When the 2023 Oscar nominations were announced last week, media outlets that traffic in awards-show coverage as a form of celebrity gossip flooded the internet with lists of high-profile snubs, headlined by Tom Cruise, Viola Davis, and Taylor Swift. Much harder to find was any thoughtful discussion of the year’s best nonfiction films, or of this year’s most egregious exclusion from the list of Best Documentary Feature nominees: Descendant, by Austin-based filmmaker Margaret Brown.Descendant, executive produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and distributed by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions in collaboration with Netflix, tells the story of the 2019 underwater discovery of the slave ship Clotilda near the delta of the Mobile River in Alabama, where it was secretively burned in July 1860 after…The post The Year’s Most Fascinating Documentary Won’t Be at the Oscars appeared first on Texas Monthly.