You can read more about this project in the article at this link. Below is our third poll, covering Best Original Screenplay. As a refresher, here is where we obtain the titles/performances will be included in the polls that will be conducted: Four-Source Categories:
The actual Oscar nominees in the selected category.
The Top Ten eligible films at the U.S. box office.
The ten highest-rated eligible films according to Rotten Tomatoes
The precursor nominees and winners in the selected category.
Best Original Screenplay
We’re using Survey Monkey for these polls. You get to rank all of the appropriate titles/performances how you see fit, but preferably in order of preference.
I agree. Documentaries rarely compete outside of their genre category (Hoop Dreams for Film Editing, Woodstock for Film Editing and Sound), An Inconvenient Truth for Song). Writing seems at odds with the spirit of a documentary. I know screenplays have more to them than just the the spoken word (The Red Balloon won the Original Screenplay Oscar with nearly no dialogue.) Nevertheless, has any documentary received a writing credit, let alone a screenplay nomination?
Documentaries have screenplays. They must be researched, filmed and structured according to something. I doubt any documentary filmmaker would be able to construct their films without some kind of narrative.
Some do, some don’t, this one doesn’t. It was basically newsreel coverage shot as it happened in 1974.
Per IMDb.:
Though almost all of the footage in this documentary was shot by producer/director Leon Gast in 1974, one reason it took 23 years to complete was because the negative and rights to the film were entangled in civil suits involving the Liberians who financed the movie’s making.
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