Oscar officials are reviewing complaints that the recent winner of the short-film documentary, Mighty Times: The Children’s March, misled judges about reenactments in the movie, an Academy Award spokeswoman said.The flap arose shortly after the Feb. 27 awards show when Steven Kalafer, another filmmaker competing for the same Oscar, wrote to the Academy to complain that the winners had failed to disclose they had used reenactments.Rules at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the Oscars, allow documentaries with reenactments to compete for Oscars, so the award would not be taken from director Bobby Houston and producer Robert Hudson.However, the motion picture academy could change the rules in the future based on their findings.
