UNDER OUR SKIN makes the Oscar “short list”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that UNDER OUR SKIN was selected as one of the 15 finalists competing for “Best Documentary Feature” in the 82nd Academy Awards®.
Unfolding like a real-life thriller, UNDER OUR SKIN exposes the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease and reveals how our corrupt medical system is failing to address one of the most serious illnesses of our time. Open Eye Pictures is thrilled that the Academy has honored the courageous Lyme patients and physicians whose stories are told in this film. And we hope that this nomination will help spread awareness about this devastating disease and serve as a catalyst for fixing our country’s broken health care system.
The Documentary Branch Screening Academy Committee viewed all eighty-nine qualifying documentaries during the preliminary round of voting. Academy members will now select five nominees from among the 15 titles on the shortlist, and Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010.
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I was very impressed with this documentary, and as a Lyme Patient myself i could totally relate to the controversy that still exits with this awful Disease. I hope this documentary gets the attention it deserves, our health care system is surely broken and needs immediate repair.
Incredibly exciting! This attention alone will interest people who may otherwise not be aware of the seriousness of living with Lyme and co.
Awesome! An Oscar for “Under Our Skin” would be phenomenal for Lyme awareness!!! =)
Congratulations!!!!!!!!! We are praying that it makes it in the top five!!! So much to be proud of Andy and all!!!
Awesome – this will send the news about Lyme around the world!
Such exciting news! Congrats! Praying it makes it to top 5, too!
Hallelujah!!!
Congratulations !!! This is one of the best documentaries I have seen and it deserves to win. My whole family is suffering with lyme disease in America and Sweden. This is a world-wide epidemic on a major scale.
This news has made my year! My whole family has been traumatized by this horrific illness and Andy, with the help of Mandy and many other Lyme victims have exposed this epidemic in our country like never before.
Congratulations, Andy! Most importantly, on behalf of the Lyme community, thank you.
Congratulations, Open Eye Pictures, and everyone involved!
This is tremendous affirmation for your mission. You have saved lives, many no doubt.
Cannot thank you enough for Under Our Skin.
It needs to be shown in the Ozarks then,because here people do not belive in tick borne disease…even the doctors.Most think it is just in other places..yeah ok…thats like saying even though I have family with breast cancer ,I can’t get it because they live 2 states away from me…family is family and ticks are ticks..they don’t all look the same but they can all make you sick!!Have a showing in Branson Please!
Fabulous news! With this kind of exposure, Under Our Skin should succeed in enlightening the medical mainstream about the perils of mis/undiagnosed Lyme disease.
Congratulations Andy Abrahams Wilson and everyone else who worked tirelessly putting this film together and bringing it to the North American public!
Canada cheers you all the way to the Oscar!
This is excellant news, I hope it is picked as the winner as it certainly is in the eyes of those with lyme. I was infected back in 1976 and have been diagnoised in 2006 so I really hope anyone infected today does get fast and immediate medical treatment as that would help that person stay healthy. The suffering going on is criminal.
This movie is the best bet for change!
I am so proud as a Lyme patient and a doctor.
You have achieved a great milestone.
Thank you
Janete Cabral
Dr. Maria J Cabral MBChB, BSc, MRCGP
Nova Scotia – Canada
Thank you for enlightening so many people on Lyme Disease. This documentary brings forward the critical need for public awareness, early diagnosis and proper treatment.
I hope the medical community is watching!!!
Great Job!!
S. McCarthy
This is great news! Congratulations!!
Under Our Skin deserves to be one of the top five, and even though I haven’t seen the others, feel sure nothing else could match it for the powerful way it takes on the issues around the growing disaster that is Lyme disease. It exposes questions that needed to be asked and answered. Any time I’ve seen it with an audience I’ve heard gasps at times, people just find it so incredible. It is an incredible documentary, and I, a person battling Lyme disease, will be hoping and dreaming that it wins the Academy Award as it should.
5 star film. Go win an OSCAR. Andy Wilson deserves it. And I wish him great recognition.
Congratulations to all the hard-working crew at Open Eye Pictures and Turn the Corner Foundation!! All of us in the Lyme Community are hoping, hoping for this little film that could.
I think of my friend Leslie Wermers…and how excited and proud she would be to hear this. The awareness that could be taught if this got Oscar’s nod!! My daughter has been struggling with Lyme and co-infections for over eleven years now…the first eight years with hardly any help because of the ignorance and arrogance of doctors who sit firmly with the disinformation of the IDSA.
Wishing you all the best…and giving thanks for this movie as we sit down to Thanksgiving soon.
Lorraine and Anna Hart xo
Well done Under Our Skin very well deserved. Thank you for all you do for us.
Congratulations Andy, Kris, everyone at Open Eye — Under Our Skin is an incredible achievement that conveys a very complicated, controversial and emotionally difficult subject in a tangible, human, understandable, and interesting way.
The recognition is richly deserved.
