Oscar Short List od Documentare Draws Controversy
di Michael Cieply The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — “Tyson,” a critically acclaimed movie about the boxer Mike Tyson, was not among 15 feature documentaries that qualified on Wednesday for possible Oscar nominations, and James Toback, the filmmaker behind it, is fighting mad.
Reached by phone on Thursday, Mr. Toback suggested, without giving details, that an irregularity in the process had contributed to what he saw as a snub.
At a time when the validity of even presidential elections is questioned, Mr. Toback said, “how is some tiny, dirty covert weirdly protective little group within the Academy going to be immune?”
Controversy over the documentaries chosen to compete for an Oscar nomination is almost an annual event, and the “Tyson” case was one of many this year, as a screening committee from the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooked at least a half-dozen prominent films. [...]
di Michael Cieply, articolo completo (3742 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 Novembre 2009
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