I’ve mentioned several times here how much I love the Oscars. Some years I’ve even seen all the Best Picture nominees before the awards.

This year, I…actually have not seen ANY of the Best Picture nominees, although I hope to change that soon. But Best Picture is not the award I’m excited about in this year of all kinds of weird behind-the-scenes Oscar drama. What I’m actually excited about is Best Documentary Feature. And that’s because my cousin Evan is nominated in that category for producing Free Solo! 

I saw Free Solo when it first hit theaters in October. Since then, it spent a couple of weeks in IMAX, won a BAFTA two weeks ago (yea!), and is coming to Hulu in mid-March. It’s about rock climber Alex Honnold as he attempts to set the record for free solo climbing (which is climbing without a rope). It is seriously nerve-wracking- even though I knew that Alex is alive and well and (spoiler alert) did successfully complete the climb, I didn’t fully grasp the danger until I saw the movie. One wrong move and he would have fallen to his death. Here’s a 360 video that gives you a taste of it: