Short Film News (SFN) - Errol Morris and Werner Herzog are among filmmakers whose films compete for nomination at 81st Academy Awards' feature documentary category.

A record of 94 pictures had originally qualified in the category and Academy members will now select the five nominees among the 15 titles on the shortlist.

The docs in the shortlist are:

At the Death House Door by Peter Gilbert and Steve James
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) by Ellen Kuras
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh by Robert Grossman
Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog
Fuel by Joshua Tickell
The Garden by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts by Scott Hicks
I.O.U.S.A. by Patrick Creadon
In a Dream by Jeremiah Zagar
Made in America by Stacy Peralta
Man on Wire by James Marsh
Pray the Devil Back to Hell by Gini Reticker
Standard Operating Procedure by Errol Morris
They Killed Sister Dorothy by Daniel Junge
Trouble the Water by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin

The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater and the awards will be presented on February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre.