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Documentary · 82 ceremonies · 1943-present

2025 (98TH)
Poster for Mr. Nobody against Putin
David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber, Alžběta Karásková
Mr. Nobody against Putin
2024 (97TH)
Poster for No Other Land
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham
No Other Land
2023 (96TH)
Poster for 20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath
20 Days in Mariupol
2022 (95TH)
Poster for Navalny
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Shane Boris
Navalny
2021 (94TH)
Poster for Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2025 (98th)
Best Documentary Feature Film
David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber, Alžběta Karásková
Mr. Nobody against Putin
Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman
The Alabama Solution
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen
Come See Me in the Good Light
Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
Cutting through Rocks
Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee
The Perfect Neighbor
2024 (97th)
Best Documentary Feature Film
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham
No Other Land
Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin
Black Box Diaries
Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska, Paula DuPre' Pesmen
Porcelain War
Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn
Sugarcane
2023 (96th)
Best Documentary Feature Film
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath
20 Days in Mariupol
Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp, John Battsek
Bobi Wine: The People's President
Maite Alberdi
The Eternal Memory
Kaouther Ben Hania, Nadim Cheikhrouha
Four Daughters
Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe, David Oppenheim
To Kill a Tiger
2022 (95th)
Best Documentary Feature Film
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Shane Boris
Navalny
Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann, Teddy Leifer
All That Breathes
Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Ina Fichman
Fire of Love
Simon Lereng Wilmont, Monica Hellström
A House Made of Splinters
2021 (94th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell
Ascension
Stanley Nelson, Traci A. Curry
Attica
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie
Flee
Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
Writing with Fire
2020 (93rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster
My Octopus Teacher
Alexander Nanau, Bianca Oana
Collective
Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Sara Bolder
Crip Camp
Maite Alberdi, Marcela Santibáñez
The Mole Agent
Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn
Time
2019 (92nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert
American Factory
Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod, Sigrid Dyekjær
The Cave
Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, Tiago Pavan
The Edge of Democracy
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
For Sama
Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, Atanas Georgiev
Honeyland
2018 (91st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, Shannon Dill
Free Solo
RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Bing Liu, Diane Quon
Minding the Gap
Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert
Of Fathers and Sons
Betsy West, Julie Cohen
RBG
2017 (90th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan
Icarus
Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Agnès Varda, JR, Rosalie Varda
Faces Places
Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Søren Steen Jespersen
Last Men in Aleppo
Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes
Strong Island
2016 (89th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow
O.J.: Made in America
Gianfranco Rosi, Donatella Palermo
Fire at Sea
Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck
I Am Not Your Negro
Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman
Life, Animated
Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish
13th
2015 (88th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees
Amy
Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin
Cartel Land
Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
The Look of Silence
Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby, Justin Wilkes
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
2014 (87th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
CitizenFour
John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Finding Vivian Maier
Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester
Last Days in Vietnam
Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
The Salt of the Earth
Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara
Virunga
2013 (86th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers
20 Feet from Stardom
Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
The Act of Killing
Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher
Cutie and the Boxer
Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill
Dirty Wars
Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer
The Square
2012 (85th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
Searching for Sugar Man
Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
5 Broken Cameras
Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, Estelle Fialon
The Gatekeepers
David France, Howard Gertler
How to Survive a Plague
Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
The Invisible War
2011 (84th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, Rich Middlemas
Undefeated
Danfung Dennis, Mike Lerner
Hell and Back Again
Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel
Pina
2010 (83rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
Inside Job
Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz
Exit through the Gift Shop
Josh Fox, Trish Adlesic
Gasland
Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Restrepo
Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley
Waste Land
2009 (82nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens
The Cove
Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller
Burma VJ
Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein
Food, Inc.
Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Rebecca Cammisa
Which Way Home
2008 (81st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
James Marsh, Simon Chinn
Man on Wire
Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
Encounters at the End of the World
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
The Garden
Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Trouble the Water
2007 (80th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Alex Gibney, Eva Orner
Taxi to the Dark Side
Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
No End in Sight
Richard E. Robbins
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara
Sicko
Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine
War/Dance
2006 (79th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Davis Guggenheim
An Inconvenient Truth
Amy Berg, Frank Donner
Deliver Us from Evil
James Longley, John Sinno
Iraq in Fragments
Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Jesus Camp
Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
My Country, My Country
2005 (78th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau
March of the Penguins
Hubert Sauper
Darwin's Nightmare
Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Murderball
Marshall Curry
Street Fight
2004 (77th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
Born into Brothels
Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Morgan Spurlock
Super Size Me
Lauren Lazin, Karolyn Ali
Tupac: Resurrection
Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt
Twist of Faith
2003 (76th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Errol Morris, Michael Williams
The Fog of War
Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Domenech
Balseros
Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling
Capturing the Friedmans
Nathaniel Kahn, Susan R. Behr
My Architect
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
The Weather Underground
2002 (75th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Michael Moore, Michael Donovan
Bowling for Columbine
Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
Daughter from Danang
Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Prisoner of Paradise
Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch
Spellbound
Jacques Perrin
Winged Migration
2001 (74th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Edet Belzberg
Children Underground
Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
Promises
Christian Frei
War Photographer
2000 (73rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Tod Lending
Legacy
Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann
Long Night's Journey into Day
Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg
Sound and Fury
1999 (72nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
One Day in September
Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
Buena Vista Social Club
Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
Genghis Blues
Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
On the Ropes
Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster
Speaking in Strings
1998 (71st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
James Moll, Ken Lipper
The Last Days
Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer
Dancemaker
Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus
The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.
Robert B. Weide
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole
Regret to Inform
1997 (70th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
The Long Way Home
Michael Paxton
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
Michèle Ohayon, Julia Schachter
Colors Straight Up
Spike Lee, Sam Pollard
4 Little Girls
Dan Gifford, William Gazecki
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
1996 (69th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Leon Gast, David Sonenberg
When We Were Kings
Susan W. Dryfoos
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
Jo Menell, Angus Gibson
Mandela
Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson
Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
Rick Goldsmith
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
1995 (68th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Jon Blair
Anne Frank Remembered
Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein
The Battle over Citizen Kane
Allan Miller, Walter Scheuer
Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program
Mike Tollin, Fredric Golding
Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream
Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
1994 (67th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Deborah Hoffmann
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
Charles Guggenheim
D-Day Remembered
Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
Freedom on My Mind
Jean Bach
A Great Day in Harlem
1993 (66th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
David Paperny, Arthur Ginsberg
The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter
Susan Todd, Andrew Young
Children of Fate
David Collier, Betsy Thompson
For Better or for Worse
D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
The War Room
1992 (65th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Barbara Trent, David Kasper
The Panama Deception
David Haugland
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
Sally Dundas
Fires of Kuwait
William Miles, Nina Rosenblum
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
Margaret Smilow, Roma Baran
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1991 (64th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Allie Light, Irving Saraf
In the Shadow of the Stars
Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag
Death on the Job
Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond
Doing Time: Life inside the Big House
Hava Kohav Beller
The Restless Conscience
Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey
Wild by Law
1990 (63rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn
American Dream
Mark Kitchell
Berkeley in the Sixties
Mark Mori, Susan Robinson
Building Bombs
Judith Montell
Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Robert Hillmann, Eugene Corr
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1989 (62nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Robert Epstein, Bill Couturié
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Richard Kilberg, Yvonne Smith
Adam Clayton Powell
Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag
Crack USA: County under Siege
Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier
For All Mankind
Judith Leonard, Bill Jersey
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
1988 (61st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Marcel Ophuls
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Robert Bilheimer, Ronald Mix
The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out
Bruce Weber, Nan Bush
Let's Get Lost
Ginny Durrin
Promises to Keep
Renee Tajima, Christine Choy
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1987 (60th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Aviva Slesin
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965
John Junkerman, John W. Dower
Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
Robert Stone
Radio Bikini
Barbara Herbich, Cyril Christo
A Stitch for Time
1986 (59th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Brigitte Berman
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got 
Joseph Feury, Milton Justice
Down and Out in America 
David Bradbury
Chile: Hasta Cuando?
Kirk Simon, Amram Nowak
Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sharon I. Sopher
Witness to Apartheid
1985 (58th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd
Broken Rainbow
Susana Muñoz, Lourdes Portillo
Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Japhet Asher
Soldiers in Hiding
Ken Burns, Buddy Squires
The Statue of Liberty
Steven Okazaki
Unfinished Business
1984 (57th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen
The Times of Harvey Milk
Charles Guggenheim, Nancy Sloss
High Schools
Alex W. Drehsler, Frank Christopher
In the Name of the People
Karel Dirka, Zev Braun
Marlene
Cheryl McCall
Streetwise
1983 (56th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Emile Ardolino
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
Richard Kotuk, Ara Chekmayan
Children of Darkness
Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
First Contact
Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen
The Profession of Arms
James Klein, Julia Reichert
Seeing Red
1982 (55th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
John Zaritsky
Just Another Missing Kid
Sturla Gunnarsson, Steve Lucas
After the Axe
John Karol, Michel Chalufour
Ben's Mill
Meg Switzgable
In Our Water
Joseph Wishy
A Portrait of Giselle
1981 (54th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier
Genocide
Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin, Jim Burroughs
Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey
Ken Burns
Brooklyn Bridge
Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson, Boyd Estus
Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott
Glenn Silber, Tete Vasconcellos
El Salvador: Another Vietnam
1980 (53rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Murray Lerner
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
Ross Spears
Agee
Jon Else
The Day after Trinity
David Bradbury
Front Line
Bengt von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn
The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45
1979 (52nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Ira Wohl
Best Boy
David A. Vassar
Generation on the Wind
Paul Cowan, Jacques Bobet
Going the Distance
Steve Singer, Tom Priestley
The Killing Ground
Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown
The War at Home
1978 (51st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Arnold Shapiro
Scared Straight!
Albert Lamorisse
The Lovers' Wind
Alan Root
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams, Michel Gast
Raoni
Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb, Lorraine Gray
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
1977 (50th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
John Korty, Dan McCann, Warren L. Lockhart
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack
The Children of Theatre Street
Bill Brind, Torben Schioler, Tony Ianzelo
High Grass Circus
Harry Rasky
Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love
James Klein, Julia Reichert, Miles Mogulescu
Union Maids
1976 (49th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Barbara Kopple
Harlan County, U.S.A.
James Gutman, David Helpern Jr.
