Nakon rekordne prošle godine i 170 službeno verificiranih kandidata za nagradu Oscar u kategoriji dugometražnog dokumentarnog filma, očekivalo se i da će ova nastaviti sličnom rutom. Ipak, od rekorda u 2018. za američku Akademiju filmskih umjetnosti i znanosti (AMPAS) neće biti ništa, jer će nefikcijskog Zlatnog kipića ganjati tek 166 dokumentarnih naslova.
Medijsku pažnju ponovno, prema očekivanjima, privlače uglavnom američki dokumentarci među kojima treba tražiti glavne favorite najprestižnije svjetske filmske nagrade. U prvom redu to su ovogodišnji box-office hitovi “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (2018) Morgana Nevillea, “RBG” (2018) Julie Cohen i Betsy West, “Free Solo” (2018) Jimmyja China i Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, “Fahrenheit 11/9” (2018) Michaela Moorea te “Three Identical Strangers” (2018) Britanca Tima Wardlea, koji su među sobom u 2018. podijelili više od 60 milijuna prihoda od kino ulaznica.
Put do vrha tražit će i dokumentarac srpske autorice Mile Turajlić, “Druga strana svega” (2017), dok je u kandidacijskom žrvnju mjesto pronašla i hrvatska manjinska produkcija Novog Filma, “Ruski film ceste” / “Road Movie” / “Doroga” (2016) ruskog autora Dmitrija Kalašnjikova.
Skraćenu listu petnaest preostalih kandidata trebali bismo doznati 17. prosinca, konačnu nominacijsku 22. siječnja sljedeće godine, a glavni pobjednik ukazat će se 24.2. u losanđeleskom Dolby Theatreu.
Službena kandidacijska lista 91. Oscara u kategoriji dugometražnog dokumetnarnog filma:
- “Above and Beyond: NASA’S Journey to Tomorrow“
- “Active Measures”
- “Amazing Grace”
- “American Chaos”
- “Andy Irons: Kissed by God”
- “Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco”
- “Avicii: True Stories”
- “Bali: Beats of Paradise”
- “Bathtubs over Broadway”
- “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché”
- “Believer”
- “Better Angels”
- “Bill Coors: The Will to Live”
- “Bisbee ’17”
- “The Bleeding Edge”
- “Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat”
- “Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine”
- “Call Her Ganda”
- “Charm City”
- “Chef Flynn”
- “The China Hustle”
- “Christian Audigier The Vif”
- “The Cleaners”
- “Communion”
- “Crime + Punishment”
- “Dark Money”
- “Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders”
- “The Dawn Wall”
- “The Distant Barking of Dogs”
- “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes”
- “Drug$”
- “Eating Animals”
- “Eldorado”
- “Fahrenheit 11/9”
- “Fail State”
- “Family in Transition”
- “Far from the Tree”
- “Filmworker”
- “The First Patient”
- “Foreign Land”
- “40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie”
- “Free Solo”
- “Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable”
- “Generation Wealth”
- “Ghost Hunting”
- “Ghosthunter”
- “The Gilligan Manifesto”
- “The Gospel According to André”
- “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami”
- “Graves without a Name”
- “The Great Buster: A Celebration”
- “Hal”
- “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
- “Half the Picture”
- “The Heart of Nuba”
- “Hillbilly”
- “The Homeless Chorus Speaks”
- “Hondros”
- “Howard”
- “In Search of Greatness”
- “In the Land of Pomegranates”
- “Inventing Tomorrow“
- “Invisible Hands”
- “Itzhak”
- “Jane Fonda in Five Acts”
- “John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection”
- “The Judge”
- “Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story”
- “Killer Bees”
- “The King”
- “King in the Wilderness”
- “Kusama – Infinity”
- “The Last Race”
- “Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy”
- “Letter from Masanjia”
- “Licu, a Romanian Story”
- “Living in the Future’s Past”
- “Liyana”
- “Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle”
- “Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story”
- “Love, Cecil”
- “Love, Gilda”
- “Love Is Tolerance – Tolerance Is Love – Make Tolerance Great Again!”
- “Making The Five Heartbeats”
- “Maria by Callas”
- “Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.”
- “McQueen”
- “Minding the Gap”
- “Monrovia, Indiana”
- “The Most Unknown”
- “New Moon”
- “93Queen”
- “Nossa Chape”
- “Of Fathers and Sons”
- “Of Love & Law”
- “On Her Shoulders”
- “Opera about Poland”
- “The Opera House”
- “The Oslo Diaries”
- “Druga strana svega”
- “The Panama Papers”
- “Path of Blood”
- “People’s Republic of Desire”
- “Philosopher King – Lee Teng-hui’s Dialogue”
- “Pick of the Litter”
- “Piripkura”
- “Police Killing”
- “Pope Francis – A Man of His Word”
- “The Price of Everything”
- “The Price of Free”
- “Qiu (Inmates)”
- “Quincy”
- “RBG”
- “The Rachel Divide”
- “The Raft”
- “Recovery Boys”
- “Restoring Tomorrow“
- “Reversing Roe”
- “The Road Movie”
- “Robin Williams: Come inside My Mind”
- “Ruben Blades Is Not My Name”
- “Samouni Road”
- “Saving Brinton”
- “Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland”
- “Science Fair”
- “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”
- “Searching for Ingmar Bergman”
- “Seeing Allred”
- “The Sentence”
- “Shirkers”
- “Shot in the Dark”
- “The Silence of Others”
- “Sisters of the Wilderness”
- “A Son of Man”
- “Songwriter”
- “Stan”
- “Studio 54”
- “Summer in the Forest”
- “Tea with the Dames”
- “That Summer”
- “That Way Madness Lies…”
- “They Fight”
- “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead”
- “This Is Congo”
- “This Is Home: A Refugee Story”
- “Three Identical Strangers”
- “To Be Continued”
- “Transformer”
- “Travel Ban”
- “The Trial”
- “Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace”
- “Trust Machine”
- “Under the Wire”
- “United Skates”
- “Unknown Distance”
- “Up Down and Sideways”
- “The Waldheim Waltz”
- “We Could Be Heroes”
- “Weed the People”
- “What Haunts Us”
- “What Lies Upstream”
- “Whitney”
- “Wonderful Losers: A Different World”
- “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
- “Yellow Is Forbidden”
- “Yellowing”