary Shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday, Nov. 17, a list of twelve semi-finalists for the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. The twelve films were chosen by the Academy’s documentary branch, which also will select the five final nominees.
They are:
Born into Brothels, about the children of Calcutta prostitutes;
Home of the Brave, the story of murdered civil-rights activist Viola Liuzzo;
the biography Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train;
Academy Award-winner Jessica Yu’s In the Realms of the Unreal, a portrait of artist and janitor Henry Darger;
Sundance Film Festival opener Riding Giants, a documentary about surfing;
The Ritchie Boys, the story of German Jews who were trained as an [...]
