The Oscar race is heating up. Just 15 films remain in the running for the Documentary Feature category for the 91st Academy Awards. Over 160 films were originally submitted for consideration.
Eight of the titles to make the cut are women directed or co-directed, amounting to about 53 percent of the list. The features up for honors include Sandi Tan’s “Shirkers,” an investigation into what happened to a missing film she made as a teenager, Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s “RBG,” a portrait of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Free Solo,” a look inside Alex Honnold’s quest to climb Yosemite’s 3,000ft high El Capitan Wall without using ropes or harnesses.
Oscar nominations will be announced January 22, and the ceremony will take place February 24.
“Faces Places” was the only doc feature helmed by a woman to receive a nod at the 2018 edition of the Academy Awards. Agnès Varda co-directed the road trip film.
Check out all of the women-directed and co-directed films on the short list for the 2019 Oscars below.
“Charm City” – Directed by Marilyn Ness
“Communion” – Directed by Anna Zamecka
“Dark Money” – Directed by Kimberly Reed
“Free Solo” – Co-Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
“On Her Shoulders” – Directed by Alexandria Bombach
“RBG” – Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West
“The Silence of Others” – Co-Directed by Almudena Carracedo
“Shirkers” – Directed by Sandi Tan
