For the "real" realities of high-school sports, one can turn to "Undefeated, " a current Oscar nominee for best documentary and a political film by default.

WSJ: Undefeated | Thin Ice | On the Ice | Real School Football (Almost) | Film Review by John Anderson

She won the award for best documentary in the short subject category for her film Saving Face, about acid attacks on women.

BBC: Pakistan's Oscar triumph for acid attack film Saving Face

The film also is nominated for best documentary at the Oscars.

BBC: Ben Affleck wins Directors Guild award

The film is a contender for a best documentary Oscar.

FORBES: Taking The Gloves Off

On Monday night, I had a chance to attend a screening of Saving Face, the film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short last month.

FORBES: Saving Face: A conversation with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The best documentary prize sees UK graffiti artist Banksy nominated for his anarchic film Exit Through the Gift Shop.

BBC: Colin Firth leads British charge at Academy Awards

Searching For Sugar Man has also been nominated for a best documentary Bafta and won the audience awards at both the Sundance and Los Angeles film festivals.

BBC: Rodriguez 'to play Glastonbury Festival'

Named the Best Documentary of the year by the National Board of Review, and cited by the American Film Institute as one of the year's best movies, WAITING FOR "SUPERMAN" was called "an electrifying call to action" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), and has launched a movement to achieve real and lasting change in the nation's schools.

ENGADGET: Waiting for Superman Blu-ray dated February 15th with HD special features & donation credit

That 2006 film became one of the highest-grossing documentaries in history, and won the Academy Award for best documentary.

FORBES: '08 Tracker: November

Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has become the first Pakistani to win an Oscar nomination for best documentary in the short subject category.

BBC: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy dreams of Pakistan's first Oscar