Fifteen docs advanced to the final stages for Oscar consideration Monday. While the films making the cut are, of course, notable, some others that did not are also. Today’s winner of the New York Film Critics Circle for Best Non-Fiction film of 2012, Central Park Five , which made headlines recently because New York City officials attempted to gain access to the film’s outtakes related to a pending civil suit, did not make the cut. Other high profile docs also left out were Toronto’s West of Memphis and Sundance’s Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present as well as Magnolia’s The Queen of Versailles . While distributor IFC Films will likely be disappointed by the CP5 omission by the Academy, it will celebrate the inclusion of How To Survive a Plague , an AIDS doc that opened quietly, but to acclaim for its bravery. The distributor also had its Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry in the list. [ Related: Movieline’s Central Park Five coverage ] Tribeca’s Bully , which opened to controversy for its R-rating from the MPAA to pushback from distributor The Weinstein Company, also made the cut. The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies (information provided by AMPAS): Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , Never Sorry LLC Bully , The Bully Project LLC Chasing Ice , Exposure Detropia , Loki Films Ethel , Moxie Firecracker Films 5 Broken Cameras , Guy DVD Films The Gatekeepers , Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil The House I Live In , Charlotte Street Films, LLC How to Survive a Plague , How to Survive a Plague LLC The Imposter , Imposter Pictures Ltd. The Invisible War , Chain Camera Pictures Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God , Jigsaw Productions in association with Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films Searching for Sugar Man , Red Box Films This Is Not a Film , Wide Management The Waiting Room , Open’hood, Inc.
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Academy Names 15 As Best Documentary Oscar Contenders; ‘Central Park Five’ Snubbed
