Out of 101 documentary features released this year, the Academy has narrowed down a list of 15 films that will compete for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, including buzzy hits like Inside Job and Waiting for Superman, Sundance and art world sensation Exit Through the Gift Shop from street artist Banksy, and two films about soldiers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, The Tillman Story and Restrepo.

As always there are a few snubs, though most of the year's heaviest hitters are included. Notably missing is Catfish, the Rogue Pictures release that was one of the more widely seen documentaries of the year but also came scrutiny from those who thought it might have been stage. Also missing are Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, 12th and Delaware, A Film Unfinished, Last Train Home and The Oath, all of which had received pockets of critical support.

You can see the full list of 15 below, via Oscars.org. Of the bunch I'd expect to see a fistfight between Inside Job and Waiting for Superman for the top prize; both are highly topical (the economic collapse and education, respectively) and have massive waves of buzz behind them. Personally I'll be rooting for Exit Through the Gift Shop, one of the most energetic and creative films-- not just documentaries-- I've seen all year. If the Academy is feeling particularly punkish this year, maybe they'll give the statue to the anonymous street artist after all.

* “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” Alex Gibney, director (ES Productions LLC)
* “Enemies of the People” Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, directors (Old Street Films)
* “Exit through the Gift Shop” Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)
* “Gasland” Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)
* “Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould” Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont, directors (White Pine Pictures)
* “Inside Job” Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)
* “The Lottery” Madeleine Sackler, director (Great Curve Films)
* “Precious Life” Shlomi Eldar, director (Origami Productions) “Megamind”
* “Quest for Honor” Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, director (Smothers Bruni Productions)
* “Restrepo” Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)
* “This Way of Life” Thomas Burstyn, director (Cloud South Films)
* “The Tillman Story” Amir Bar-Lev, director (Passion Pictures/Axis Films)
* “Waiting for ‘Superman” Davis Guggenheim, director (Electric Kinney Films)
* “Waste Land” Lucy Walker, director (Almega Projects)
* “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, directors (Disturbing the Universe LLC)