IDA Nominations Honor Amy, Kurt, Nina and Marlon
Friday, November 6, 2015 at 12:00AM 
Glenn here. The nominations and specialty category winners were announced today for the 31st International Documentary Association Awards. It's a line-up heavy on artist portraits, Ukraine, and films heavy on the use of archive footage. Last year's IDA list featured three eventual Oscar nominees (Finding Vivian Maier, Salt of the Earth and the winner of both Citizenfour), but other years since 2010 the number has only been two. Except 2011 when the IDA people went way off course (in the best possible way) and awarded Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light with no eventual Oscar nominees in their list (Guzman's The Pearl Button didn't find favor from them this year, though).
I see no reason why this year won't follow that ratio status quo. But firstly let's take a look at the nominees.
BEST FEATURE
- Amy
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
- Listen to Me Marlon
- The Look of Silence
- The Russian Woodpecker
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
I am extremely pleased to see the excellent Russian Woodpecker cited here. If Oscar could pay attention to that superb examination of paranoia amid the Ukrainian revolution then I would be more than ecstatic. And if you have the chance to see it then do yourself a favour. But what about the rest...
