Two of the high-profile films that will be in the running for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature later this year will come to the Oscar race with an unusual pedigree: Emmy nominations.
Alex Gibney‘s “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” and Brett Morgen’s “Cobain: Montage of Heck” will be competing for Emmy Awards in seven categories each at Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmys. And that could be a problem for the films, according to some in the doc community who think Emmy recognition has the potential to brand the films as TV movies in the eyes of Oscar voters.