My husband, Dick, and I saw a copy of this amazing film when we were visiting friends in Canada. It has stayed with me since and struck all of us as one of the most important studies and evaluations in medicine today. I’m so thrilled that this incredibly important work is being recognized in such a public way and my heart still goes out to all the Lyme disease warriors who’ve put their lives and reputations on the line over the years. We pulling for you!!!
Dick & Diane Orkin
Well done to you all
i hope it gets short listed
congratulations
Ann (Ireland)
I will weep tears of joy if I get to see the Oscars and get to hear Under Our Skin announced. I say anyone who says that Lyme patients are a cult or “looking for a disease” to just get humble and hope that they or someone they love doesn’t have to try to get help from the ignorant doctors and hospitals. I run a support group and the stories I hear are heartbreaking. Evelyn Throne Lower Bucks Lyme Disease Support group, Pennsylvania
Awesome documentary. It’s a real eye opener and one that needs to be addressed.
Excellent work
Congratulation and great job!
I just read the negative comment of Owen Gleiberman movie critics in regards of Under Our Skin not deserving to be on the list and proclaiming Oscar documentary Scandal.
To see his comments go to:http://movie-critics.ew.com/2009/11/20/oscar-documentary-scandal/
As for my response of his article in regards to his comment of Under Our Skin that I posted on their sites is as follow:
The above comment you made, “Lyme disease has become something of a cult one that can ruin the lives of the people who think they have it.” This is very insulting, disturbing and dismissing to the people that are suffering from this disease. I ask of you, would you make such a comment of someone who has been diagnosed with other diseases such as Leukemia? Cancer? Multiple sclerosis? Acid reflux? Acne? AIDS? Parkinson? Diabetics? Etc…
Are you an expert in this area or just playing doctor without a license?
You say that “Under Our Skin is a documentary about Lyme disease that embraces, with bits and pieces of skimpy evidence.”
For the record, the causative agent of Lyme disease was discovered in 1981 by William Burgdorfer. It is a bacterial infection and it is also a reportable disease to the Center of Disease Control. Have they joined a cult as well?
After careful review and investigation The State Attorney General of Connecticut has launched an antitrust investigation against the Infectious Disease Society of America due to their treatment medical guidelines and conflicts of interest. A hearing took place on July 30, 2009 in Washington DC. Are you implying that the State Attorney General Office has also has joined a cult as well in regards to Lyme disease?
I would like to point out to you that it took 28 years for someone to pay attention to this disease since the causative agent of Lyme disease was discovered and to finally have someone make a movie/documentary about it. What’s wrong with that?
For the record, many movies and documentaries have been made about other diseases and it did not take 28 years.
You state that the movie is made of “paranoid leftist fervor.”
Please provide proof that every single party involved in the making of the movie was a leftist and was clinically diagnosed with paranoia. Also, please provide proof that every single patient that complains from persistent Lyme disease is also a paranoid leftist.
Again, Lyme disease is a bacterial infection, not a cult.
You indicated that Under Our Skin does not belong as an Oscar nominee – Why not?
Thank you for giving us such an excellent example of the attitude that many Lyme disease patients are confronted with when they try to obtain a proper diagnosis.
As a medical social worker and mother of a lyme disease patient I’m excited this movie is the noise that is needed to give this disease the credibility that it is “due”. All of the people this has affected, I’m sure would have loved to brush this off as a cult. Thank you for all your hard work!!
As someone that was bitten by a tick in Warsaw, Missouri and contracted Lyme Disease and then told that there wasn’t any Lyme Disease in MIssouri or Kansas by an infectious disease doctor then this is exactly the extra attention that Under Our Skin needs and deserves. This disease has taken my job, my house and robbed me of many, many days of my life. Getting better but have a long way to go.
Thank you Andy and all else involved with your “labor of love”!
This film will go all the way. The Oscar is in the bag.
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Congratulations! All of you at Under Our Skin thoroughly deserve this recognition. You made an amazing film both technically and artistically. And you went one step further….you made a film that is changing people’s lives. Not many can say this.
This is wonderful news! As someone who has suffered for at least the past 20 years without a lyme diagnosis and having symptoms of lupus, MS and parkinson’s at times and then finally getting the correct diagnosis of Lyme Disease and then seeing the documentary that I was not alone all those years but that others also understand how many doctors you have to see before you get the correct diagnosis was a real eye-opener for me and I know for a lot of other people. You will truly open the eyes of the medical community with this wonderful documentary and I know that it will win.
Since UOS was so close to winning an Oscar for this documentary, why hasn’t the idea proposed to have everyone at the Oscars were the Lyme green ribbons for Lyme Awareness?
I think we should rally for that.
Having “Under Our Skin” make the top 15, is a wounderful accomplishment. I do not have lyme disease; but have seen the devastation a person suffering with this horrible disease endures, and the financial burden on families who can lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, so pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies don’t have to cover the expenses. If people could educate themselves on how big companies are keeping this disease hush, hush, we would all find them guilty and liable in a court of law. Spread the news about Lyme.