The Four Excellent Environmental Films That Got Oscar Nods

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# January 29, 2011 • 8:00 am PST

As I'm sure you're well aware, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have just released their Oscar nominations. I was a bit startled—happily so—to see that an impressive 40 percent of documentaries nominated for the Academy Awards are somehow environmentally-themed.

I've seen all of the four nominated films—two for feature length and two for short subject—and would recommend each without hesitation. (And I should confess that I haven't been especially gracious in past reviews of environmentally-themed art, music, and film.) What these ones all get right, in my opinion, is that they stand alone as human interest stories. They all acknowledge the fact that the most important environmental issues—pollution, waste, extraction, climate change—are also the most important human issues.

Here are the four films:

snip...click links to see the trailers & read the reviews

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1. I just saw Gasland. I thought I already knew all about it, but things are WAY worse than I even

imagined. An excellent film.