Nails (film)
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Nails is a 1979 Canadian short documentary film
directed by Phillip Borsos
. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
.
The subject of the film was simply the manufacturing process used to make nails.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Phillip Borsos
Phillip Borsos
Phillip Borsos was Canadian film director and film producer.Borsos showed an early interest in film-making while attending high school in Maple Ridge, B.C...
. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
.
The subject of the film was simply the manufacturing process used to make nails.