We’re looking at each individual category for the Oscars and what our thoughts are going into the final stretch. We’ll adjust our thoughts based on the precursor associated with this category, Documentary Short. Below are our predictions in Best Documentary Short.

Best Documentary Short

Winner Predictions

• Death by Numbers (WL O) (PP P) [New]
• I Am Ready, Warden (TL O)
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Runner-Up Predictions

• I Am Ready, Warden (WL O)
• Incident (TL O)
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra (PP O)

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Wesley Lovell: Another batch of contenders I haven’t seen and have no clue what will be thought of each. As such, these are just my guesses at the moment.
Pete Patrick: Just guesswork not having seen any of these, but the mass shooting follow-up meeting between one of the shooters and her assailant in Death by Numbers seems quite relevant to the times with The Girl in the Orchestra looks like something light that everyone would like.
Thomas La Tourrette: I have not seen any of these yet but will go with my feelings and what I can find of other people writing about them. I Am Ready, Warden sounds like the type of film that often wins, even though it is not the best reviewed of the bunch. Incident which reconstructs a police shooting sounds the most interesting because of how it was done. The Only Girl in the Orchestra is the feel good movie of the bunch, so do not rule it out.

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