NEWARK A documentary about the 2002 race for mayor of the state’s largest city has garnered an Oscar nomination for director, producer and writer Marshall Curry. Curry’s 82-minute film, ``Street Fight,’’ chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Newark mayor between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, and Sharpe James, the popular incumbent first elected mayor in 1986. James won the election by 3,500 votes, and Booker announced his intention to run again after his May 2002 loss. The filing deadline for the May 2006 nonpartisan race is March 16. ``Street Fight’’ is one of five nominees in the best documentary feature category, facing competition from ``Darwin’s Nightmare,’’ ``Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,’’ ``March of the Penguins’’ and ``Murderball.’’ New Jersey was also represented last year for a documentary about a Dominican nun who has devoted her life to battling anti-Semitism within the Catholic Church. ``Sister Rose’s Passion,’’ about Whippany resident Sister Rose Thering, was nominated in the short documentary category.