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The Oscar Documentary Feature Submissions of Film Year 2020 I've Seen, Ranked [Shortlist Completed]

An amazing record of 238 feature-length documentaries made it to the 2020 Oscar long-list. [See here: bit.ly/3atLXNx.]

This is my ongoing personal record, and ranking, of those I've seen.

As of the last update, I have seen all fifteen shortlisted titles.

My Other Documentary Features Lists: [ 2024 ] [ 2023 ] [ 2022 ] [ 2021 ] [ 2020 ]

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  • Miss Americana

    144

  • The Social Dilemma

    123

  • My Octopus Teacher

    17

  • Dick Johnson Is Dead

    57

  • Feels Good Man

    42

  • Boys State

    48

  • Time

    34

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    19

  • Disclosure

    91

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • Collective

    1

  • Beastie Boys Story

    49

  • Some Kind of Heaven

    29

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    90

  • Athlete A

    119

  • The Last Blockbuster

    50

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • The Painter and the Thief

    146

  • Gunda

    2

  • The Truffle Hunters

    56

  • Zappa

    115

  • Circus of Books

    124

  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    140

  • Becoming

    120

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    21

  • Spaceship Earth

    143

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    84

  • The Booksellers

    9

  • City Hall

    18

  • This Is Paris

    122

  • Totally Under Control

    44

  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

    118

  • MLK/FBI

    55

  • I Am Greta

    45

  • Mayor

    6

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    11

  • Notturno

    81

  • Belushi

    38

  • The Reason I Jump

    10

  • Coded Bias

    14

  • Be Water

    92

  • Rewind

    51

  • Stray

    71

  • Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

    33

  • Aswang

    5

  • Assassins

    94

  • 76 Days

    13

  • The Donut King

    117

  • Kiss the Ground

    75

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    78

  • The Go-Go's

    106

  • Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

    15

  • My Psychedelic Love Story

    131

  • The Phenomenon

    110

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    7

  • Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

    134

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • Rising Phoenix

    37

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • On the Record

    77

  • All In: The Fight for Democracy

    4

  • The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

    167

  • The Way I See It

    86

  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers

    83

  • Lance

    188

  • Acasă, My Home

    53

  • Coup 53

    69

  • Planet of the Humans

    114

  • Dads

    104

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

    87

  • Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

    40

  • Billie

    100

  • Transhood

    54

  • Human Nature

    116

  • The Fight

    88

  • Narcissus Off Duty

    203

  • Mr. SOUL!

    46

  • 17 Blocks

    126

  • Rebuilding Paradise

    93

  • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

    30

  • Uncle Tom

    148

  • He Dreams of Giants

    177

  • 9to5: The Story of a Movement

    35

  • #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

    112

  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    23

  • All I Can Say

    153

  • The American Sector

    129

  • My Darling Vivian

    98

  • Epicentro

    170

  • This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth

    225

  • The Infiltrators

    145

  • Giving Voice

    26

  • House of Cardin

    43

  • Through the Night

    226

  • Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    95

  • A Kid from Coney Island

    186

  • Pahokee

    207

  • Slay the Dragon

    3

  • Elementa

    168