Oscar Winner 2010: Best Documentary – The Cove
Mar 07, 2010 - By Anet Hovhanesian
The winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary goes to The Cove. Actor now producer Fisher Stevens did most of the talking thanking everyone involved including the director. Unfortunately we didn’t get to hear from the other two winners because the music began to play them off, which might have had something to do with them holding up a giant sign with a text number on it.
See who they beat out this year in the Best Documentary category…
The Nominees for Best Documentary were:
- Burma VJ– Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
- The Cove – Fisher Stevens
- Food, Inc.– Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers – Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
- Which Way Home- Rebecca Cammisa
Burma VJ: This crime documentary, uses smudge footage to tell the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks. More than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more than 40 years. Foreign news crews were banned, the Internet was shut down, and Burma was closed to the outside world. These monks used pocket-sized video cameras to make sure the world knew what was going on.
The Cove: The Cove is a documentary by Louie Psihoyos that tells the story of an elite team of activists, filmmakers and free-divers who go on a mission to a specific cove in Taiji, Japan, where approximately 23,000 dolphins are killed every year. Former dolphin trainer Ric O’ Barry, the man who captured and trained the first five dolphins who played Flipper in the international television sensation is also part of this documentary. The Cove created to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
Food, Inc.: Food, Inc. is a documentary about the state of the food industry within the United States. Food, Inc. discusses how the problems we have with our food in America (E. Coli and Salmonella) have developed, how our society’s food has evolved over the years, why our food is cheaper, where it is coming from, and the unsafe conditions from which it comes from.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers: The Most Dangerous Man in Americais the story of how Daniel Ellsberg shook America when he smuggled a top-secret Pentagon study to the New York Times that showed how five Presidents consistently lied to the American people about the Vietnam War that was killing millions and tearing America apart. This documentary by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, tells the inside story, for the first time on film, of this pivotal event that changed history and transformed our nation’s political discourse.
Which Way Home: Director Rebecca Cammisa’s film, Which Way Home, is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. This documentary tells the story of those children you never hear about. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow.
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Monday, March 8, 2010 8:43AM
CONGRATULATIONS to Ric O'barry, and all who worked hard on this history changing movie. I have complete, total and utter respect for all involved and tonight I will be charging my glass to you and celebrating the awareness this movie will generate and I will long for the day the waters of Taiji turn blue once more…… justice for the beautiful and highly intelligent dolphin!
Monday, March 8, 2010 11:25AM
exceptional
Monday, March 8, 2010 12:48PM
Yessss!! Wonderful!!!
A great day!
Monday, March 8, 2010 3:43PM
"And like Pharoes tribe,
They'll be drownded in the tide,
and like Goliath they'll be conquered"…. Bob Dylan
Amen. Power to Sea Shepherd.
Monday, March 8, 2010 3:47PM
I can't think of a more deserving film! The slaughter of the dolphins, Japan's dirty little secret must end today. The Cove is just the beginning.
Monday, March 8, 2010 5:11PM
Congratulations to all who worked on this documentary. A well deserved OSCAR. A special congratulations to my son, Russ Wiltse, for his amazing contribution editing of this film.
Monday, March 8, 2010 5:26PM
CONGRATULATION!!! excelent job.
Monday, March 8, 2010 6:09PM
As most years, I watched the Oscars distractedly, not really caring for the rich and the mighty, the entertainments of millions. The real issues, the real problems are rooted in the soul, in the heart that is not caring enough. Injustices and abuses towards all living beings continue through apathy. And then: The Cove won best documentary!!!! A dirty secret is exposed to the world! They risked their lives to make this documentary, and I could not be happier that they are acclaimed for it! There is maybe hope, after all!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:10AM
Please leave your comments at Japan Today. The cold hearted fools are getting me mad over there. PeggyDay left 3 comments. Please add your voice.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:48AM
Food Inc. was more relevant to our detached behavior towards food and how it has gone into the greedy hands of big corporate/governmental lobbyists controlling our food supply.
The Cove is an important, but how would we like it if Japanese film makers/protestors were to come to the U.S. and film our horrible treatment of animals in slaughter houses? Does it make it right to kill innocent dolphins? NO! But, the Cove is just a glimpse into how pathetic and hypocritical humans have become towards nature.
Documentaries are kicking some serious butt these days! More should be awarded and given recognition instead of washed up actors who are put on pedestals of "god like seniority" by media conglomerates!
Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:47AM
Congratulations! What a brave undertaking and amazing job shedding light on one of the great atrocities that the Japanese commit in the world's oceans.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:58PM
Good to see that the Cove won this year. Great documentary that brought awareness to a barbaric and unnecessary slaughter of dolphins. I never heard if they actually stopped the slaughter entirely, but I hope it has had the desired effect.