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And the rules for foreign language are different than the rules for documentary, are different than the rules for short films.
But this summer (partly because of changes in the Academy Awards eligibility rules for documentary features, which require a weeklong, two-city theatrical run during the calendar year) theaters are bristling with true stories that are often stranger, more wonderful and scarier than the multiplex blockbusters.
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The academy's rules for documentaries have a reputation for complexity.
An article on Monday about changes in the rules for a documentary feature film to qualify for an Academy Award misstated the surname of the chief operating officer of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at one point.
LOS ANGELES — While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sorts out changing rules for its documentaries Oscars — having delayed the deadline for voting on its short list of candidates until Nov. 26 — the International Documentary Association is marching ahead with its own awards process.
The brouhaha over proposed changes to the Academy's rules for qualifying documentaries was a major topic of conversation at the Cinema Eye Honors, which recognize nonfiction film, on Wednesday night.
The director, he continued, had "exploded the rules of documentary film-making in several works for television... and later revolutionised the popular genres of the crime film and the horror film".
I'm not trying to rewrite rules of documentary filmmaking.
But in an important twist on the rules of documentary photography, the pictures are staged.
LOS ANGELES — Once the cat was out of the bag, and it became clear that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was about to announce changes in its rules for the feature documentary Oscar, Michael Moore, a member of the Academy's governing board, called to explain the full extent of the revisions.
Tower recently told the Los Angeles Times that his ground rules for participating in Bourdain's documentary stipulated no Waters bashing, yet at one point he complains pointedly about her taking credit for writing Chez Panisse's menus.
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