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The Oscar Documentary Feature Submissions of Film Year 2020 I've Seen, Ranked [Shortlist Completed]

An amazing record of 238 feature-length documentaries made it to the 2020 Oscar long-list. [See here: bit.ly/3atLXNx.]

This is my ongoing personal record, and ranking, of those I've seen.

As of the last update, I have seen all fifteen shortlisted titles.

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

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  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    90

  • Disclosure

    91

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    19

  • Miss Americana

    144

  • Collective

    1

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    21

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    11

  • Mayor

    6

  • Boys State

    48

  • City Hall

    18

  • Dick Johnson Is Dead

    57

  • Some Kind of Heaven

    29

  • Feels Good Man

    42

  • Beastie Boys Story

    49

  • Rising Phoenix

    37

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

    87

  • Rewind

    51

  • The Painter and the Thief

    146

  • The Truffle Hunters

    56

  • Aswang

    5

  • Athlete A

    119

  • My Octopus Teacher

    17

  • Lost Course

    194

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • Human Nature

    116

  • 17 Blocks

    126

  • Zappa

    115

  • Coup 53

    69

  • Time

    34

  • The Way I See It

    86

  • On the Record

    77

  • Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

    33

  • This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth

    225

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • Acasă, My Home

    53

  • Gunda

    2

  • Mr. SOUL!

    46

  • The Reason I Jump

    10

  • Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

    134

  • 76 Days

    13

  • Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

    15

  • The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

    167

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    23

  • Totally Under Control

    44

  • All In: The Fight for Democracy

    4

  • All I Can Say

    153

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • They Call Me Babu

    224

  • Dope Is Death

    121

  • I Owe You a Letter About Brazil

    179

  • System K

    223

  • Assassins

    94

  • Becoming

    120

  • (In)Visible Portraits

    125

  • The Fight

    88

  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    140

  • Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

    176

  • Father Soldier Son

    103

  • Through the Night

    226

  • Belly of the Beast

    101

  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

    118

  • Public Trust

    211

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    84

  • Pahokee

    207

  • Self Portrait

    219

  • Nasrin

    204

  • Giving Voice

    26

  • Softie

    221

  • Born to Be

    156

  • Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible

    171

  • Lance

    188

  • Stray

    71

  • We Are the Radical Monarchs

    229

  • Our Time Machine

    206

  • Slay the Dragon

    3

  • Beautiful Something Left Behind

    64

  • The Art of Political Murder

    27

  • 40 Years a Prisoner

    32

  • The Go-Go's

    106

  • In My Skin

    180

  • Bedlam

    52

  • Landfall

    36

  • The American Sector

    129

  • The Forbidden Reel

    96

  • Epicentro

    170

  • Kingdom of Silence

    142

  • Songs of Repression

    222

  • Mighty Ira

    61

  • Belushi

    38

  • Black Boys

    66

  • Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

    113

  • Be Water

    92

  • Down a Dark Stairwell

    80

  • Finding Yingying

    137

  • MLK/FBI

    55

  • F11 and Be There

    173

  • Wim Wenders, Desperado

    233

  • City Dream

    159