Edited by Lianne Lee
The 2022 Academy Awards nominations have been announced, and the Oscar season is rapidly approaching its finale on March 27. The Academy Awards are a night of prestige, glimmering gowns, and Hollywood A-list actors. The nominees are the best of the best in the industry, and the audience is an array of superstars, caught up in the excitement of the evening.
With the Oscars season coming up, here’s a look at the nominees for best documentary feature. The Feature Documentary category is looking to be one of the more competitive categories of the Oscars this year. The nominations are more diverse than in previous years and there is a lot of good films.
And the nominees for the 2022 Oscars Best Documentary Feature are (drumroll please):
“Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein;
“Flee”, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie;
“Attica”, by Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry;
“Writing With Fire”, by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh; and
“Ascension”, by Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell. (Oscars.org)
According to many, the main contender for the Oscar this year is the animated documentary “Flee”. The film made its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, winning the World Cinema Documentary title. Released to critical acclaim, with a 98 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, “Flee” tells the coming-out story of a gay Afghani refugee resettled in Denmark. The Guardian (2022) described the film as a “masterly animated documentary” and “ultimately uplifting”, while Variety stated that it was “an incredibly intimate act of sharing” (Variety 2022). In an Oscars first, the film is also nominated in two more categories, best international feature film and best-animated feature film. You can watch it on Amazon and Apple TV!
Bibliography
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Kermode, M. (2022, February 13). Flee review – an Afghan refugee confronts his past in
masterly animated documentary. The Guardian. Retrieved March 2, 2022, from
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/13/flee-review-an-afghan-refugee-
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Oscars. (2022). The 94th Academy Awards 2022. Oscars. Retrieved March 2, 2022, from
https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2022
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