Should Documentary Films Compete in Best Picture Category?

[Barbra please Joined: Oct 21st, 2018 Topics: 18 Posts: 441 View Predictions]

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There is so many worthy documentary great enough to be nominated for Best Picture along with genre films. Do you think in the future, the Oscars will allow documentary to compete in Best Picture? And what documentaries from last decade or century do you think should’ve nominated or won Best Picture?

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[Calvin Joined: Dec 27th, 2017 Topics: 1 Posts: 215 View Predictions]

#1204152320

Not this century but I personally though Hoop Dreams not only deserved to be nominated for Best Picture, it would’ve deserved to win that year. Sadly didn’t;t even get a Documentary nod (though it did get editing).

FYC:

Supporting Actress - Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)

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[Diamond Tier Joined: Aug 14th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 531 View Predictions]

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The closest was probably Fahrenheit 9/11. A documentary would need to make a ton of money at box office or be a cultural milestone.

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[Brayden Fitzsimmons Joined: May 3rd, 2015 Topics: 121 Posts: 8016 View Predictions]

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I always wondered if they competed under the 2009-2010 voting system, if Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvenient Truth and Free Solo would’ve been BP nominees.

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[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 297 Posts: 5682 View Predictions]

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It should be interesting to see if a documentary can get nominated moving forward given that next year will mark the return of a full slate of 10 Best Picture nominees. Under that nomination voting system in 2009 and 2010, we got to see a wide variety of different films that normally would’ve never made it into a field of 5 nor the sliding scale.

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[wilfredpickles Joined: Jul 15th, 2017 Topics: 4 Posts: 620 View Predictions]

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I’d be more than happy to see it, but I couldn’t predict which Doc would be the first to achieve it. The branch is notoriously fussy so we’d possibly end up with a BP nominee that doesn’t make the final 5 in Feature.

The fixed 10 BP nominees will help, much like how I’m expecting to see animated films return to the lineup.

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[String Cheese Theory Joined: Aug 16th, 2020 Topics: 4 Posts: 573 View Predictions]

#1204152614

I love documentaries but personally, no I don’t think so. BP is for a combination of things including acting which some would say is the heart of a film. I do however, think that documentary feature should be elevated to have a higher prestige within the ceremony.

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 360 Posts: 22136 View Predictions]

#1204152738

Documentaries are perfectly eligible for competition in BP. It just hasn’t happened yet. Maybe it never will, but the possibility exists. The closest probably was with “Fahrenheit 9/11,” but the category expansion wouldn’t happen until years later. I doubt that those circumstances will ever exist again, but anything’s possible.

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[Croman Joined: Sep 27th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 75 View Predictions]

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Flee from Sundance has a great shot of getting animated feature, documentary feature, and international film. With Honeyland and Collective, they clearly are slowly wanting to expand into more categories. Collective should’ve gotten an editing nom at the least.

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 271 Posts: 21122 View Predictions]

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Yes they should. They do conform by the standard definition of “films” and also Time is better than all of the Best Picture nominees this year.

FYC Emmys: "The Crown" in all categories, "I May Destroy You" in all categories, "It's a Sin" in all categories, "Small Axe" in all categories, Billie Piper ("I Hate Suzie"), Yvonne Strahovski ("Stateless") and Ruth Wilson ("His Dark Materials")

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[Ruby Sparks Joined: Sep 26th, 2017 Topics: 1 Posts: 188 View Predictions]

#1204154894

No. That’s what Best Documentary is for. I also think there needs to be a ban on documentaries in the Foreign Language Film category as they keep infecting that lineup.

oof! Tell us how you really feel!

I personally don’t believe that any film should be excluded from any category where they are eligible or deserving.

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[Faux architect Joined: Mar 29th, 2017 Topics: 0 Posts: 528 View Predictions]

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No. That’s what Best Documentary is for. I also think there needs to be a ban on documentaries in the Foreign Language Film category as they keep infecting that lineup.

Proof that Close should have won.

Pantheon of acting: Uta / Elizabeth / Richard / Sandy (Virginia Woolf), Bibi / Liv (Persona), Sandrine (La Ceremonie), Brie (Short Term 12), Jodie (Silence of the Lambs), Jodie (Killing Eve), Nicole (The Others), Eva (Penny Dreadful), Timothée (CMBYN), Lupita (Us)

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[FairWeatherAffair Joined: May 11th, 2018 Topics: 7 Posts: 1026 View Predictions]

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Can and should. Really, really embarrassing that it hasn’t happened yet.

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