Hollywood on Trial
Michael Firth
Off the Edge
Anthony Howarth, David Koff
People of the Wind
Donald Brittain, Robert Duncan
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
1975 (48th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
F. R. Crawley, James Hager, Dale Hartleben
The Man Who Skied down Everest
Walter F. Parkes, Keith F. Critchlow
The California Reich
Glen Pearcy
Fighting for Our Lives
Irwin Rosten
The Incredible Machine
Shirley MacLaine
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
1974 (47th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Peter Davis, Bert Schneider
Hearts and Minds
Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
Herbert Kline
The Challenge...A Tribute to Modern Art
Jacquot Ehrlich, David Bergman, Haim Gouri
The 81st Blow
Natalie R. Jones, Eugene S. Jones
The Wild and the Brave
1973 (46th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Kieth Merrill
The Great American Cowboy
John D. Goodell
Always a New Beginning
Bengt von zur Muehlen
Battle of Berlin
Alex Grasshoff
Journey to the Outer Limits
Gertrude Ross Marks, Edmund F. Penney
Walls of Fire
1972 (45th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan
Marjoe
Bert Haanstra
Ape and Super-Ape
Marvin Worth, Arnold Perl
Malcolm X
Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick
Manson
Eckehard Munck
The Silent Revolution
1971 (44th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Walon Green
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Alan Landsburg
Alaska Wilderness Lake
Bruce Brown
On Any Sunday
Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl
The RA Expeditions
Marcel Ophuls
The Sorrow and the Pity
1970 (43rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Bob Maurice
Woodstock
Dr. Harald Reinl
Chariots of the Gods
Jim Jacobs
Jack Johnson
Ely Landau
King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis
David H. Vowell
Say Goodbye
1969 (42nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Bernard Chevry
Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life
Robert K. Sharpe
Before the Mountain Was Moved
Emile de Antonio
In the Year of the Pig
Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada
The Olympics in Mexico
Irwin Rosten
The Wolf Men
1968 (41st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Bill McGaw
Journey into Self 
James Blue
A Few Notes on Our Food Problem
William Cayton
The Legendary Champions
David H. Sawyer
Other Voices
Robert Cohn, Alex Grasshoff
Young Americans 
1967 (40th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Anderson Platoon
Murray Lerner
Festival
Carroll Ballard
Harvest
Jack Le Vien
A King's Story
William C. Jersey
A Time for Burning
1966 (39th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Peter Watkins
The War Game
Alfred R. Kelman
The Face of Genius
Peter Jones, Tom Daly
Helicopter Canada
Haroun Tazieff
Le Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano)
Alex Grasshoff
The Really Big Family
1965 (38th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Sidney Glazier
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Laurence E. Mascott
The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles
Peter Mills
The Forth Road Bridge
Marshall Flaum
Let My People Go
Frédéric Rossif
To Die in Madrid
1964 (37th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun
Jack Le Vien
The Finest Hours
Mel Stuart
Four Days in November
Bert Haanstra
The Human Dutch
Jean Aurel
Over There, 1914-18
1963 (36th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Robert Hughes
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
Paul de Roubaix
Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain)
Marshall Flaum
The Yanks Are Coming
1962 (35th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Louis Clyde Stoumen
Black Fox
Hugo Niebeling
Alvorada (Brazil's Changing Face)
1961 (34th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Arthur Cohn, Rene Lafuite
Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)
dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade
La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960)
1960 (33rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Larry Lansburgh
The Horse with the Flying Tail
Robert D. Fraser
Rebel in Paradise
1959 (32nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Bernhard Grzimek
Serengeti Shall Not Die
David L. Wolper
The Race for Space
1958 (31st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Ben Sharpsteen
White Wilderness
James Carr
Antarctic Crossing
Robert Snyder
The Hidden World
Nathan Zucker
Psychiatric Nursing
1957 (30th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Jerome Hill
Albert Schweitzer
Lionel Rogosin
On the Bowery
Manuel Barbachano Ponce
Torero!
