Michael Moore Gets No Love From Oscar
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Michael Moore is one of the most commercially successful documentary filmmakers of the past decade, certainly. Frankly? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts isn’t impressed. They don’t care that Moore’s latest accomplishment, Capitalism: A Love Story, made $14M at the box office which is a huge amount for a documentary.
The short list of films is determined by a committee of members of the academy’s documentary branch. They watch all eligible contenders and vote for their favorites by secret ballot. The top vote-getters make the short list of potential nominees.
The selections this year are “The Beaches of Agnes,” “Burma VJ,” “The Cove,” “Every Little Step,” “Facing Ali,” “Food, Inc.,” “Garbage Dreams,” “Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders,” “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” “Mugabe and the White African,” “Sergio,” “Soundtrack for a Revolution,” “Under Our Skin,” “Valentino The Last Emperor” and “Which Way Home.”
Aw, Michael. It look like you were just a bit too controversial and now the little designer raisin better known as Valentino is going to snag the coveted award that shoulda been yours.






