Oscars: Amid a Breakout Year for Docs, Is a Best Picture Nomination in the Cards?

hollywoodreporter.com:

Come awards season, documentarians usually find themselves outside the rope line, on the periphery of the red carpet and tucked away in a neat little box marked "below the line." This is, after all, a moment for designer dresses and million-dollar smiles, with only a token acknowledgment for foreign-language and nonfiction features.

Not this year. Beyond the Oscar shortlist and the BAFTA longlist for best documentary, where one would expect to find them, nonfiction films have broken out into a variety of additional categories.

With the Academy Awards, this year's best original song shortlist — which occasionally features the closing theme from the odd documentary — boasts songs from four nonfiction features: John Legend's "Never Break" from.