The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards®. One hundred twenty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

   “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” Never Sorry LLC
   “Bully,” The Bully Project LLC
   “Chasing Ice,” Exposure
   “Detropia,” Loki Films
   “Ethel,” Moxie Firecracker Films
   “5 Broken Cameras,” Guy DVD Films
   “The Gatekeepers,” Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil
   “The House I Live In,” Charlotte Street Films, LLC
   “How to Survive a Plague,” How to Survive a Plague LLC
   “The Imposter,” Imposter Pictures Ltd. 
   “The Invisible War,” Chain Camera Pictures
   “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” Jigsaw Productions in association with 
       Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
   “Searching for Sugar Man,” Red Box Films
   “This Is Not a Film,” Wide Management
   “The Waiting Room,” Open’hood, Inc.

The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. 

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network.