Has Ravitch hurt 'Superman’s' Oscar ambitions?
Millions of words have been written about Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” and the education policies it promotes, but now we have a new line of analysis about its impact: What are the chances that the education documentary could win an Academy Award?
In a piece on Movie Line’s Web site, editor S.T. VanAirsdale asked whether education historian Diane Ravitch’s scathing review of Superman in The New York Review of Books will effectively serve to derail the movie’s chances of nabbing an Oscar. The movie is beingheavily promoted, with the help of a $2 million grant that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave to market it worldwide.
In the tough review, which you can find here, Ravitch dissects the film
