Just watching the trailer got me verklempt, so I'm guessing the rest of it packs a punch.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- No End in Sight
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
- Sicko
- Taxi to the Dark Side
- War/Dance
Will Win: Sicko
Should Win: No End in Sight
For the past few years, the highest profile (read: highest-grossing) doc has won this award, with Born Into Brothels' upset over Super Size Me as a notable exception. I see no reason for that trend to change here, with Sicko's $24.5 million gross dwarfing the next-highest grosser, No End in Sight, which only raked in $1.4 million.
In addition, the fact that every other doc in the category is about war (3 on Iraq, 1 on Uganda - though that one's more about music than war), will help Sicko stand out. That and the fact that it's helmed by the most financially successful and arguably well-known documentarian in the world.
Sicko's a great doc. Don't get me wrong. But No End in Sight is better. It's more powerful, even-handed and insightful. I haven't seen the other three, but they'll have to work pretty damn hard to beat my third favorite film of 2007. (Of those three, my guess is that Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room helmer Alex Gibney's Taxi could do the trick.) And of the other four, it does come closest to being a spoiler, with eight critics circle wins to Sicko's nine (though in Sicko's case that includes a Critic's Choice win).
By the way, where is The King of Kong, The Trials of Daryl Hunt, The Devil Came on Horseback or In the Shadow of the Moon? Just saying.
SOUND EDITING
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- No Country for Old Men
- Ratatouille
- There Will Be Blood
- Transformers
Article comments
1 - handyguy
Taxi to the Dark Side is a very powerful movie, much more so than No End in Sight [and certainly more than Slicko]. It did win the Writers Guild award, so possibly it has a chance.
2 - David Dylan Thomas
Excellent point about the WGA. I'd say that puts Dark Side in play, but Sicko still has a considerable advantage.