Best Documentary Feature: Finalists

The Academy has listed its 15 finalists for the Best Documentary Feature. I feel that Client 9, Inside Job, The Tillman Story, and Waiting for Superman are the top choices. This race could actually be interesting to watch, as there are a lot of high-profile contenders. I will update these predictions sometime this weekend. Also, kinda sad that the Joan Rivers doc didn't make the final cut, as it I thought it was pretty damn good. Oh well.

• “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” Alex Gibney, director (ES Productions LLC)
• “Enemies of the People,” Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, directors (Old Street Films)
• “Exit through the Gift Shop,” Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)
• “Gasland,” Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)
• “Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould,” Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont, directors (White Pine Pictures)
• “Inside Job,” Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)
• “The Lottery,” Madeleine Sackler, director (Great Curve Films)
• “Precious Life,” Shlomi Eldar, director (Origami Productions)
• “Quest for Honor,” Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, director (Smothers Bruni Productions)
• “Restrepo,” Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)
• “This Way of Life,” Thomas Burstyn, director (Cloud South Films)
• “The Tillman Story,” Amir Bar-Lev, director (Passion Pictures/Axis Films)
• “Waiting for ‘Superman’”, Davis Guggenheim, director (Electric Kinney Films)
• “Waste Land,” Lucy Walker, director (Almega Projects)
• “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe,” Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, directors (Disturbing the Universe LLC)