Waiting For Superman

Waiting For Superman

Fifteen movies have been selected to make it through to the next round of voting for the Documentary Feature category at the Oscars.

There had been 101 movies had originally been submitted for this category and had been whittled down to fifteen.

Another round of voting is set to go ahead and five movies will make the final line-up for the 83rd Academy Awards.

The likes of Waiting for Superman and Inside Job both make the cut after being left off the International Documentary Awards list of nominees.

Veteran documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney is also in the running for Client 9 while being praised by the critics Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work has been snubbed.

Here is the fifteen nominations:

* Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
* Enemies of the People
* Exit through the Gift Shop
* Gasland
* Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
* Inside Job
* The Lottery
* Precious Life
* Quest for Honor
* Restrepo
* This Way of Life
* The Tillman Story
* Waiting for Superman
* Waste Land
* William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

The nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011


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