Oscar Watch: Documentary

December 03, 2008 Werner Herzog has just had his Antarctica-set documentary "Encounters at the End of the World" (ThinkFilm/Discovery Films) named to the Academy's documentary feature category shortlist -- the list from which the five Oscar nominees will be selected in January. [...] the legendary German director still isn't sure why a reporter is calling him. He's been virtually ignored by the Academy throughout his long career, but this year, his South Pole odyssey -- a personal film with an environmental conscience -- may be the only picture on the 2008 Oscar docs shortlist to land firmly on both sides of the Academy's perennial documentary divide.

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