The Cove is a 2009 documentary directed by Louis Psihoyos, following former dolphin trainer Richard O'Barry and a team of activists and filmmakers as they use hidden cameras and underwater equipment to document the annual dolphin drive hunt in Taiji, Japan. The film combines the covert-filming footage with interviews on the dolphin captivity industry and international whaling and dolphin-hunting politics. The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and is widely regarded as a landmark of investigative, activist-driven documentary filmmaking.
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Which films were nominated alongside The Cove for the Oscar for best documentary feature?
It beat Burma VJ, Food, Inc., The Most Dangerous Man in America and Which Way Home.
The Cove won the documentary feature award at the Academy Awards ceremony the Academy lists under 2010. The other nominees were Burma VJ, Food, Inc., The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and Which Way Home.
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The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Louie Psihoyos that analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan.
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The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Louie Psihoyos that analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan.
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The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Louie Psihoyos that analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan.
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Wikidata P166: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
Wikidata P166: Genesis Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): Genesis Award.
Wikidata P166: Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Documentary
Wikidata P166 (award received): Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Documentary.
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