A total of 134 nonfiction films were submitted for Oscar consideration this fall, and 50 of them (or 37% of the total) boast female directors or co-directors.
The award-hopefuls will be winnowed to a group of 15 semi-finalists next month.
The women-directed docs are listed below:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq” — Nancy Buirski
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” — Grace Lee
“Anita” — Frieda Mock
“Art and Craft”- Co-directed by Jennifer Grausman
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda” -Paola di Florio and Lisa Leeman
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity” — Catherine Gund
“Cesar’s Last Fast” — Co-directed by Lorena Parlee
“Citizen Koch”- Co-directed by Tia Lessin
“CitizenFour” — Laura Poitras
“Cyber-Seniors” — Saffron Cassaday
“Dancing in Jaffa”- Hilla Medilla
“The Decent One” — Vanessa Lapa
“The Dog”- Co-Directed by Allison Berg
“E-Team” — Co-directed by Katy Chevigny
“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me” — Chemi Karasawa
“Elena”- Petra Costa
“Fed Up”- Stephanie Soechtig
“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden” — Co-directed by Dayna Goldfine
“Getting to the Nutcracker” — Serene Meshel-Dillman
“The Great Invisible” — Margaret Brown
“The Hacker Wars” — Vivien Weisman
“I Am Ali” — Clare Lewins
“Journey of a Female Comic” — Co-directed by Kiki Melendez
“Last Days in Vietnam” — Rory Kennedy
“Last Hijack” — Co-directed by Femke Wolting
“Little White Lie” — Lacey Schwartz
“Llyn Foulkes One Man Band” — Co-directed by Tamar Halpern
“Manakamana” — Co-directed by Stephanie Spray
“Monk with a Camera” — Co-directed by Tina Mascara
“The Only Real Game” — Mirra Bank
“Pelican Dreams” — Judy Irving
“Plot for Peace” — Co-directed by Mandy Jacobson
“Private Violence” — Cynthia Hill
“Pump” — Co-directed by Rebecca Harrell Tickell
“Remote Area Medical” — Co-directed by Farihah Zaman
“Rich Hill” — Co-directed by Tracy Droz Trago
“The Rule” — Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno
“Shadows from My Past” — Co-directed by Gita Kaufman
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” — Mary Dore
“A Small Section of the World” — Lesley Chilcott
“The Supreme Price” — Joanna Lipper
“Tanzania: A Journey Within” — Sylvia Caminer
“Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence” — Co-directed by Elena Mannes
“20,000 Days on Earth” — Co-directed by Jane Pollard
“Under the Electric Sky” — Co-directed by Jane Lipsitz
“Underwater Dreams” — Mary Mazzio
“Waiting for August” — Teodora Milhai
“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago” — Lydia Smith
“Watchers of the Sky” — Edet Wurmfeld
“Watermark” — Co-directed by Jennifer Baichwal
[via THR]
