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Best Documentary  |  Archive

    • Special Achievement In Filmmaking
    • Special Achievement in Producing
    • Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Award
    • Top 10 Independent Films
    • Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects
    • Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
    • Best Actor
    • Top 5 Documentaries
    • Career Achievement in Music Composition
    • NBR Icon Award
    • Best Actress
    • NBR Freedom Of Expression
    • Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV
    • Best Film
    • Spotlight Award
    • Producers Award
    • Best International Film
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Top 5 Foreign Language Films
    • Outstanding Film Music Composition
    • Top 5 International Films
    • Best Supporting Actress
    • Top Films
    • Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • William K. Everson Award for Film History
    • Special Citations
    • Best Animated Feature
    • Breakthrough Performance
    • Humanitarian Award
    • Best Director
    • Top Independent Films
    • International Freedom Award
    • Best Directorial Debut
    • Production Design Award
    • Special Award for Visionary Cinematic Achievement
    • Best Documentary
    • Best Ensemble Cast
    • Best Screenplay
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • Career Achievement in Cinematography
    • Outstanding Dramatic Music Performance
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Career Achievement Award
    • Outstanding Cinematic Series
    • Breakthrough Performance Actor
    • Career Achievement in Producing
    • Top Foreign Films
    • Breakthrough Performance Actress
    • Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking
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2022 Best Documentary

"Sr." 

2021 Best Documentary

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised) 

2020 Best Documentary

Time 

2019 Best Documentary

Maiden 

2018 Best Documentary

RBG 

2017 Best Documentary

Jane 

2016 Best Documentary

OJ: Made in America 

2015 Best Documentary

Amy 

2014 Best Documentary

Life Itself 

2013 Best Documentary

Stories We Tell 

2012 Best Documentary

Searching for Sugar Man 

2011 Best Documentary

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory  

2010 Best Documentary

Waiting for "Superman" 

2009 Best Documentary

The Cove 

2008 Best Documentary

Man on Wire 

2007 Best Documentary

Body of War 

2006 Best Documentary

An Inconvenient Truth 

2005 Best Documentary

March of the Penguins  

2004 Best Documentary

Born Into Brothels 

2003 Best Documentary

The Fog of War  

2002 Best Documentary

Bowling for Columbine 

2001 Best Documentary

The Endurance 

2000 Best Documentary

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg 

1999 Best Documentary

Buena Vista Social Club 

1998 Best Documentary

Wild Man Blues 

1997 Best Documentary

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 

1996 Best Documentary

Paradise Lost 

1995 Best Documentary

Crumb 

1994 Best Documentary

Hoop Dreams 

1993 Best Documentary

The War Room 

1992 Best Documentary

My Brother's Keeper 

1989 Best Documentary

Roger & Me 

1988 Best Documentary

The Thin Blue Line 

1940 Best Documentary

The Fight for Life 

1944 Best Documentary

Battle for the Marianas  The Battle for New Britian  Memphis Belle, Attack!  Tunisian Victory  With the Marines at Tarawa 

1943 Best Documentary

Battle of Russia  Desert Victory  Prelude to War  Saludos Amigos  The Silent Village 

1942 Best Documentary

Moscow Strikes Back  Native Land  Word in Action 

1941 Best Documentary

The Forgotten Village  Ku Kan  The Land  Target for Tonight 

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