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Academy members and awards consultants lined up to complain that this year ’s crop of nominees was evidence of a system in desperate need of reform.
The concerns come after a particularly dire year for nonfiction films at the box office.
In large part, that's because the documentaries whose subjects might have drawn the most attention made their real impact on streaming.
They are also, not coincidentally, movies with the biggest and most insistent awards campaigns behind them.
Best Documentary category has made enormous progress in the past decade , says Frida Ghitis .
Ghitis: Oscar voters reject boldfaced names, but the category is now arguably the Oscars ' strongest.
She says Oscar voters simply did what they were supposed to do: watch all 15 movies and pick the ones they thought were best.
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