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November 29, 2011
Oscar fever! Yards docu-ganda on short list for little gold statue
The Brooklyn Paper
by Daniel Bush
Can we stop with the "docu-ganda" already? Even Errol Louis thinks Battle for Brooklyn was fair and balanced.
The Atlantic Yards documentary, “Battle for Brooklyn,” has a fighting chance to take home one of Tinseltown’s top trophies.
Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s exhaustive history of the Prospect Heights mega-project and 14 other true-life tales have been short-listed for an Oscar nomination in the Documentary Feature category by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The husband-and-wife team of filmmakers from Clinton Hill spent eight years making the documentary, but said the possibility of winning a little gold man was the farthest thing from their minds when they started the project in 2003.
NoLandGrab: As for The Brooklyn Paper's Academy Award prognostications, they wrote this back in June:
Sure, a little less hagiography on Dan Goldstein and a lot more Kelo could’ve made this an Oscar contender....
Posted by eric at November 29, 2011 11:31 AM