1956 (29th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The Silent World
Louis Clyde Stoumen
The Naked Eye
The Government Film Committee of Denmark
Where Mountains Float
1955 (28th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Nancy Hamilton
Helen Keller in Her Story
Rene Risacher
Heartbreak Ridge
1954 (27th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Walt Disney
The Vanishing Prairie
Guy Glover
The Stratford Adventure
1953 (26th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Walt Disney
The Living Desert
John Taylor, Leon Clore, Grahame Tharp
The Conquest of Everest
Castleton Knight
A Queen Is Crowned
1952 (25th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Irwin Allen
The Sea around Us
Dore Schary
The Hoaxters
Hall Bartlett
Navajo
1951 (24th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Olle Nordemar
Kon-Tiki
Bryan Foy
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
1950 (23rd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Robert Snyder
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman
With These Hands
1949 (22nd)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Crown Film Unit
Daybreak in Udi
Paul F. Heard
Kenji Comes Home
1948 (21st)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Orville O. Dull
The Secret Land
Janice Loeb
The Quiet One
1947 (20th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard O. Fleischer
Design for Death
United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange
Journey into Medicine
Paul Rotha
The World Is Rich
1945 (18th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America
The True Glory
United States Army Air Force
The Last Bomb
1944 (17th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
United States Navy
The Fighting Lady
United States Army Air Force
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1943 (16th)
Best Documentary (Feature)
British Ministry of Information
Desert Victory
United States Army
Baptism of Fire
United States Department of War Special Service Division
The Battle of Russia
United States Army Pictorial Service
Report from the Aleutians
United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau
War Department Report
#
1Walt Disney225922
2Charles Guggenheim20124
3Shirley MacLaine1061
4Dore Schary1061
5Terry Sanders1152
6William Guttentag2052
7British Ministry of Information1151
8Spike Lee1051
9Freida Lee Mock1151
10United States Army Air Force2050
11Tom Daly1050
12Arthur Cohn4343
13Larry Lansburgh1142
14Thomas Lennon1041
15Marshall Curry2041
16Julia Reichert3141
17Steven Okazaki1041
18Kirk Simon1041
19Signe Byrge Sørensen3040
20Joslyn Barnes2040
21Jacques-Yves Cousteau2233
22United States Navy1133
23Louis Clyde Stoumen2132
24Ben Sharpsteen1132
25Malcolm Clarke1032
26Robert Epstein2232
27Laura Poitras3131
28Bert Haanstra2031
29Joanna Natasegara2031
30Shane Boris3131
31United States Army1031
32Wim Wenders3030
33James Carr1030
34Monica Hellström2030
35Deborah Dickson2030
36Walter F. Parkes1030
37Guy Glover1030
38United States Army Pictorial Service1030
39Vince DiPersio2030
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42Rabbi Marvin Hier2222
43Simon Chinn2222
44Sarah Kernochan1122
45Murray Lerner2121
46Paul de Roubaix1021
47Allan Miller1021
48Charles Ferguson2121
49Audrey Marrs2121
50Crown Film Unit1121
51United States Department of War Special Service Division1021
52John Korty1121
53Sean Fine1021
54Walon Green1121
55Andrea Nix Fine1021
56Alan Raymond2121
57Susan Raymond2121
58Robert Snyder2121
59Marcel Ophuls2121
60Orville O. Dull1121
61Alex Gibney2121
62Michael Moore2121
63Albert Lamorisse1021
64Orlando von Einsiedel1021
65Kieth Merrill1121
66Irwin Allen1121
67Bill Couturié1121
68Roger Ross Williams1021
69Steven Bognar1121
70Julie Goldman2020
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72Jon Else1020
73Rebecca Cammisa1020
74Irwin Rosten2020
75Trish Adlesic1020
76Ken Burns2020
77Bengt von zur Muehlen2020
78Bill Jersey2020
