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Oscar’s Best Picture Race Should Include a Documentary This Year

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Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentIs this the year a documentary finally gets a best picture Oscar nomination?When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2009 expanded the top category to 10, then-prez Sid Ganis expressed hope the noms would include animation, international films and docs.

Since then, the first two groups have made the grade, but no docs. Many people this year, confined to their homes because of COVID, are sampling titles they might have missed otherwise; hopefully, this is true of Oscar voters too.If so, they will see knockout docs such as “Crip Camp” (directors James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham); “Collective” (Alexander Nanau); “The Truffle Hunters” (Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw); “A Thousand Cuts” (Ramona S.

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