Annal:2007 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature
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Results of the Academy Award® in the year 2007. For a ranked list of films, try an honor roll:
An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning
- 2007 Oscar-Documentary winner
- Score: 10.57
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore’s personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked-about documentary of the year. An audience and critical favorite, An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don’t act now. Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always fascinating. In the end, An Inconvenient Truth accomplishes what all great films should: it leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired.
Deliver Us from Evil: Innocence and Faith Betrayed
- 2007 Oscar-Documentary nominee
- Score: 6.57
Deliver Us From Evil is the story of Father Oliver O’Grady, the most notorious pedophile in the history of the modern Catholic Church. Completely lacking in moral fiber and devoid of any sense of shame or guilt, O’Grady used his charm and authority to violate dozens of faithful Catholic families across Northern California for more than two decades. His victims ranged from a nine month-old infant to the middle-aged mother of another adolescent victim.
Remarkably, Deliver Us From Evil filmmaker Amy Berg tracked down Father O’Grady and persuaded him to participate in the making of her film. O’Grady’s account of his years in various Northern California parishes is chilling and he tells his story without remorse or self-reflection.
- 2007 Oscar-Documentary nominee
- Score: 6.57
Iraq In Fragments illuminates post‐war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style, with no scripted narration, the film powerfully explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis: people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations, and concerns are at once personal and illustrative of larger issues in Iraq today.
Jesus Camp: America is Being Born Again
- 2007 Oscar-Documentary nominee
- Score: 6.57
Jesus Camp, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, and Tory, to Pastor Becky Fischer's “Kids on Fire” summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in “God’s army.”
The film follows these children at camp as they hone their “prophetic gifts” and are schooled in how to “take back America for Christ.” It is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America’s political future.
- 2007 Oscar-Documentary nominee
- Score: 6.57
Working alone in Iraq over eight months, American filmmaker Laura Poitras follows Iraqi physician Dr. Riyadhfather of six and Sunni political candidate—for an unforgettable journey into the heart of war-ravaged Iraq in the months leading up to the January 2005 elections. An outspoken critic of the occupation, Dr. Riyadh is equally passionate about building democracy in Iraq. Yet all around him, he sees only chaos, as his waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence. Dramatically interwoven into his personal journey is the landscape of U.S. military occupation, Australian private security contractors, and the U.N. officials who orchestrated the elections.
