These are the fifteen documentaries that are up for best documentary for the 2007 Oscars. Branch members will now select the five nominees which will announced on January 23, 2007. I’m pulling for Deborah Scranton and “The War Tapes,” if you haven’t heard the conversation I had with her you can listen to it here.

Congrats to everyone on their nomination.

• Patricia Foulkrod’s “The Ground Truth”
• James Longley’s “Iraq in Fragments”
• Laura Poitras’ “My Country, My Country”
• Deborah Scranton’s “The War Tapes”
• Frank Popper’s “Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?”
• Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s “Jesus Camp”
• Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck’s “Shut Up & Sing”
• Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth”
• Amy Berg’s “Deliver Us From Evil”
• Lucy Walker’s, “Blindsight”
• Stanley Nelson’s “Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple”
• Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto’s “Sisters in Law”
• Yael Klopmann’s “Storm of Emotions”
• Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg’s “The Trials of Darryl Hunt”
• Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan’s “An Unreasonable Man”

Related posts:

1. “The Ground Truth” Documentary Screening In Greensboro, Monday 11/27/06
2. [Video] Jesus Camp…Nevermind
3. [Audio] Interview with Deborah Scranton of The War Tapes
4. [Video] March For Peace – Washington DC: January 27, 2007
5. Producers, Editors & Filmmakers: Open Source Documentary
6. Bad Voodoo’s War… Deborah Scranton At It Again
7. Brownie Points
8. 8 Great Arrogant Tips From A Documentary Programmer