DGA announces doc, TV, commercial noms

January 09, 2009 "Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit. Long Time Coming and was nominated for children's programming in 2003 for A Time for Dancing and James (who won the DGA doc award in 1994 for Hoop Dreams). Of the five films, "Death House" and "Man on Wire" are the only ones under consideration for the best documentary Oscar.

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