If your only criteria is it's not fiction then Project Veritas / OMG and vlogs are documentaries - but they're not, they're investigative reporting or candid camera.
This is what Walsh did, a collection of Project Veritas videos arranged in a narrative.
You can pretend that's a documentary, but when your definition includes Jersey Shore you've made it so encompassing it's worthless.
It shouldn't be awarded in even a neutral Oscars.
It's a relevant and important movie, eye-opening for some, but it's not good and certainly not great.
The entire problem with the Oscars is they would give an oscar to a "He is racist" movie about how Matt Walsh is racist.
Ok, what 5 documentaries released in this eligibility year did you think were better?
Any 5 of them? It's not even a documentary, it's a narrative journey.
Departure on adventure, trials, climax, return.
Documentaries don't have these things.
Name any 5 documentaries you feel were better than AIR.
That's what a documentary is. They tell a story, it's just not a fictional one. And this is an undercover look into DEI.
If your only criteria is it's not fiction then Project Veritas / OMG and vlogs are documentaries - but they're not, they're investigative reporting or candid camera.
This is what Walsh did, a collection of Project Veritas videos arranged in a narrative.
You can pretend that's a documentary, but when your definition includes Jersey Shore you've made it so encompassing it's worthless.