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Oscars 2011: Inside Job banks best documentary award
Charles Ferguson's documentary about the origins of the financial crash comes out on top in Oscar race
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Inside Job, a searing assault on the banking industry and its role in the financial meltdown of 2008, has won the ultimate accolade from the film world: the Oscar for best documentary.
Director Charles Ferguson, who became a film-maker after making millions of dollars developing internet software, had lost out at the Oscars before, when his 2007 film about the Iraq war, No End in Sight, was nominated, but this time he had a happy ending.
Inside Job, which premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2010, traces the connections between government and financial institutions, as well as theoretically independent academics, showing how they combined to trigger excessive profit-taking and endanger the wider economy.
With this victory, Inside Job has outperformed an equally devastating attack on American politics, Michael Moore»
- Andrew Pulver
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"Three years after a horrific financial crisis, not a single financial executive has gone to jail and that is wrong," says Charles Ferguson as he accepts the Oscar for Inside Job. The front-runner won over upstart Exit Through the Gift Shop, depriving Oscar watchers of seeing who would accept the award for Banksy. This is a case of gravitas winning out over a more whimsical film about art. Gift Shop likely benefited from the Brit street artist's graffiti postings in the weeks before the Oscars, which were well-covered by the media, but probably was hurt by Banksy's interview proxy, the wacky subject of his movie, Mr. Brainwash. If anything the movie that was moving up on the outside was Lucy Walker's Waste Land, another movie »
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