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National Geo Plants Flag In Middle Of Oscar Documentary Race

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“And the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature goes to… My Octopus Teacher… to American Factory… to Icarus.”The Motion Picture Academy has enveloped Netflix nonfiction features with love again and again in recent years, rewarding the streamer with three trophies since 2018, not to mention half a dozen nominations overall.But the story this year seems less Netflix and more National Geographic.In a typical year, Netflix might easily boast five contenders.

But this time around it’s Nat Geo with a quintet of competitors: Torn, The First Wave, Playing with Sharks, The Rescue—directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin—and Becoming Cousteau, the film about celebrated French marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau directed by two-time Oscar

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