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The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films.
Winners
Following the Academy's practice, films are listed by the "award year", which is also the year in which the film was released under the Academy's rules for eligibility. Due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete.
For 1942 there was one Documentary category and four winners
1968 - Journey Into Self Note: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.
The AcademyAward for DocumentaryFeature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentaryfilms.
Following the Academy's practice, films are listed by the "award year", which is also the year in which the film was released under the Academy's rules for eligibility.
Self Note: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the DocumentaryFeature Oscar.
was a documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro and released in 1978.
The subject of the documentary was a group of cocky teenaged juvenile delinquents and the attempts to make them end their criminal ways by introducing them to actual convicts.
The documentary was shown on television in the late '70s.
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