A Comment About

FILM: AL’S (UNDESERVED) OSCAR

January 15, 2007 - 1:30 am
Shawn Levasseur
2007-01-15 14:19:35

The thing that really ticks me off about the Documentary division is that so many of the nominees actually aren’t to be shown in theaters, but on TV.

In the recent few years there’s been notable exceptions in the feature division, but otherwise, most of these “Films” are made for PBS, HBO or some other cable outlet.

Let these shows compete for Emmys or Cable Aces. I cringe at every acceptance speech that thanks so and so over at “HBO”.

I may not like Michael Moore or Al Gore or what they stand for, but at least their films were available to the general public in theaters.