The New Yorker:

The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday, and two New Yorker films are among the contenders. “Incident,” which uses body-camera and surveillance footage to examine a police shooting in Chicago, is nominated in the Documentary Short Film category, while “I’m Not a Robot,” a darkly humorous Dutch film about a woman taking a series of CAPTCHA tests, is nominated for best Live Action Short.

Seventeen previous New Yorker films have been nominated for Academy Awards; a victory at this year’s ceremony, scheduled for March 2nd in Los Angeles, would be the magazine’s second.

“Incident,” directed by Bill Morrison, who produced the film with Jamie Kalven, chronicles a police killing and its aftermath. On a Chicago sidewalk, an African American man named Harith (Snoop) Augustus is questioned and then pursued by a foot patrol after leaving the barbershop where he works; after a brief scuffle, he is fatally wounded. The thirty-minute film chronicles the grief and outrage of passersby, but focusses much of its attention on how the officers’ account of the shooting evolves as the cameras roll. “My hope is that viewers will take away a more informed view of how police surveillance footage can be used, withheld, and mischaracterized to exonerate officers,” Morrison told The New Yorker. “Police oversight begins with public awareness.”

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