In a non-descript envelope, with a letter and disk enclosed, comes this HBO documentary that’s certainly in the hunt for a nomination.

Project Nim

Genre: Documentary
Director: James Marsh
Premise: “Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.”
Oscar Chances: Documentary Feature
Rotten Tomatoes:
98% (115 critics; as of 11/7/10)
Metacritic:
83 out of 100 (33 critics; as of 11/7/10)