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It's not the winning... the nominees for the best actor Oscar 2011: Javier Bardem (Biutiful), James Franco (127 Hours) Colin Firth (The King's Speech),Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
It's not the winning... the nominees for the best actor Oscar 2011: Javier Bardem (Biutiful), James Franco (127 Hours) Colin Firth (The King's Speech),Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
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Oscars 2011: full list of winners

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A full list of winners and nominees for the Oscars 2011

Best motion picture of the year

WINNER: The King's Speech
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

Performance by an actor in a leading role

WINNER: Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
James Franco (127 Hours)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

WINNER: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Achievement in directing

WINNER: Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David O Russell (The Fighter)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

Art direction

WINNER: Alice in Wonderland - Robert Stromberg (production design), Karen O'Hara (set decoration)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Stuart Craig (production design), Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)
Inception - Guy Hendrix Dyas (production design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (set decoration)
The King's Speech - Eve Stewart (production design), Judy Farr (set decoration)
True Grit - Jess Gonchor (production design), Nancy Haigh (set decoration)

Achievement in cinematography

WINNER: Wally Pfister (Inception)
Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
Danny Cohen (The King's Speech)
Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network)
Roger Deakins (True Grit)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

WINNER: Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

Best animated short film

WINNER: The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
Let's Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) (Bastien Dubois)

Best animated feature film of the year

WINNER: Toy Story 3
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist

Adapted screenplay

WINNER: The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
127 Hours - Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt (screenplay); John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (story)
True Grit - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone - Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Original screenplay

WINNER: The King's Speech - David Seidler
Another Year - Mike Leigh
The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (screenplay); Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story)
Inception - Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg

Best foreign language film of the year

WINNER: In a Better World (Denmark)
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (Algeria)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

WINNER: Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)

WINNER: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network)
John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
Hans Zimmer (Inception)
Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech)
AR Rahman (127 Hours)

Achievement in sound mixing

WINNER: Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo and Ed Novick)
The King's Speech (Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley)
Salt (Jeffrey J Haboush, Greg P Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin)
The Social Network (Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F Kurland)

Achievement in sound editing

WINNER: Inception (Richard King)
Toy Story 3 (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
Tron: Legacy (Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey)
Unstoppable (Mark P Stoeckinger)

Achievement in makeup

WINNER: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey (The Wolfman)
Adrien Morot (Barney's Version)
Edouard F Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng (The Way Back)

Achievement in costume design

WINNER: Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland)
Antonella Cannarozzi (I Am Love)
Jenny Beavan (The King's Speech)
Sandy Powell (The Tempest)
Mary Zophres (True Grit)

Best documentary short subject

WINNER: Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Killing in the Name (Nominees to be determined)
Poster Girl (Nominees to be determined)
Sun Come Up (Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger)
The Warriors of Qiugang (Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon)

Best live action short film

WINNER: God of Love (Luke Matheny)
The Confession (Tanel Toom)
The Crush (Michael Creagh)
Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)

Best documentary feature

WINNER: Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz)
Gasland (Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger)
Waste Land (Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley)

Achievement in visual effects

WINNER: Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Alice in Wonderland (Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi)
Hereafter (Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell)
Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick)

Achievement in film editing

WINNER: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (The Social Network)
Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan)
Pamela Martin (The Fighter)
Tariq Anwar (The King's Speech)
Jon Harris (127 Hours)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song)

WINNER:
We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3, music and lyrics by Randy Newman)
Coming Home (from Country Strong, music and lyrics by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey)
I See the Light (from Tangled, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater)
If I Rise (from 127 Hours, music by AR Rahman, lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong)

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Oscars 2011: Inside Job banks best documentary award

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Charles Ferguson's documentary about the origins of the financial crash comes out on top in Oscar race
Follow our Oscars 2011 live coverage here

Inside Job, a searing assault on the banking industry and its role in the financial meltdown of 2008, has won the ultimate accolade from the film world: the Oscar for best documentary.

Director Charles Ferguson, who became a film-maker after making millions of dollars developing internet software, had lost out at the Oscars before, when his 2007 film about the Iraq war, No End in Sight, was nominated, but this time he had a happy ending.

