12月18日，美國電影藝術與科學學院公布了第91屆奧斯卡的9個獎項類別候選名單，包括「最佳外語片」、「最佳紀錄片」、「最佳原創歌曲」、「最佳視覺效果」等。紀錄片方面，有15部入圍初選，今年熱門的華裔導演劉冰的《滑板少年》與《魯斯·巴德·金斯伯格》《逃避者》《孿生陌生人》《與我為鄰》等攜手入圍。據悉，本屆奧斯卡頒獎典禮將於當地時間2019年2月24日舉行。
「最佳紀錄片」初選15強名單01
Charm city
《魅力之城》
導演：Marilyn Ness
製片國家／地區：美國
語言：英語
片長：108分鐘
On the streets of Baltimore, shooting is rampant, the murder rate is approaching an all-time high and the distrust of the police is at a fever pitch. With nerves frayed and neighborhoods in distress, dedicated community leaders, compassionate law-enforcement officers and a progressive young city councilman try to stem the epidemic of violence. Filmed over three tumultuous years covering the lead up to, and aftermath of, Freddie Gray’s death in police custody, CHARM CITY is an intimate cinema verité portrait of those surviving in, and fighting for, the vibrant city they call home. Directed by renowned documentary producer Marilyn Ness .
02
Communion Los Angeles
《交往》
導演: Adam R. Levine / Peter Bo Rappmund
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 無對白
片長: 68分鐘
Communion Los Angeles explores California’s oldest freeway as it courses from the mountains to the ocean, defining and dividing the communities it is designed to serve. The video is equinoctial, and presents the 35-miles of blacktop as both infrastructure and architecture as it highlights dichotomies of mobility, technology and urban space.
03
Crime＋Punishment
《罪與罰》
導演：Stephen Maing
製片國家／地區：美國
語言：英語
片長：112分鐘
本片以轟動的針對非法警察配額的集體訴訟為背景，以一群名為「NYPD12（紐約警局 12 人組）」的黑人及拉美裔警官的視角，歷時四年記錄了美國紐約警局的治安執法過程。這些警官冒著巨大風險揭發警局的不當行徑，如執法中的種族歧視、深存於警局體系中的打擊報復和腐敗問題。
因為沒有達到規定的在少數族裔社區的抓捕配額，這些少數族裔警官都曾被處罰，所以他們秘密地聚到一起，決定把這些騷擾記錄下來，並發起了轟動全市的集體訴訟。無人訴苦，「NYPD12」便用長官和警員的對話錄音、原始帳單和感人的證詞向世人揭示真相。同時，已轉行為私家偵探的前警官曼紐爾·戈麥斯，也在向那些曾受以打擊犯罪為名義的警察騷擾的少數族裔的年輕人搜集證詞。
04
Dirty Money
《黑錢》
導演: Kimberly Reed
片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 99分鐘
"Dark money" contributions, made possible by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, flood modern American elections – but Montana is showing Washington D.C. how to solve the problem of unlimited anonymous money in politics.
05
The Distant Barking of Dogs
《遠方的狗吠聲》
導演: Simon Lereng Wilmont
製片國家/地區: 丹麥
語言: 俄語
片長：90分鐘
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the ...
06
National Geographic: Free Solo
《徒手攀巖》
導演: 金國威 / 伊莉莎白·柴·瓦沙瑞莉
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 97分鐘
From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (「MERU」) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock...the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park…without a rope.
Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.
07
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
《黑爾郡的日與夜》
導演: RaMell Ross
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 76分鐘
有關於歷史悠久的美國南部生活。
08
Minding the Gap
《滑板少年》
導演: 劉冰
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 93分鐘
三個滑板同伴成長於鐵鏽地帶——美國東北工業區，一個數十年來受到經濟衰退的沉重打擊的地方。影片跟隨這三個年輕人成長的旅程，探索父子之間的隔閡，訓教和虐待之間的差別，以及從童年過渡到成年之間必須經歷刻骨銘心的愛與痛，這是不可逾越的鴻溝嗎？
09
Of Fathers and Sons
《恐怖分子的孩子》
導演: Talal Derki
製片國家/地區: 德國 / 美國 / 敘利亞 / 黎巴嫩 / 荷蘭 / 卡達
語言: 阿拉伯語
片長: 100分鐘
塔拉勒·德克回到了他的家鄉，在那裡他獲得了一個激進的伊斯蘭家庭的信任，並分享他們的日常生活長達兩年多。他的照相機提供了一種極為罕見的洞察，了解在伊斯蘭哈裡髮長大意味著什麼。
10
On Her Shoulders
《她的使命》
導演: Alexandria Bombach
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 94分鐘
Mobbed by iPhone cameras and pushy reporters, 23-year-old Nadia Murad leads a harrowing but vital crusade: to find the most influential platforms in the world and speak out on behalf of the embattled Yazidi community who face mass extermination by ISIS militants. Having narrowly escaped with her own life, Nadia must now relentlessly recount on radio shows, at rallies, and even on the floor of the United Nation’s general assembly her ordeal as a Yazidi sex slave and witness to her family’s brutal killings. Though excruciating, she forces herself to revisit these realities again and again. For without her testimony, the genocide happening right in front of the world’s eyes might go completely unnoticed.
