Awards Watch: Oscar Nominees for Best Documentaries

Without further ado, the nominees for the 81st Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature are:

• The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) - Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
• Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
• The Garden - Scott Hamilton Kennedy
• Man on Wire - James Marsh, Simon Chinn
• Trouble the Water - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal

The nominees for the Best Documentary Short are:

• The Conscience of Nhem En - Steven Okazaki
• The Final InchIrene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
• Smile Pinki - Megan Mylan
• The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306 - Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde

Additionally, Waltz With Bashir (Israel), the animated documentary directed by Ari Folman, is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.