Congrats to Oscar '08 Documentary Nominees!

I want to extend my congratulations to those filmmakers that have garnered Academy Award nominations for nonfiction this year.

Best Feature:

Charles Ferguson and Audrey Mars for No End in Sight
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine for War/Dance
Richard E. Robbins for Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Alex Gibney and Eva Orner for Taxi to the Darkside
Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara for Sicko

Best Short:

Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth for Freeheld (read my interview with Wade here)
James Longley for Sari's Mother
Amanda Mitchell and Isabel Vega for La Corona (The Crown) 
Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello for Salim Baba

The IDA is hosting a cocktail reception for the nominees at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills on Wednesday evening from 6:30 - 10:30, February 20.  And on Saturday the 23rd, the IDA will also host its annual DocuDay at the Writers Guild of America Theater, also in BH.  From 9:00 a.m. to midnight, all the nominated films are screened throughout the day and evening.  You can go to the IDA's website to learn more and to find out how to purchase tickets for these events.

The awards ceremony for the Oscars will take place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood Sunday, February 24.

I will be in Los Angeles that week covering all of these events, as well as Film Independent's 23rd Annual Spirit Awards in the big tent on the beach, Saturday, February 23.  I love New York so much, but I do miss that Pacific Ocean a whole bunch.

Again, congrats to all!