Inside Job, which premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2010, traces the connections between government and financial institutions, as well as theoretically independent academics, showing how they combined to trigger excessive profit-taking and endanger the wider economy.

With this victory, Inside Job has outperformed an equally devastating attack on American politics, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore's movie wasn't even nominated.

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\n 1.\n \n American Dream\n (1990)\n

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\n PG-13\n | \n 98 min\n | \n \nDocumentary \n

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\nRecounts the 1985-86 strike against the Hormel Foods Corporation in Minnesota after its employees' wages and benefits were cut.

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\n Directors:\nBarbara Kopple, \nCathy Caplan, \nThomas Haneke, \nLawrence Silk\n | \n Stars:\nLewie Anderson, \nR.J. Bergstrom, \nRon Bergstrom, \nWayne Goodnature\n

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\n Votes:\n 1,003\n | Gross:\n $0.27M\n \n

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\n 2.\n \n In the Shadow of the Stars\n (1991)\n

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\n Not Rated\n | \n 93 min\n | \n \nDocumentary \n

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\nWinner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, this film is a hilarious and affectionate look at the path to stardom inside the competitive world of opera.

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\n Directors:\nAllie Light, \nIrving Saraf\n | \n Star:\nWilliam S. Jones\n

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\n Votes:\n 209\n \n

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\n 3.\n \n The Panama Deception\n (1992)\n

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\n \n 91 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, History, War \n

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\nA film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.

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\n Director:\nBarbara Trent\n | \n Stars:\nElizabeth Montgomery, \nCarlos Cant\u00fa, \nDiviana Ingravallo, \nAbraham Alvarez\n

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\n Votes:\n 1,162\n | Gross:\n $0.31M\n \n

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\n 4.\n \n I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School\n (1993)\n

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\n \n 89 min\n | \n \nDocumentary \n

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\nFilmmakers Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond document Philadelphia teachers facing challenges at an inner-city school.

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\n Director:\nSusan Raymond\n | \n Stars:\nSusan Raymond, \nDeanna Burney, \nClary Jansson\n

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\n Votes:\n 227\n \n

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\n 5.\n \n Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision\n (1994)\n

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\n \n 105 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Biography \n

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\nA film about the work of the artist most famous for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.

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\n Director:\nFreida Lee Mock\n | \n Star:\nMaya Lin\n

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\n Votes:\n 530\n | Gross:\n $0.06M\n \n

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\n 6.\n \n Anne Frank Remembered\n (1995)\n

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\n PG\n | \n 117 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Biography, War \n

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\nTells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.

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\n Director:\nJon Blair\n | \n Stars:\nKenneth Branagh, \nGlenn Close, \nIsa Baschwitz, \nMary Bos\n

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\n Votes:\n 1,334\n | Gross:\n $1.31M\n \n

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\n 7.\n \n When We Were Kings\n (1996)\n

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\n PG\n | \n 88 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Sport \n

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\nBoxing documentary on the 1974 world heavyweight championship bout between defending champion, George Foreman, and the underdog challenger, Muhammad Ali.

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\n Director:\nLeon Gast\n | \n Stars:\nMuhammad Ali, \nGeorge Foreman, \nDon King, \nJames Brown\n

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\n Votes:\n 19,059\n | Gross:\n $2.79M\n \n

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\n 8.\n \n The Long Way Home\n (1997)\n

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\nThe story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

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\n Director:\nMark Jonathan Harris\n | \n Stars:\nMorgan Freeman, \nIsrael Lau, \nLivia Shacter, \nAbraham Klausner\n

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\n Votes:\n 1,267\n \n

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\n 9.\n \n The Last Days\n (1998)\n

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\nIn late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the \"cleansing\" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary... See full summary »\n

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\n Director:\nJames Moll\n | \n Stars:\nBill Basch, \nMartin Basch, \nRandolph Braham, \nAlice Lok Cahana\n

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\n Votes:\n 5,713\n | Gross:\n $0.42M\n \n

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\n 10.\n \n One Day in September\n (1999)\n

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\n R\n | \n 94 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, History, Sport \n

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\nThe Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

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\n Director:\nKevin Macdonald\n | \n Stars:\nMichael Douglas, \nAnkie Spitzer, \nJamal Al Gashey, \nGerald Seymour\n

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\n Votes:\n 6,221\n | Gross:\n $0.16M\n \n

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\n 11.\n \n Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport\n (2000)\n

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\n PG\n | \n 122 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, History, War \n

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\nThe secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.

