Oscar Oddity #8: The Documentary Streak

Last year's doc winners for Undefeated.

The 85th Oscar nominations have yielded another odd stat.

For the third consecutive year, the Documentary Feature category consists entirely of films with multiple directors/producers. In other words, it's the third straight year that no documentary is represented by one nominee. Each film has two or three credited nominees. This is the longest streak of this kind, as the category usually has at least one film directed/produced by one person. It's an unnoticed streak, but I thought it was interesting.

Here are the nominees responsible for this streak:

5 Broken Cameras
(Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi)

The Gatekeepers
(Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon)

How to Survive a Plague
(David France and Howard Gertler)

The Invisible War
(Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering)

Searching for Sugar Man
(Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn)

It's also worth mentioning that this will be the sixth consecutive year that multiple nominees will win for Best Documentary Feature Film. The last solo winner was Davis Guggenheim for An Inconvenient Truth (2006).

Note: Individual nominees weren't credited from 1942-45, and the award wasn't given in 1946.