Oscar controversy deepens for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s documentary, as filmmakers challenge Academy’s decision
Filmmakers, including director Nenad Cicin-Sain, claim the documentary was screened in 139 AMC theaters in many large cities, including Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. However, the Academy disqualified *Kiss the Future* for not having screened three times a day in a single theatre in one of these cities, not meeting one of the requirements of Rule 12 in the Academy’s regulations for documentary features. This decision the filmmakers contested to point out that the rule does not state expressly that they all have to screen in one theatre but one of the qualifying cities.