Best Documentary

The Academy has selected it's semi-finalists to be competing for documentary feature. I've seen one of these films, so my criticism is not all that worthy here I guess. I don't see enough documentaries every year to be a cohesive enthusiast.



Notably absent are Kirby Dick's incisive critique of closeted senators Outrage (my grade: A-), and Michael Moore's latest opus, Capitalism: A Love Story, thus far the highest grossing documentary of the year, as well as two successful and critically accepted music documentaries-- It Might Get Loud and Anvil: The Story of Anvil!. The finalists are:

The Beaches of Agnes
Burma VJ
The Cove
Every Little Step
Facing Ali
Food, Inc.
Garbage Dreams
Living in Emergency: The Stories of Doctors Without Borders
The Most Dangerous Man in the World: Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers
Mugabe & the White African
Sergio
Soundtrack for a Revolution
Under Our Skin
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Which Way Home

My track records pretty good this year actually-- saw one of them (Every Little Step, about the casting of the revival of A Chorus Line) and have heard of all but three. YAY ME!