What will win best documentary 2011

So why not just call it a strong year for documentaries? For instance, you just have to figure that the branch is somehow prejudiced against director Steve James, who so famously got snubbed when his incredible Hoop Dreams was omitted.

And then, inevitably, the final winner is the most popular or most trendy amongst the nominees. I can skip the nominations cutoff and predict for you now, that the winner… will begin with a P! Interested in reading more about the controversy surrounding the Best Documentary Feature nominations in recent years? Moore's movie wasn't even nominated. This article is more than 10 years old. Winner The King's Speech.

Darren Aronofsky. The Fighter. David O. David Fincher. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Winner Inside Job. Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs. Exit through the Gift Shop. Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz. Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. Waste Land. Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley. Winner Strangers No More. Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon.

Killing in the Name. Jed Rothstein. Poster Girl. Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Sun Come Up. Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger. The Warriors of Qiugang. Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon.

Winner The Social Network. Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter. Andrew Weisblum. Pamela Martin. Winner In a Better World. Outside the Law Hors-la-loi. Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Francis Ford Coppola. Winner The Wolfman. Rick Baker and Dave Elsey. Barney's Version. The Way Back. Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng. Alexandre Desplat. Country Strong. Rahman; Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong. Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers. Darla K. Filmed without narration or ostensible politics, Restrepo should win commendation medals from soldiers and filmmakers alike.

But its you-are-there immediacy doesn't necessarily translate into a you-must-vote impulse. If there's a feel-good political film on the list, it's Walker's Waste Land. The film details New York artist Vik Muniz's plan to collaborate with Rio de Janeiro garbage pickers on a giant art project; the Brazilian artisans, flinty and charming, steal the show. Waste Land would have a decent shot at upsetting Inside Job Of course, that's Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop , with its improbable star: Thierry Guetta, a Frenchman who videotaped graffiti painters in Los Angeles and then became an art celebrity on his own.