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Last year, Netflix made its first play for Oscar when it acquired the documentary "The Square," an eventual nominee for Best Documentary Feature. That didn't pan out – "20 Feet from Stardom" took the prize – but the online streaming service could well return to the race with "Mission Blue," whose environmental activism is likely to be right up the academy's alley. -Break- Oscars mystery solved: Which films are at which festivals? The film follows Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist who has broken ground for female scientists throughout her career. After falling in love with the ocean as a child, she grew up to watch pollution and overfishing by humans decimate its biodiversity. The film is directed by Robert Nixon and Fisher Stevens. Nixon previously earned an Oscar bid in 1989 for Best Live-Action Short for "Amazon Diary," and Stevens won as a producer of the feature documentary &quo...
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