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The Oscar Documentary Feature Submissions of Film Year 2024 I’ve Seen, Ranked

This is my ongoing personal record, and ranking, of the 2024 documentary feature submissions to the Oscars I've seen so far.

The Academy released the official eligibility list on November 21. Link to the official list here.

The shortlist of fifteen titles was released on 17 December 2024. Link to that list here.

As of the last update I have seen 14/15 of the shortlisted titles. I have yet to see: Eno.

My Other Documentary Features Lists: [ 2024 ] [ 2023 ] [ 2022 ] [ 2021 ] [ 2020 ]

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  • Will & Harper

    1

  • Hollywoodgate

    2

  • Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

    3

  • Queendom

    4

  • No Other Land

    5

  • The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

    6

  • Frida

    7

  • The Greatest Night in Pop

    8

  • Piece By Piece

    9

  • Merchant Ivory

    10

  • Music by John Williams

    11

  • Uncropped

    12

  • Jim Henson Idea Man

    13

  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    14

  • Yintah

    15

  • Daughters

    16

  • Union

    17

  • Sugarcane

    18

  • Porcelain War

    19

  • Martha

    20

  • Kiss the Future

    21

  • Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

    22

  • American Cats: The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly

    23

  • Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery

    24

  • Federer: Twelve Final Days

    25

  • Girls State

    26

  • Look Into My Eyes

    27

  • William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill

    28

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    29

  • Elton John: Never Too Late

    30

  • The Bibi Files

    31

  • Black Box Diaries

    32

  • From Ground Zero

    33

  • 2073

    34

  • Dahomey

    35

  • 64 Days

    36

  • 1489

    37

  • 500 Days in the Wild

    38

  • Adrianne & The Castle

    39

  • After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home

    40

  • Agent of Happiness

    41

  • Americans with No Address

    42

  • America's Burning

    43

  • Am I Racist?

    44

  • And So It Begins

    45

  • At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking

    46

  • Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

    47

  • Bad Faith

    48

  • Bad River

    49

  • Behind the Mist

    50

  • Black Girls

    51

  • Blind Spot

    52

  • Blink

    53

  • Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion

    54

  • The Body Politic

    55

  • Bread & Roses

    56

  • Brief Tender Light

    57

  • Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

    58

  • Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid

    59

  • ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!

    60

  • Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

    61

  • Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins

    62

  • The Commandant's Shadow

    63

  • Copa 71

    64

  • The Cowboy and the Queen

    65

  • Death Without Mercy

    66

  • Eno

    67

  • Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    68

  • Escape from Extinction: Rewilding

    69

  • Every Little Thing

    70

  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine

    71

  • Farming the Revolution

    72

  • Favoriten

    73

  • Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain's Journey

    74

  • The Flats

    75

  • Flipside

    76

  • Following Harry

    77

  • Food and Country

    78

  • Food, Inc. 2

    79

  • Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing

    80

  • Frank Miller: American Genius

    81

  • Gaucho Gaucho

    82

  • God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism

    83

  • Gonzo for Democracy

    84

  • The Grab

    85

  • Happy Campers

    86

  • Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

    87

  • Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

    88

  • Homegrown

    89

  • How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

    90

  • Hummingbirds

    91

  • I Am: Celine Dion

    92

  • I Can't Breathe

    93

  • In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema

    94

  • Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All

    95

  • Intercepted

    96

  • Invisible Nation

    97

  • It Happened on Our Ground

    98

  • Jewel of the Desert

    99

  •  or Die

    100