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Hoop Dreams. Crumb. Michael Moore's Roger & Me. Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line. Michael Apted's 7 Up series. These are some of the finest documentary features in recent decades, and they share one distinction: none received an Oscar, or even a nomination, for Best Documentary. An outcry over the exclusion of films like these and charges of cronyism within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' selection committee led to rules changes in 2001. So this year's list will be a lot sharper...
...five films received fervent reviews. And none made the preliminary Oscar short list of 15 documentary features, from which will come five nominees to be revealed next week...
Read Corliss's coverage of the Oscar nominations on time.com...
...Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson, 46, trades corsets and curls for padding and a monobrow in her new film about an ugly but magical child minder, Nanny McPhee. Over tea, the Briton tells TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan why Mary Poppins got it wrong, why becoming a parent at age 40 requires a bit of extra effort and why she stores her Oscars...
...awards season that revs up next Monday with the Golden Globes and peaks on March 5, Oscar night, some of the actors celebrated here will hear their names called; some won't. We're not giving out statuettes, just thank-you notes to seven people who wrote their artistry on the screen...