Battle For Brooklyn Getting Close to the Oscars

Photo: Tracy Collins

Is our nabe headed to the Oscars? Maaaaybe. Battle For Brooklyn, a feature length documentary about the controversial Atlantic Yards project, is one of fourteen films currently in the running for an Oscar nomination. 

Husband and wife filmmaker team Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky spent eight years carving over 500 hours of footage down into the feature length documentary, which has won numerous festival awards, including this year's Rooftop Films Summer Series Official Selection (you can read our FiPS review of the film HERE).

“I’m not placing odds on us [winning],” Galinsky recently told the Brooklyn Paper. “I’m very excited that we even have a chance.”

Battle for Brooklyn was one of fourteen lucky films plucked from an initial 124 award-winning pre-nominations, which will be whittled down to 5 official Oscar Nominations on January 24th of next year (I'm very much looking forward to City Slickers darling Billy Crystal to host, btw). 

Brooklyn resident Daniel Goldstein, the focal point of the film and recent controversial figure himself, told the paper, “The Oscar recognition will loudly amplifiy the community’s voice of opposition and further expose the corrupt Atlantic Yards boondoggles,” he said. “It also provides clear evidence that the community’s fight in Brooklyn has universal interest.”

Oh, the Boondoggles. Always trying to build where they're not wanted and messing with those Fraggles. 

Suki and Michael, we wish you luck!