Academy Awards news - eight films for Documentary Short Subject

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reports that eight films have been selected to compete for the award of "Documentary Short Subject" at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.

The films, selected by the Academy’s Documentary Branch which viewed this year’s 37 eligible entries, are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:

"China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province," Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
"The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner," Just Media
"The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant," Community Media Productions
"Lt. Watada," Chanlim Films
"Music by Prudence," iThemba Productions, Inc.
"Rabbit a la Berlin," MS Films
"Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak," Outside Productions
"Woman Rebel," Women Rebel Films

From this group, three to five will earn Oscar nominations. The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

As to the early favorites, it's hard not to think it's got to be "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant", given the economic times, and "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak" which is about the creator of the popular "Where the Wild Things Are."

Stay tuned.