With The Betrayal, we have now seen all last years nominees for an Oscar, and I am prepared to present the Andrew Award for Best Documentary feature film.
The nominees are:
The Betrayal: Nerakhoon
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
First of all, Encounters at the End of the World was terrible. It should never have been nominated for best of ANYTHING!
The 3 movies The Betrayal, The Garden and Trouble the Water were all great movies. Of the three, The Garden hit me the hardest and seemed like the best movie.
But, the winner, by a pretty large margin is Man on Wire! (Standing Ovation)
I was very skeptical about this movie. I had heard great things about it from really good reviewers, but frankly it sounded boring. It was NOT! It was intriguing a showed like suspense thriller. It chronicled Philippe Petit's amazing feat of tight rope walking between the Twin Towers. This movie was breathtaking in its content and how it was presented,a true testament to documentary films (a genre that has been very prolific in the past 5-7 years).
This time The Andrew Awards and the Oscars agreed on the recipient. At least the Academy got it right THIS time.
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