A number expected features ended up on the shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar specified in the below official press release:

15 Documentary Features Advance In 2012 Oscar® Race

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards®. One hundred twenty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Never Sorry LLC
• Bully, The Bully Project LLC
• Chasing Ice, Exposure
• Detropia, Loki Films
• Ethel, Moxie Firecracker Films
• 5 Broken Cameras, Guy DVD Films
• The Gatekeepers, Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil
• The House I Live In, Charlotte Street Films, LLC
• How to Survive a Plague, How to Survive a Plague LLC
• The Imposter, Imposter Pictures Ltd.
• The Invisible War, Chain Camera Pictures
• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Jigsaw Productions in association with Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
• Searching for Sugar Man, Red Box Films
• This Is Not a Film, Wide Management
• The Waiting Room, Open’hood, Inc.