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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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There are 70 films in this list available on Amazon Video US.

  • Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

    3

  • Queendom

    4

  • Piece By Piece

    9

  • Merchant Ivory

    10

  • Uncropped

    12

  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    14

  • Union

    17

  • Sugarcane

    18

  • Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

    22

  • Look Into My Eyes

    27

  • William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill

    28

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    29

  • Black Box Diaries

    32

  • From Ground Zero

    33

  • 2073

    34

  • Dahomey

    35

  • Agent of Happiness

    41

  • Americans with No Address

    42

  • America's Burning

    43

  • Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

    47

  • Bad Faith

    48

  • Bad River

    49

  • Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion

    54

  • The Body Politic

    55

  • Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

    58

  • Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid

    59

  • Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

    61

  • Copa 71

    64

  • The Cowboy and the Queen

    65

  • Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    68

  • Escape from Extinction: Rewilding

    69

  • Every Little Thing

    70

  • Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain's Journey

    74

  • Flipside

    76

  • Food and Country

    78

  • Food, Inc. 2

    79

  • Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing

    80

  • God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism

    83

  • The Grab

    85

  • Happy Campers

    86

  • Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

    87

  • Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

    88

  • How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

    90

  • In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema

    94

  • Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All

    95

  • Intercepted

    96

  • King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones

    102

  • Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

    110

  • Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln

    113

  • Majority Rules

    115

  • Never Look Away

    123

  • Nocturnes

    126

  • October 8

    129

  • One with the Whale

    133

  • ing Gene Wilder

    139

  • Resynator

    141

  • Seeking Mavis Beacon

    144

  • Separated

    145

  • The Sixth

    148

  • Sorry/Not Sorry

    150

  • State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China

    151

  • Stolen Time

    152

  • Studio One Forever

    154

  • Taking Venice

    156

  • The Taste of Mango

    157

  • Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World

    160

  • Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen

    161

  • War Game

    162

  • Who's Afraid of Nathan Law?

    166

  • The World According to Allee Willis

    167