Oscar Nominees Special with Clayton Davis

Top Docs: Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers

Joining us for the third year in a row, Variety’s Senior Awards Editor Clayton Davis breaks down this year’s Oscar races for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short and offers his predictions for who will be victorious at the 96th Academy Awards on March 10th. With the feature doc category taking on a very international flavor this year, what does Clayton think of how the process unfolded from the shortlist to the nominations? How might Netflix’s late acquisition of “To Kill a Tiger” affect the outcome? In what is considered a very tight race, what might tip the balance?

With his encyclopedic knowledge of the Oscars (you’ll even catch a reference to “How Green Was My Valley” in the pod) and his finger-on-the-pulse of the overall Awards season, Clayton takes us through each of the nominees and gives you his unique insights into the process.

Also, be sure to catch our “Top Docs” interviews with all of the Oscar-nominated directors in the documentary feature and shorts categories.

Clayton Davis is Variety’s Senior Awards Editor. He is also one of the hosts of the "Variety Awards Circuit Podcast" and the video web series, "The Take." He's been an awards, film and television analyst and critic for more than 15 years and has co-hosted the Oscars Pre-Show on ABC. Clayton is also co-founder and president of the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association and is a board member of the Critics Choice Association.

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Oscar Nominees:

Features:

20 Days in Mariupol

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

Eternal Memory

Four Daughters

To Kill a Tiger

Shorts:

The ABCs of Book Banning

The Barber of Little Rock

The Last Repair Shop

Island In Between

Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma)

Other recent documentaries discussed:

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

American Symphony

Beyond Utopia

Apolonia, Apolonia

Dick Johnson is Dead

Every Body

Little Richard: I am Everything

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