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January 24, 2012
'Battle For Brooklyn' Doesn't Make Oscar Cut
Announced this morning, list of nominees leaves out Atlantic Yards doc.
Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Patch
by Paul Leonard
Weeks after making a list of 15 Oscar hopefuls, it's official: The Clinton Hill filmmakers behind the Atlantic Yards documentary, "Battle For Brooklyn," won't be strolling down the Kodak Theater's Hollywood red carpet after all.
The film, which has been shown across the country to acclaim, was left off of the list of five nominations announced in Los Angeles Tuesday morning.
Among the docs that did make the cut was Wim Wender's 3-D "Pina," an ode to the director of an innovative dance company that continues its run at BAM Rose Cinemas through this week.
Other films on the list include "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory," a film tracking the aftermath of the Robin Hood Hills murders in Arkansas, and "If the Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," which featured the story of one of ELF's members caught by police.
NoLandGrab: Paradise Lost 3, for one, was panned by The New York Times. We wuz robbed.
Posted by eric at January 24, 2012 11:00 AM