OSCAR RACE 2009
commentary by Nathaniel R

Animated & Documentary & Short Categories

 

Animated Feature Film Nominees

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Coraline
Henry Selick
Focus Features
(Feb)

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
Fox
(Nov)

The Princess and the Frog
 Ron Clements
Disney
(Nov)

The Secret of Kells
 Tomm Moore
()

Up
Pete Docter
Disney / Pixar
(May)

 

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Documentary Feature Nominees

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Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land
Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller

The Cove
 TBA

Food, Inc
Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith

Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa

 

 

 

Short Film, Animated ~ Nominees
         
French Roast
Fabrice Joubert
Granny O' Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Nicky Phelan
La Dama Y La Muerte (The Lady and the Reaper)
Javier Reco Gracia
Logorama
Nicolas Schmerkin
Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death'
Nick Park

Finalists That Weren't Selected:
The Cat Piano (Eddie White and Ari Gibsob), The Kinematography (Tomek Baginski), Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn), Runaway (Cordell Barker) and Variete (Roelof van den Bergh)

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Short Film, Live Action ~ Nominees
         
The Door
Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Istället För Abrakadabra (Instead of Abracadabra)
Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjällström
Kavi
Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish
Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey
The New Tenants
Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson

Finalists That Weren't Selected:

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Documentary Short Subjects ~ Nominees
         
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Królik Po Berlinsku
Bartosz Konopka, Anna Wydra
Music By Prudence
Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett

Finalists That Weren't Selected:

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