Oscar's feature doc list down to 15

November 18, 2008 Errol Morris, an Oscar winner in 2004 for his documentary "The Fog of War," has made the cut that could lead to another Academy Award nomination for his latest film, "Standard Operating Procedure," a study of torture in Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Morris' film, from Participant and Sony Pictures Classics, is one of 15 films that have made it through a preliminary round of voting by the Academy's documentary branch steering committee and are now eligible to compete for one of the five nominations in the feature documentary category. The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh remembers the Hungarian poet captured by the Nazis; Scott Hicks' Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts, from Koch Lober Films, centers on composer Philip Glass; Jeremiah Zagar's In a Dream is a study of the director's father, mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar; and James Marsh's Man on Wire, released by Magnolia, celebrates high-wire artist Philippe Petit.

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