Lazarescu” and “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” (both, like “Collective,” critiques of the health care system) had been snubbed in the recent past. “Collective” also made history as the first film from Romania to be nominated in the international category. Every one of the films is really sophisticated, creative storytelling and so right for the moment.” And if you look at the documentary nominees, you’ll see that we really do live in the most creative time in documentary films. “Once you get nominated, the whole world pays a bit more attention. “Nothing highlights a film better than the Academy Awards,” he said. Nanau told TheWrap that the Oscar attention lends validation to a difficult subject.Īlso Read: How Oscar Nominees for Best Documentary Earned the Trust of Activists, Journalists and an Octopus (Video) And he also weaves victims of the fire into the film, both in the form of a family who lost their son to a bacterial infection and Tedy Ursuleanu (seen the in the photo at the top), a survivor of the fire who takes part in a photographic exhibition that shines a poignant light on her injuries. Nanau keeps his camera’s eye close on the journalists, along with government officials, including a new minister of health. Using a clear and economical narrative style, the paints a damning picture of fraud and abuse. The fire killed 27 people, but 37 more died in the months following the tragedy, due to shocking negligence. “The fact that this film is about a difficult subject and can be difficult to watch, that makes it the outcome of two nominations even more of a pleasant surprise.”Īlso Read: Oscar Nominees for International Feature Say Their Films Create a Better Global Community (Video)įrom Romania, “ Collective” is an artful, non-fiction detective story, following a small team of journalists uncovering massive corruption in the aftermath of a deadly 2015 nightclub fire. “We’re very happy,” Nanau said to TheWrap. This year the doubleheader occurred again with Alexander Nanau’s “Collective,” an accomplishment that was even more notable considering the record-shattering number of titles submitted in both categories. Films like Italy’s “Fire at Sea,” France’s “Faces Places,” and Brazil’s “The Edge of Democracy” have told stories not with an outsider’s eye, but from within the counties and cultures in which they take place.īut no film had ever been nominated for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film) until North Macedonia’s “Honeyland” turned that trick last year. ![]() Since 2015, there have been at least one, and often two, non-English-language titles among the nominees. The Oscar category of Best Documentary was once a reliable safe haven for homegrown American films, but in recent years it has gone international. A version of this story about “Collective” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
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