9 out of 10 Oscar doc nominees choose Apple.

Monday, March 08, 2010 at 11:22 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff

Out of the ten nominees in the categories of Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short at the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, nine used Apple’s Final Cut Studio to make their films.

Using programs like Motion and Final Cut Pro, which are included in the Final Cut Studio package, filmmakers are able to produce highly refined rough cuts enabling editors to present a very polished final product.

CNet reports that Kim Roberts, editor of Documentary Feature nominee, Food, Inc said, “I tend to work on a lot of independent documentaries and Final Cut Pro is affordable and a good application. It’s been a natural choice for filmmakers.”

Filmmakers cite the program’s ability to handle an array of tasks, the range of tools included in the studio and its relative inexpensiveness as reasons for choosing Final Cut for their projects.

“Final Cut Pro can do most everything that the million dollar systems can do and it costs you below $15,000 (this includes the cost of a Mac, Final Cut and video cards),” said Food, Inc’s online editor Dan Wilken.

The Oscar nominees in the documentary categories were:

Best Documentary Feature

‘Burma VJ’
‘The Cove’ - Winner
‘Food, Inc.’
‘The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers’
‘Which Way Home’

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

‘China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province’
Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

‘The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner’
Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher

‘The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant’
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

‘Music by Prudence’ - Winner
Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

‘Rabbit a la Berlin’
Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra