Overview
- The Academy nominated The Perfect Neighbor for Best Documentary Feature and The Devil Is Busy for Best Documentary Short.
- The Perfect Neighbor, a Netflix release, examines the 2023 Ocala, Florida killing of Ajike Owens by neighbor Susan Lorincz using police body- and dash-cam footage.
- The Devil Is Busy, co-directed with Christalyn Hampton, follows Tracii, a clinic security chief in Atlanta working under tighter abortion laws, and is an HBO short.
- These nominations are the first Oscars of Gandbhir’s nearly two-decade career, which includes multiple Emmy and Peabody Awards.
- The feature joins a field that includes The Alabama Solution, Come See Me in the Good Light, Cutting Through Rocks, and Mr. Nobody Against Putin, with winners to be announced March 15 at the Dolby Theatre.