15 largos documentales compiten por el Oscar

La Academia ha anunciado la lista de los 15 largos documentales que han pasado el primer corte para competir por el Oscar de su categoría. Entre ellos destaca Exit through the Gift Shop, del graffitero Banksy; Inside Job, un polémico reportaje sobre la crisis económica mundial; y Waiting for Superman, el nuevo trabajo del director de Una verdad incómoda producido por Bill Gates y que aborda el problema de la educación pública americana.

Las 15 películas son:

  • “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” Alex Gibney, director (ES Productions LLC)
  • “Enemies of the People,” Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, directors (Old Street Films)
  • Exit through the Gift Shop,” Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)
  • “Gasland,” Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)
  • “Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould,” Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont, directors (White Pine Pictures)
  • Inside Job,” Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)
  • “The Lottery,” Madeleine Sackler, director (Great Curve Films)
  • “Precious Life,” Shlomi Eldar, director (Origami Productions)
  • “Quest for Honor,” Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, director (Smothers Bruni Productions)
  • “Restrepo,” Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)
  • “This Way of Life,” Thomas Burstyn, director (Cloud South Films)
  • “The Tillman Story,” Amir Bar-Lev, director (Passion Pictures/Axis Films)
  • Waiting for ‘Superman’”, Davis Guggenheim, director (Electric Kinney Films)
  • “Waste Land,” Lucy Walker, director (Almega Projects)
  • “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe,” Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, directors (Disturbing the Universe LLC)