Academy News: Virginia Tech Shooting Film Makes 2010 Oscar Doc Shorts List

Colin Goddard In Living For 32

Born Sweet, Killing in the Name, and One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey, are some of the films on the Oscar 2010 Documentary Shortlist for the 2011 83rd Academy Awards. But the one causing the most buzz is called Living for 32.

Living for 32 is a documentary about Colin Goddard, one of the only survivors of the gun shooting massacre which occurred on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16th, 2007. In the film, Goddard tells the story of how he survived that day, and how he copes with life in the wake of that horrific event.

Here's the full list of entries according to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences:

Born Sweet, Cynthia Wade Productions
Killing in the Name, Moxie Firecracker Films
Living for 32, Cuomo Cole Productions
One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey, Lichen Films
Poster Girl, Portrayal Films
Strangers No More, Simon & Goodman Picture Company
Sun Come Up, Sun Come Up, LLC
The Warriors of Qiugang, Thomas Lennon Films, Inc.

From the Academy:

The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.