Politics at the Oscars: Documentaries nominated for Academy Awards
By Chris Steller |
01.22.09 | 11:22 am
The Academy Awards often draw attention to a cause or a plight or a social concern, particularly in the categories for documentary films, a genre still enjoying an extended revival. Even being among the nominees for the Oscar (as
Of all the guards implicated in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, Lynndie England stands alone. Her smiling thumbs up beside a line of hooded prisoners is hard to forget. But in one photo, the one where…