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\n Director:\nMark Jonathan Harris\n | \n Stars:\nJudi Dench, \nLory Cahn, \nKurt Fuchel, \nEva Hayman\n

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\n Votes:\n 1,948\n | Gross:\n $0.37M\n \n

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\n 12.\n \n Murder on a Sunday Morning\n (2001)\n

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\nOscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida.

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\n Director:\nJean-Xavier de Lestrade\n | \n Stars:\nAnn Finnell, \nPatrick McGuinness, \nJames Williams, \nMichael Glover\n

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\n Votes:\n 4,497\n \n

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\n 13.\n \n Bowling for Columbine\n (2002)\n

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\n R\n | \n 120 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Crime, Drama \n

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\nFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.

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\n Director:\nMichael Moore\n | \n Stars:\nMichael Moore, \nCharlton Heston, \nMarilyn Manson, \nSalvador Allende\n

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\n Votes:\n 148,488\n | Gross:\n $21.58M\n \n

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\n 14.\n \n The Fog of War\n (2003)\n

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\n PG-13\n | \n 107 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Biography, History \n

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\nThe story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.

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\n Director:\nErrol Morris\n | \n Stars:\nRobert McNamara, \nJohn F. Kennedy, \nFidel Castro, \nRichard Nixon\n

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\n Votes:\n 24,977\n | Gross:\n $4.20M\n \n

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\n 15.\n \n Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids\n (2004)\n

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\n R\n | \n 85 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Biography, News \n

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\nTwo documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.

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\n Directors:\nZana Briski, \nRoss Kauffman\n | \n Stars:\nKochi, \nAvijit Halder, \nShanti Das, \nManik\n

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\n Votes:\n 17,959\n | Gross:\n $3.41M\n \n

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\n 16.\n \n March of the Penguins\n (2005)\n

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\n G\n | \n 80 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Family \n

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\nIn the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family.

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\n Director:\nLuc Jacquet\n | \n Stars:\nMorgan Freeman, \nRomane Bohringer, \nCharles Berling, \nJules Sitruk\n

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\n Votes:\n 59,829\n | Gross:\n $77.44M\n \n

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\n 17.\n \n An Inconvenient Truth\n (2006)\n

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\n PG\n | \n 96 min\n | \n \nDocumentary \n

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\nFilmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.

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\n Director:\nDavis Guggenheim\n | \n Stars:\nAl Gore, \nBilly West, \nGeorge Bush, \nGeorge W. Bush\n

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\n Votes:\n 85,092\n | Gross:\n $23.81M\n \n

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\n 18.\n \n Taxi to the Dark Side\n (2007)\n

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\n R\n | \n 106 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Crime, History \n

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\nAlex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.

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\n Director:\nAlex Gibney\n | \n Stars:\nAlex Gibney, \nBrian Keith Allen, \nMoazzam Begg, \nChristopher Beiring\n

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\n Votes:\n 16,764\n | Gross:\n $0.27M\n \n

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\n 19.\n \n Man on Wire\n (2008)\n

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\n PG-13\n | \n 94 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Biography, Crime \n

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\nA look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, \"the artistic crime of the century\".

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\n Director:\nJames Marsh\n | \n Stars:\nPhilippe Petit, \nJean Fran\u00e7ois Heckel, \nJean-Louis Blondeau, \nAnnie Allix\n

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\n Votes:\n 58,529\n | Gross:\n $2.96M\n \n

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\n 20.\n \n The Cove\n (2009)\n

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\nUsing state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.

