Those movie-going environmentalists over at TreeHugger have compiled a helpful listicle that could just as easily read “Top 5 Food Movies of 2008.” For the year that saw the new localism go global (”glocalism”?) and widespread awareness of what’s at stake in the shifting debates over how we produce and distribute our food, it makes sense that food films should have played an integral role. That said, the “Best Documentary” category at the Oscars is pretty stacked already – Man on Wire, Trouble the Water, Waltz with Bashir – so we sort of understand why these movies are missing. Still, each should be seen by anybody who buys food, so add seek out Treehugger’s 5 Food Films That Deserved Oscar Nominations.

The World According to Monsanto

King Corn

Our Daily Bread

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Food Fight

Strangely Absent: FLOW: For Love of Water