Awards season may have only just begun, but one controversial Hollywood-embedded organization has already launched a nasty smear campaign, according to a new report on Wednesday.

The Hollywood Reporter alleges that Scientologists are doing what they can to dampen any potential Oscar momentum for Alex Gibney’s damning documentary, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, which has already won three Emmys. The film, which is based on the best-selling book of similar name by Lawrence Wright, premiered at Sundance this year and essentially alleges that Scientology is a multi-billion-dollar organization based on a nonsensical set of doctrines that manipulates and abuses its members and launches frightening attacks on its critics. And according to The Hollywood Reporter, Scientology is doing just that to crush the unflattering documentary in its awards-season path.

The organization’s alleged smear campaign involves making a documentary about and writing a profile of Gibney, according to the Reporter, for which a writer has begun reaching out to members of the Academy’s documentary branch. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy confirmed that she was one of the documentarians contacted by this writer. The writer, however, did not disclose for which publication he was working.

“In this context, to not say [that he wrote for Scientology magazine Freedom] was disingenuous, and I thought something was suspect,” Kennedy said. “He definitely had an agenda.” The Reporter adds that there have been increased aggression and confrontations during Q&As for the documentary in recent weeks.

Mike Rinder, a former spokesman and top executive for the organization, told the Reporter, “It’s really pretty bizarre to me that they just keep doing this crazy stuff that is such a clear-cut demonstration of the veracity of both Larry’s book and Alex’s film.”

If Wright’s damning Scientology documentary is nominated for an Oscar, its awards run will likely inspire several months of media attention devoted to a film project that eviscerates the controversial organization.

When VF.com reached out for comment, Scientology's media center said, “This is yet another publicity stunt by Alex Gibney to influence awards voting by spinning legitimate criticism of his one-side propaganda. . .Since we found out about a year ago that Alex Gibney had done a film on Scientology, we have been aggressively answering the false allegations in his film because he never presented us with a single one of these lies before release.”

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