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The days get shorter, the air gets crisper, the foliage turns red, screeners and invitations start pouring in, and your inbox is jammed with "For Your Consideration" e-mails. Awards Season has arrived. This year, a staggering 124 documentary feature films were submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration. In early December, this number was winnowed down to a short list of 15.

As if making a documentary were not hard enough, upon reaching completion and release, filmmakers have to rely on a separate skill set to promote their work and rise above the fray. With a mere three months—at the time of writing—before the five nominees are announced, Documentary turned to previous winners and nominees, as well experts in the field on how to navigate the murky waters of awards campaigning.

What advice would you give to a filmmaker who is approaching this for the first time?

Morgan Neville (2014 Academy Award-winner for Twenty Feet from Stardom; co-director of Best of Enemies): When you make a film, you only ever think about your production schedule and your production budget. What you don't realize is that once the film is out there, the whole other part of your job i

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Beauty and life

As time moved on Mary Lasker’s philanthropy moved with it. Besides her fund-raising for the NIH and cancer, she became involved in raising money for AIDS. She took Elizabeth Taylor to lobby Congress, advising the star: “Be sure to wear a low neckline.”

I had the privilege of meeting Mrs. Lasker in the early 80s. I had known about her beautification project along Park Avenue and about her great medical research foundation and the prestige of that award. She had a stature that was both stylish and far-thinking in the public consciousness. She was highly respected. She used to rent a house in Beverly Hills for six weeks in the dead of New York winter. Edie Goetz, the eldest daughter of L.B. Mayer, who in her prime was the empress of filmland society, and also had an intense interest in medical research befriended Mrs. Lasker, who was often a guest at her dinners.

	Mary Lasker and Hillary Clinton at the 1993 Lasker Awards luncheon.

Then in her early 80s, she still cut a glamorous figure. Women dressed for the Goetz dinners – long dresses, jewels, etc. (men: dark suits). On one such night, there were six of us at a smaller table in the bay of the dining room (with its Fantin Latour, Bonnard, Degas, Modigliani, Manet and Picasso pa