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\n Director:\nLouie Psihoyos\n | \n Stars:\nRichard O'Barry, \nLouie Psihoyos, \nHardy Jones, \nMichael Illiff\n

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\n Votes:\n 51,336\n | Gross:\n $0.87M\n \n

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\n 21.\n \n Inside Job\n (2010)\n

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\n PG-13\n | \n 109 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Crime \n

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\nTakes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

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\n Director:\nCharles Ferguson\n | \n Stars:\nMatt Damon, \nGylfi Zoega, \nAndri Sn\u00e6r Magnason, \nSigridur Benediktsdottir\n

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\n 22.\n \n Undefeated\n (2011)\n

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\nChronicles three underprivileged students from inner-city Memphis and their volunteer coach who tries to help them beat the odds on and off the field.

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\n Directors:\nDaniel Lindsay, \nT.J. Martin\n | \n Stars:\nBill Courtney, \nO.C. Brown, \nMontrail 'Money' Brown, \nChavis Daniels\n

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\n 23.\n \n Searching for Sugar Man\n (2012)\n

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\n PG-13\n | \n 86 min\n | \n \nDocumentary, Biography, Music \n

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\nTwo South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.

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\n Director:\nMalik Bendjelloul\n | \n Stars:\nRodriguez, \nStephen 'Sugar' Segerman, \nDennis Coffey, \nMike Theodore\n

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\n Votes:\n 72,657\n | Gross:\n $3.97M\n \n

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\n 24.\n \n Twenty Feet from Stardom\n (2013)\n

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\nBackup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

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\n Director:\nMorgan Neville\n | \n Stars:\nDarlene Love, \nMerry Clayton, \nLisa Fischer, \nJudith Hill\n

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\n Votes:\n 13,912\n | Gross:\n $4.95M\n \n

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\n 25.\n \n Citizenfour\n (2014)\n

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\nA documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

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\n Director:\nLaura Poitras\n | \n Stars:\nEdward Snowden, \nGlenn Greenwald, \nWilliam Binney, \nJacob Appelbaum\n

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\n Votes:\n 57,843\n | Gross:\n $2.80M\n \n

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\n 26.\n \n Amy\n (III) (2015)\n

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\nArchival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.

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\n Director:\nAsif Kapadia\n | \n Stars:\nAmy Winehouse, \nMitch Winehouse, \nMark Ronson, \nRussell Brand\n

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\n Votes:\n 54,689\n | Gross:\n $8.41M\n \n

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\n 27.\n \n O.J.: Made in America\n (2016)\n

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\nA chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

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\n Director:\nEzra Edelman\n | \n Stars:\nKareem Abdul-Jabbar, \nMike Albanese, \nMuhammad Ali, \nMarcus Allen\n

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O.J. Simpson in an undated photograph, shown in the film \u201cO.J.: Made in America.\u201dCredit...ESPN Films

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Here are our lists of the best TV shows on Netflix, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video and the best of everything on Disney Plus.

The \u201cBest Documentary Feature\u201d category at the Academy Awards used to be something only the most devoted cinephiles cared much about. But over the past 20 years, docs have swelled in popularity, thanks in part to crowd-pleasing hits like \u201cFree Solo\u201d and \u201cMarch of the Penguins\u201d \u2014 and thanks also to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu making these movies easier to watch.

(Note: The dates reflect the year a film was in competition, not necessarily its U.S. theatrical release.)

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A scene from \u201cAmerican Factory.\u201dCredit...Netflix

The filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert bring some valuable perspective to some of the biggest issues facing the global economy in their absorbing, illuminating and often quite funny film, which tracks what happened when a Chinese company opened a glass plant in the U.S. heartland. While charting the differences between Chinese and American work habits \u2014 as well the differences in the workers\u2019 expectations \u2014 Bognar and Reichert tell a story that\u2019s ultimately about the changing nature of labor in our increasingly automated age.

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Alex Honnold climbing on El Capitan\u2019s Freerider in Yosemite National Park in the documentary \u201cFree Solo.\u201dCredit...Jimmy Chin/National Geographic

In 2017, the accomplished mountain-climber Alex Honnold attempted to ascend Yosemite\u2019s towering El Capitan formation with no ropes or other safety equipment to prevent him from falling thousands of feet if he lost his grip. The husband-and-wife filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi recorded the entire adventure, from the planning to the climb, focusing primarily on Honnold\u2019s uncanny calmness as he risked his life to achieve something extraordinary. This movie is a fascinating character study, as well as a harrowing document of extreme risk.

