Oscar Nominees for Best Documentaries
Thursday January 22, 2009
Without further ado, the nominees for the 81st Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature are:
* The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) - Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
* Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
* The Garden - Scott Hamilton Kennedy
* Man on Wire - James Marsh, Simon Chinn
* Trouble the Water - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
The nominees for the Best Documentary Short are:
* The Conscience of Nhem En - Steven Okazaki
* The Final InchIrene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
* Smile Pinki - Megan Mylan
* The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306 - Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
Additionally, Waltz With Bashir (Israel), the animated documentary directed by Ari Folman, is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.