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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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  • Elementa

    168

  • The Curve

    162

  • First Vote

    174

  • Descent

    165

  • A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland

    208

  • The American Sector

    129

  • Irmi

    183

  • The Times of Bill Cunningham

    47

  • Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton

    210

  • Stray

    71

  • Lessons of Love

    28

  • Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

    33

  • The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

    167

  • Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible

    171

  • Napoli Eden

    202

  • Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    95

  • Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles

    205

  • Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack

    212

  • Through the Night

    226

  • Indian Space Dreams

    181

  • Reunited

    213

  • Dope Is Death

    121

  • Days of Cannibalism

    163

  • My Darling Supermarket

    200

  • Bulletproof

    157

  • The Power of Movement

    209

  • Red Penguins

    109

  • A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem

    133

  • Self Portrait

    219

  • They Call Me Babu

    224

  • Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

    8

  • Time

    34

  • Lost in Face

    195

  • The Reason I Jump

    10

  • Dear Santa

    39

  • Belly of the Beast

    101

  • La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla

    187

  • River Tales

    216

  • Some Kind of Heaven

    29

  • With Drawn Arms

    82

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    90

  • #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

    112

  • He Dreams of Giants

    177

  • The Truffle Hunters

    56

  • We Don't Deserve Dogs

    127

  • F11 and Be There

    173

  • The Letter

    190

  • Narcissus Off Duty

    203

  • Aswang

    5

  • My Octopus Teacher

    17

  • Bedlam

    52

  • Soros

    58

  • Kiss the Ground

    75

  • Miss Americana

    144

  • America's Forgotten

    147

  • The Art of Living in Danger

    154

  • The Big Scary “S” Word

    155

  • In My Skin

    180

  • Coded Bias

    14

  • The Last Blockbuster

    50

  • Rewind

    51

  • Acasă, My Home

    53

  • Women in Blue

    65

  • Our Time Machine

    206

  • The Right Girls

    214

  • Sky Blossom

    220

  • Beautiful Something Left Behind

    64

  • Down a Dark Stairwell

    80

  • Dads

    104

  • Libelu: Down With The Dictatorship

    191

  • Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time

    63

  • Rebuilding Paradise

    93

  • Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

    108

  • The Walrus and the Whistleblower

    111

  • Find Your Groove

    141

  • 9/11 Kids

    150

  • Irradiated

    184

  • Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl

    185

  • Runner

    217

  • The Art of Political Murder

    27

  • Childhood 2.0

    31

  • 9to5: The Story of a Movement

    35

  • Dick Johnson Is Dead

    57

  • My Darling Vivian

    98

  • Becoming

    120

  • Escape from Extinction

    138

  • A Kid from Coney Island

    186

  • Mayor

    6

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    11

  • Giving Voice

    26

  • Mr. SOUL!

    46

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

    102

  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    140

  • The Plot Against the President

    149

  • Downstream to Kinshasa

    166

  • Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

    176

  • I Am Not Alone

    178

  • I Owe You a Letter About Brazil

    179

  • Influence

    182