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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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  • Collective

    1

  • Gunda

    2

  • Slay the Dragon

    3

  • All In: The Fight for Democracy

    4

  • Aswang

    5

  • Mayor

    6

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    7

  • Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

    8

  • The Booksellers

    9

  • The Reason I Jump

    10

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    11

  • Stars and Strife

    12

  • 76 Days

    13

  • Coded Bias

    14

  • Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

    15

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • My Octopus Teacher

    17

  • City Hall

    18

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    19

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    21

  • The Human Factor

    22

  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    23

  • Olympia

    24

  • My Rembrandt

    25

  • Giving Voice

    26

  • The Art of Political Murder

    27

  • Lessons of Love

    28

  • Some Kind of Heaven

    29

  • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

    30

  • Childhood 2.0

    31

  • 40 Years a Prisoner

    32

  • Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

    33

  • Time

    34

  • 9to5: The Story of a Movement

    35

  • Landfall

    36

  • Rising Phoenix

    37

  • Belushi

    38

  • Dear Santa

    39

  • Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

    40

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • Feels Good Man

    42

  • House of Cardin

    43

  • Totally Under Control

    44

  • I Am Greta

    45

  • Mr. SOUL!

    46

  • The Times of Bill Cunningham

    47

  • Boys State

    48

  • Beastie Boys Story

    49

  • The Last Blockbuster

    50

  • Rewind

    51

  • Bedlam

    52

  • Acasă, My Home

    53

  • Transhood

    54

  • MLK/FBI

    55

  • The Truffle Hunters

    56

  • Dick Johnson Is Dead

    57

  • Soros

    58

  • iHuman

    59

  • Apocalypse '45

    60

  • Mighty Ira

    61

  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa

    62

  • Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time

    63

  • Beautiful Something Left Behind

    64

  • Women in Blue

    65

  • Black Boys

    66

  • White Noise

    67

  • American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    68

  • Coup 53

    69

  • Fandango at the Wall

    70

  • Stray

    71

  • CoroNation

    72

  • Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll

    73

  • WBCN and the American Revolution

    74

  • Kiss the Ground

    75

  • For They Know Not What They Do

    76

  • On the Record

    77

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    78

  • Flannery

    79

  • Down a Dark Stairwell

    80

  • Notturno

    81

  • With Drawn Arms

    82

  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers

    83

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    84

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • The Way I See It

    86

  • Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

    87

  • The Fight

    88

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    90

  • Disclosure

    91

  • Be Water

    92

  • Rebuilding Paradise

    93

  • Assassins

    94

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

    95

  • The Forbidden Reel

    96

  • Desert One

    97

  • My Darling Vivian

    98

  • The Pollinators

    99

  • Billie

    100