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Bryan Fogel in \u201cIcarus.\u201dCredit...Netflix

In its early scenes, this investigative documentary from Bryan Fogel has the director using himself as a guinea pig, taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs to find out whether they actually give athletes an edge. But entering this world of black-market dope peddlers puts Fogel in contact with shady characters, and as he gets to know these crooks and doctors, his film\u2019s emphasis shifts from what P.E.D.s do for individuals to the many ways that international crime syndicates \u2014 some of them covertly state-sponsored \u2014 have corrupted Olympic sports. What starts as a quirkily personal sports doc turns into a political thriller.

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O.J. Simpson in the mid-1970s.Credit...M. Osterreicher/ESPN Films

In retrospect, the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial was a pivotal moment in American history, exposing this country\u2019s racial, gender and wealth disparities. ESPN\u2019s five-part docu-series \u201cO.J.: Made in America,\u201d directed by Ezra Edelman, covers all those topics, framing them with the career of a football star who was thriving in showbiz before he was accused of killing his wife. Edelman widens his scope beyond the crime by considering the history of racially insensitive policing in Los Angeles and the question of whether money and fame allows some people to avoid facing consequences.

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Amy Winehouse in “Amy.”Credit...A24

Cameras seemed to capture every moment of soul singer Amy Winehouse\u2019s brief, painful life, whether they were held by friends and lovers or shoved into her face by paparazzi. Using this raw and often invasive footage, this brilliant biography by director Asif Kapadia paints a compassionate portrait of the troubled yet immensely talented artist, and implicates our collective fascination with tabloid train-wreck stories in her death. Thankfully, the downward spiral has built-in uplift in the form of Winehouse\u2019s tender, velvety singing voice.

In 2013, from a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden leaked documents showing that U.S. cyberintelligence was monitoring the communications of hundreds of millions of people around the world. Filmmaker Laura Poitras was in the room with him and journalist Glenn Greenwald, chronicling Snowden\u2019s seismic revelations and the aftermath. The result is this suspenseful espionage thriller, complete with code names, classified information written on scraps of paper and testimonies before German Parliament. While Greenwald broke the news in The Guardian, Poitras turned it into art.

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Jo Lawry, Judith Hill and Lisa Fischer in “20 Feet From Stardom.\u201dCredit...Radius-TWC

This lighthearted jaunt by director Morgan Neville profiles several backup singers, including Darlene Love and Merry Clayton, whose most memorable recordings were made standing behind the main attraction. We learn about these women\u2019s roles in shaping the classic-rock canon in songs from the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lou Reed and many more, and the film rousingly ends in a heartwarming staged concert with the backups singing lead, however briefly. Although the film provides many inspirational moments, this is no simple tune: It is also an examination of the various factors that can qualify (or disqualify) one for the American spotlight involved \u2014 not just talent and luck, but also gender, race and age.

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Credit...Malik Bendjelloul/Sony Pictures Classics

In his hometown, Detroit, in the 1970s, Rodriguez was a failed folk singer-songwriter with two flop albums to his name. But in South Africa he was a Dylanesque hero, his songs having become anthems for the anti-apartheid movement. This precise narrative by director Malik Bendjelloul begins by introducing us to the fans who kept Rodriguez alive, then leads us upstream, via masterful pacing, as they discover what became of their phantom prophet.

Winning the big game is a small victory for a high school football team compared with a player\u2019s going to college: That\u2019s one of the life lessons imparted by Bill Courtney, a volunteer coach who runs a scrappy program at a tough North Memphis high school. For this uplifting underdog sports story, directors Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin follow a pivotal season with Courtney\u2019s team, as its fortunes \u2014 and its individual players \u2014 crest and fall before the title reveals itself in unexpected ways.

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From left, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner as seen in \u201cThe Inside Job.\u201dCredit...Sony Pictures Classics

Before \u201cThe Big Short\u201d came this furious denouncement of the corporate and political skulduggery that led to the 2008 financial crisis. As director Charles Ferguson breaks down the concepts of deregulation, credit default swaps and the housing bubble, he makes no secret of the anger he feels toward investment banks, Treasury Department officials and any current or former economist unfortunate enough to step in front of his camera. Ferguson reframes the Great Recession from being just a story about money to one about the cynical and greedy betrayal of American values.

