2007 Oscar Nominations Include Films and their Actors from the Sundance Film Festival

A number of films that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival were included in the list of Oscar nominations announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“It is refreshing that the Academy is recognizing both the quality of the storytelling and the talent of the actors in independent films that originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival,” said Geoffrey Gilmore, Director of the Sundance Film Festival. “We are also pleased that three of the five documentary films – An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments and My Country My Country – premiered at the Festival and/or were supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund.”

The Sundance Institute connections are:

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE – Best Picture
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE – Abigail Breslin, Best Supporting Actress
HALF NELSON – Ryan Gosling, Best Actor
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE – Michael Arndt, Best Original Screenplay
THE ILLUSIONIST – Cinematography
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH – Original Song by Melissa Ethridge
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH – Documentary Feature
IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS – Documentary Feature (also supported by Sundance Documentary Fund)
WEST BANK STORY – Short Film – Live Action

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
Nominated Films Funded by the Sundance Documentary Fund:
IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS (also in 2006 Sundance Film Festival) – Documentary Feature
MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY – Documentary Feature.