Morris cuts it close with his Oscar docu

February 23, 2007 The Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker ("The Fog of War") has a rough cut about five minutes long, comprising 110 short clips of interviews he did around Feb. 5 with this year's Oscar nominees. The compression of time between the (Jan. 23) announcement and the (Feb. 25) awards makes it difficult, Morris says. A consummate interviewer and journalist, he also is a master of the shortest form there is, the 30-second commercial.

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