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Philippe Petit walking across a cable between towers of the World Trade Center.Credit...Alan Welner/Associated Press

In 1974, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit sneaked with his crew to the top of the World Trade Center in New York, still under construction at the time, and strung a wire between the two towers; Petit then performed a tightrope act on the wire for nearly an hour. This wildly entertaining account of the vertiginous escapade, by director James Marsh, is the perfect heist movie \u2014 filled with tense pacing and thrilling re-enactments of the crack team at work. The film trains its vision on the \u201chow\u201d of the operation rather than the \u201cwhy,\u201d and yet still makes a case for dreaming (and building) crazy, wonderful things.

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Afghan detainees being walked to a Chinook helicopter in a scene from the film \u201cTaxi to the Dark Side.\u201dCredit...Darren McCollester/Getty Images

One of the earliest films from the prolific documentarian Alex Gibney uses one person\u2019s terrifying tale as a way into a larger conversation about the ethics and the efficacy of torture as a tool of war. While detailing the fate of an Afghani taxi driver who was beaten to death while in U.S. custody, Gibney\u2019s well-researched and disturbingly persuasive doc also covers the sequence of small but inexorable steps that led to letting the unconscionable become an accepted feature of American foreign policy.

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Al Gore in \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth.\u201dCredit...Eric Lee/Paramount Classics

Many Americans\u2019 first education on the dangers of climate change came through this 2006 documentary by Davis Guggenheim based on a traveling lecture series by Al Gore. In this breathless film, Gore transforms every methodical tool of the college instructor (PowerPoint slides, graphs of rising temperatures, bulleted lists on fossil fuels) into angry, riveting, impassioned warning bells. Although the film became a rallying cry for environmentalists, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have continued to climb higher, recently surpassing the \u201ctipping point\u201d Gore warns about in the film.

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One of the feathered families in \u201cMarch of the Penguins.\u201dCredit...J\u00e9rome Maison/Bonne Pioche

Accompanied by Morgan Freeman\u2019s inimitable baritone narration, thousands of emperor penguins must use all their instincts to breed and survive in Antarctica\u2019s harsh subzero environment. This lyrical nature documentary by director Luc Jacquet, which gave audiences an exotic close-up look at the penguins\u2019 annual mating journey over the course of a year, was a smash hit upon its 2005 release: Though their environs are punishing, the adorable waddlers come across as winning heroes who survive not because of any exceptional bravado, but because it\u2019s just what they do \u2014 year after year.

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A scene from the 2004 documentary \u201cBorn Into Brothels.\u201dCredit...ThinkFilm, via Everett Collection

Two stories interweave throughout this intimate social-issue documentary, directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski. One is about how Briski taught the children of Calcutta\u2019s red light district how to use cameras, allowing them to capture their sometimes shocking living conditions. The other story involves Briski\u2019s navigation of various bureaucracies in an effort to get the authorities to place these children in better schools. What emerges is both an unflinching portrait of extreme poverty and an illustration of how art can illuminate our common humanity.

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Robert S. McNamara in \u201cThe Fog of War.\u201dCredit...Claire Folger/Sony Pictures Entertainment

The former defense secretary Robert McNamara, a chief architect of the Vietnam War, imparts the \u201c11 lessons\u201d he learned while orchestrating the drawn-out conflict under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. An animated and occasionally dodgy presence on camera, McNamara is at once defensive of and distraught by his legacy, which makes him the ideal foil for director Errol Morris\u2019s dogged pursuit of the truth behind the war\u2019s justification and execution.

In the aftermath of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, Michael Moore plunged into the American gun debate with his usual mix of impassioned advocacy and impish humor. His filmmaking techniques and open partisanship are polarizing for a reason, as the movie often simplifies complex issues to score political points. But Moore\u2019s interviews yield revelatory glimpses into the dark side of human nature, and force us to reckon with our inability to hold a rational discussion about guns, even as the number of mass shootings has only mounted since Moore\u2019s film was released.

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