The Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has disclosed a shortlist of 15 films, from which five will be selected and announced January 23.

I did the typing and I had the basic premise, but we were really in conjunction working together. I would write 10 or 15 pages and I would present them to Day-Lewis, and he would make some ideas. Because I speak more American than English, it was very helpful to have his words shape the screenplay as it went along–Paul Thomas Anderson

The Post was made on sets in which two people came in a room and said very adult things one to each other, for three, four, five pages. And to be able to do that with the artist who is the greatest actor, La Streep, I can’t say it was a dream come true because I was terrified at the prospect of doing it. But when it was done, I felt as though I had been elevated by somebody who is incredibly gracious and sharing. She was just like a member of the ensemble, she was just like every other actor who has ever been in a movie but we all know she is unlike anybody who has ever been in a movie–Tom Hanks about Meryl Streep

Growing up in England, I did not know a whole lot regarding Native Americans.  A very rudimentary understanding of it, and so making the film was a fascinating journey–Christian Bale