Will Anti-Oscar Campaign Pump Up 'Gasland' PR?

While riled-up film students bellyache over Oscar’s decision to include Exit Through the Gift Shop among this year’s Best Documentary nominees, a powerful industry group is challenging the worthiness of Exit’s category-mate, Gasland — and for the first time in Awards history, appealing directly to the Academy for its disqualification.

In an eight-page letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Energy In Depth — a coalition of “independent oil and natural gas producers” — cited Gasland‘s “many errors, inconsistencies and outright falsehoods.”