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First Edition is a 1977 American short documentary film about the Baltimore Sun directed by Helen Whitney. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Debonair Dancers is a 1986 short Canadian documentary film produced by Alison Nigh-Strelich. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein is a 1992 Canadian short animated documentary film directed by Joyce Borenstein.
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square is a 1998 short animated documentary directed by Shui-Bo Wang and distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. It is an autobiography about the director's life, career and ultimate disillusionment with the Chinese Communist Party. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, but lost to The Personals.
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks is a 2002 American short documentary film directed by Robert Houston and produced by Robert Hudson about the 1955/56 Montgomery bus boycott led by Rosa Parks.
Kriv Stenders is an Australian writer, film producer, and director, best known for his 2011 film Red Dog (2011) and the 2014 thriller film Kill Me Three Times. His new film The Correspondent, based on a memoir by Australian journalist Peter Greste, has its world premiere on the opening gala night of the Adelaide Film Festival on 23 October 2024.
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- ↑ "The 66th Academy Awards (1994) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
- ↑ "NY Times: Chicks in White Satin". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2012. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
- ↑ Not the Typical Wedding Video: Two Women Exchange Vows : 'Chicks in White Satin' could receive an Oscar for best short documentary at Monday's Academy Awards.-LA Times
- ↑ A Glance at Some Other Nominees-NY Times
- ↑ Calendar's Big Oscars Issue: 'CHICKS IN WHITE SATIN': Ultimate Wedding Present: A Statuette-LA Times
- ↑ Documentary Short Subject and Feature Winners in 1994-Oscars on YouTube