Amy Winehouse, Marlon Brando films make Oscar doc shortlist

PanARMENIAN.Net - Amy Winehouse, Marlon Brando, Scientology, campus rape, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Mexican drug cartels and American vigilante groups, and the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s are among the topics explored in the 15 films that have made the shortlist in the Oscar race for Best Documentary Feature, TheWrap reports.

Those topics are represented by the shortlisted films “Amy,” “Listen to Me Marlon,” “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” “The Hunting Ground,” “Best of Enemies,” “Cartel Land” and “The Look of Silence,” all of which advanced to the next round of Oscar voting.

Other films that made the cut include “He Named Me Malala,” “Heart of a Dog,” “Meru,” “3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets,” “We Come as Friends,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?,” “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” and Michael Moore‘s “Where To Invade Next.”

Among the high-profile films left off the list are “Armor of Light,” “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” “Meet the Patels,” “Racing Extinction,” “The Russian Woodpecker,” “(T)error” and “The Wolfpack.”