{"id":2165573,"date":"2025-11-19T01:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2165573"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:23:33","slug":"directors-of-10-oscar-contending-docs-discuss-their-films-origins-challenges-and-impact-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/directors-of-10-oscar-contending-docs-discuss-their-films-origins-challenges-and-impact-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors of 10 Oscar-Contending Docs Discuss Their Films\u2019 Origins, Challenges and Impact (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year, 169 films were eligible for the best documentary feature Oscar. Not even the most diligent members of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saw anywhere near that many before casting their ballots to determine the shortlist of 15 finalists or the five eventual Oscar nominees. There are just not enough hours in the day.<\/p>\n

The goal of the Scad Savannah Film Festival\u2019s Docs to Watch Panel, which has been presented by The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> and hosted by yours truly since 2014, has always been to highlight 10 of the year\u2019s doc features that are truly outstanding and worthy of attention. And it seems like the doc branch is paying attention: over the past 11 years, 24 docs that were represented on the panel went on to Oscar noms (of a possible 55), and eight went on to win (of a possible 11).<\/p>\n

On Oct. 29, the directors of outstanding…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, 169 films were eligible for the best documentary feature Oscar. Not even the most diligent members of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saw anywhere near that many before casting their ballots to determine the shortlist of 15 finalists or the five eventual Oscar nominees. There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2165573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Directors-of-10-Oscar-Contending-Docs-Discuss-Their-Films-Origins-Challenges.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165575,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165573\/revisions\/2165575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}