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Annual Academy Award Documentary Winners

February 26, 2008 2:45 PM, by Catherine

Oscar statueThe documentary winners of the 80th Annual Academy Awards were announced on Sunday night.

Best Documentary Feature
Taxi to the Dark Side
Alex Gibney and Eva Orner

Best Documentary Short Subject
Freeheld
Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth

Reactions from the blogosphere are slowly trickling in. First, a shout-out to our own Tom Roston, who was right on the money with his prediction that Alex Gibney would take home the top honors for the feature category (view the trailer on YouTube). The Human Rights Campaign commends Cynthia Wade for the winning short, Freeheld, and posted links to an interview with her on the HRC XM Radio show "The Agenda with Joe Solmonese" a few weeks ago. And here's their acceptance speech.

Over at Salon, writers Andrew O'Heir and Cintra Williams muse that the nominees for the documentary category really reflect the Academy's distrust of the current administration. Williams felt the event reeked of "American self-loathing," quoting Gibney's acceptance speech urging the audience to "hope we can turn this country away from the dark side."

But overall, a lot of commentary seems to be focusing on the ceremony itself: apparently it was the least-watched Oscars broadcast in recorded history (Reuters), and the New York Times wonders why.

Tags: Academy Award, Documentary News

Posted by Catherine on February 26, 2008 2:45 PM | PermaLink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

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agree with the comments made on the academy awards
it is time to honor those who contribute to the society that make a difference.
we need more films that do not insult our intelligence and we need films that stimulate our growth,
not just lavishing on celerbities with aimless hollow theme.

the owl


Posted by judy chan | December 2, 2008 6:53 AM

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