The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the movies that qualified for Oscar consideration in the Documentary Feature Film category, and they include docs about Elton John and Celine Dion.
Elton’s film, Elton John: Never Too Late, which debuts Dec. 13 on Disney+, is one of 169 films to qualify, as is Celine’s Amazon Prime documentary, I Am Celine Dion.
Other music docs in the running for consideration include the Netflix doc The Greatest Night in Pop, about the making of “We Are The World”; Luther: Never Too Much, about R&B singer Luther Vandross; and the Indigo Girls doc, Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All.
Should he get nominated and win, it would be the third Oscar for Elton. He previously won two Oscars in the Best Original Song category for The Lion King track “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” in 1994 and the Rocketman song “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” in 2019.
The 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2, live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC. It will be broadcast in over 200 territories worldwide.
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