With a formal precision and elegance that matches Nadia’s calm and steely demeanor, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach brings us inside an exhausting, destabilizing journey fraught with personal pain and profound ethical urgency. From the refugee camps in Greece to the gilded halls of power, we observe a woman repurpose unimaginable trauma into a powerful rallying cry for justice.
11
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
《魯斯·巴斯·金斯伯格》
導演: 朱莉·科昂 / 貝齊·韋斯特
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 98分鐘
魯斯·巴德·金斯伯格是美國聯邦最高法院的第二位女性法官、第一位猶太裔女性法官，哥倫比亞法學院歷史上第一位獲得終身教職（tenure）的女性，最高法院的自由派法官之一。影片講述了美國聯邦最高法院有史以來第二位女性大法官魯斯·巴德·金斯伯格的生平事跡。
12
Shirkers
逃避者
導演: 陳善治
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 95分鐘
1992年，少年譚珊蒂和她的朋友索菲和茉莉拍攝了新加坡的第一部獨立電影-一部名為「偷懶者」的公路電影-和他們神秘的美國導師喬治·卡多納(Georges Cardona)一起拍攝。桑迪寫了劇本，飾演主角，一個叫S的殺手。
拍攝結束後，喬治和所有的鏡頭一起消失了！20年後，16毫米罐在紐奧良被找到，桑迪-現在是洛杉磯的小說家-開始了一場跨越兩大洲和許多媒體的新的個人奧德賽：16毫米、數碼、Hi8、Super8、幻燈片、動畫和手寫信件。萬花筒朋克搖滾鬼故事！
13
The Silence of Others
《旁人的沉默》
導演: 阿爾穆德娜·卡拉塞羅 / 羅伯特·巴哈爾
製片國家/地區: 美國 / 西班牙
片長: 95分鐘
José Galantes cannot and will not accept that his torturer is living only a few metres away from him, unpunished. Maria Martín is fighting to ensure that her father’s bones are exhumed from a mass grave and buried next to her mother’s remains. However, an amnesty law passed by a large majority in the Spanish parliament in 1977 not only guaranteed the release of all political prisoners, but also prohibited prosecution of any of the crimes committed by Franco’s dictatorship. For this reason, many atrocities remain unsolved to this day. Over a period of six years, the filmmakers spoke to victims, relatives and human rights lawyers about their long-standing struggle to obtain admissions of guilt and the abolition of the amnesty law. Their film also describes how a movement that began in someone’s kitchen eventually succeeded in gaining sufficient awareness for suppressed injustice that an international trial was held, during which arrest warrants were issued against no fewer than twenty former perpetrators of Franco’s regime. This intelligently edited film suffused by symbolic visuals paints a picture of a still-divided society, torn between forgetting and coming to terms with its past.
14
Three Identical Strangers
《孿生陌生人》
導演: 蒂姆·瓦德爾
製片國家/地區: 英國
語言: 英語
片長: 96分鐘
三位離散了19年的雙胞胎，在經歷了一陣新聞娛樂真人秀狂歡之後，竟然發現了一個黑暗的學術陰謀。
15
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
《與我為鄰》
導演: 摩根·內維爾
製片國家/地區: 美國
語言: 英語
片長: 94分鐘
弗雷德·羅傑斯以他溫和的嗓音和發自內心的智慧，為幾代美國兒童提供了一個富有同情心的代理父親。他相信愛情是生活的基本要素，能夠幫助孩子度過困難的處境，僅僅是用手工木偶來表示寬容和接受。羅傑斯是一個被任命的長老會牧師，他直接和公開地向孩子們講述了他畢生的工作，包括他的長期演出。他站在一個致力於滿足兒童特殊需求的運動的最前線，並被認為是一個激進的支持者，他說:「我喜歡你就是你的樣子。」
動畫序列在羅傑斯先生的鄰居的存檔鏡頭和對弗雷德羅傑斯的家人，朋友和同事的採訪中穿插。在研究羅傑斯的遺產時，奧斯卡獲獎導演摩根·奈維爾(20英尺的明星)為一個真實的人類提供了深思熟慮和美麗的禮物，為這些令人擔憂的時代提供了一種非常需要的慰藉。
「最佳紀錄片」和「最佳外語片」入圍名單
「最佳紀錄片」入圍名單
[魅力之城]
[交往]
[罪與罰]
[黑錢]
[遠方的狗吠聲]
[徒手攀巖]
[黑爾郡的日與夜]
[滑板少年]
[恐怖分子的孩子]
[她的使命]
[魯斯·巴斯·金斯伯格]
[逃避者]
[旁人的沉默]
[孿生陌生人]
[與我為鄰]
「最佳外語片」入圍名單
[候鳥]
[罪人]
[無主之作]
[小偷家族]
[小傢伙]
[迦百農]
[羅馬]
[冷戰]
[燃燒]
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