this is such a truthful documentary about one of the greatest comedy legends that ever lived and shows that harsh reality of show business and being a female comedian and how hard it still is, even when you been in the business for a certain amount of time. this really should've gotten an Oscar nomination for best documentary.
shareCompletely agree. The Academy's reasoning: "The nominating committee didn't think the film had enough social significance."
That makes sense. Somebody that has been in entertainment for 40+ years including being "tabbed" by Carson, breaking female comedy barriers and working the red carpet better than anyone in history doesn't have social significance? Must have been the same idiots that left Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine) and Christopher Nolan (Inception) off the ballots too.
The Academy has its head up its asses.
I'm a huge documentary fan and I think some of their choices are horrible. Inside Job won this year because it's timely. There is an economic crisis so a doc. about it should win. I thought The Cove was quite good (the previous year's winner). What doesn't work is when they go timely, An Inconvenient Truth? There had been dozens of documentaries about the environment but none as commercial as that one. Of course it was chosen.
Docs about the holocaust used to be sure-winners as well. I guess the Academy has realized that there were other genocides and tragedies because that trend has pretty much faded.
Exit Through The Gift Shop was the year's best documentary. It didn't win because it wasn't current enough. It didn't have its thumb on some hot topic that the Academy loves.
Joan should have been nominated but because she isn't a sacred cow of the American "left" she wasn't. The Academy probably also didn't like that she was so unpredictable on the red carpet in past Oscar years.
Agreed
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