79Jack Le Vien2020
80Marshall Flaum2020
81Eric Nyari1020
82Al Reinert1020
83Rick Goldsmith2020
84Marvin Worth1020
85Gail Dolgin1020
86David Bradbury2020
87Rémi Grellety2020
88James Klein2020
89Janice Loeb1020
90Frances Reid1020
91Jacques Perrin1020
92Barry Alexander Brown1020
93RaMell Ross1020
94Glenn Silber2020
95Alex Grasshoff2020
96Steve James1020
97Andrew Jarecki2020
98Lawrence Hott1020
99Nathaniel Kahn1020
100Susan R. Behr1020
101Lucy Walker1020
102Feras Fayyad2020
103Geeta Gandbhir1020
104Deborah Hoffmann2020
105Kirby Dick2020
106Charlotte De La Gournerie1020
107Jonas Poher Rasmussen1020
108Tony Ianzelo1020
109Howard Gertler2020
110Joshua Oppenheimer2020
111Kellen Quinn2020
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115Liz Garbus2020
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166Jon Blair1111
167Ira Wohl1111
168Dan Cogan1111
169Bryan Fogel1111
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172David Sonenberg1111
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176Jimmy Chin1111
177Evan Hayes1111
178Richard Trank1111
179Arnold Schwartzman1111
180Bernard Chevry1111
181Jeff Reichert1111
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183James Moll1111
184James Reed1111
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186Craig Foster1111
187John Zaritsky1111
188Kevin Macdonald1111
189Bob Maurice1111
190Joseph Patel1111
191David Dinerstein1111
192Robert Fyvolent1111
193Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson1111
194Nancy Hamilton1111
195Deborah Oppenheimer1111
196Emile Ardolino1111
197Melanie Miller1111
198Odessa Rae1111
199Daniel Roher1111
200Diane Becker1111
201Jean-Xavier de Lestrade1111
202Denis Poncet1111
203Howard Smith1111
204Basel Adra1111
205Rachel Szor1111
206Hamdan Ballal1111
207Yuval Abraham1111
208Richard Schmiechen1111
209Michael Donovan1111
210Jerome Hill1111
211Michael Williams1111
212Errol Morris1111
213Helle Faber1111
214Alžběta Karásková1111
215David Borenstein1111
216Pavel Talankin1111
217The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America1111
218Maria Florio1111
219Victoria Mudd1111
220Zana Briski1111
221Eddie Schmidt1010
222Hubert Sauper1010
223Jason Kliot1010
224Dana Adam Shapiro1010
225Henry-Alex Rubin1010
226Frank Donner1010
227Amy Berg1010
228John Sinno1010
229Rachel Grady1010
230Heidi Ewing1010
231Jocelyn Glatzer1010
232Richard E. Robbins1010
233Meghan O'Hara1010
234Thavisouk Phrasavath1010
235Ellen Kuras1010
236Werner Herzog1010
237Henry Kaiser1010
238Scott Hamilton Kennedy1010
239Carl Deal1010
240Tia Lessin1010
241Anders Østergaard1010
242Lise Lense-Møller1010
243Robert Kenner1010
244Elise Pearlstein1010
245Judith Ehrlich1010
246Jaimie D'Cruz1010
247Banksy1010
248Josh Fox1010
249Sebastian Junger1010
250Tim Hetherington1010
251Angus Aynsley1010
252Danfung Dennis1010
253Mike Lerner1010
254Sam Cullman1010
255Joe Berlinger1010
256Bruce Sinofsky1010
257Gian-Piero Ringel1010
258Guy Davidi1010
259Emad Burnat1010
260Philippa Kowarsky1010
261Estelle Fialon1010
262Dror Moreh1010
263David France1010
264Amy Ziering1010
265Lydia Dean Pilcher1010
266Zachary Heinzerling1010
267Jeremy Scahill1010
268Richard Rowley1010
269Karim Amer1010
270Jehane Noujaim1010
271Charlie Siskel1010
272John Maloof1010
273Keven McAlester1010
274Rory Kennedy1010
275David Rosier1010
276Juliano Ribeiro Salgado1010
277Matthew Heineman1010
278Tom Yellin1010
279Justin Wilkes1010
280Amy Hobby1010
281Evgeny Afineevsky1010
282Den Tolmor1010
283Gianfranco Rosi1010
284Donatella Palermo1010
285Hébert Peck1010
286Raoul Peck1010
287Spencer Averick1010
288Ava DuVernay1010
289Howard Barish1010
290Mark Mitten1010
291JR1010
292Agnès Varda1010
293Rosalie Varda1010
294Søren Steen Jespersen1010
295Kareem Abeed1010
296Yance Ford1010
297Su Kim1010
298Bing Liu1010
299Diane Quon1010
300Tobias N. Siebert1010
301Eva Kemme1010
302Talal Derki1010
303Ansgar Frerich1010
304Julie Cohen1010
305Betsy West1010
306Kirstine Barfod1010
307Sigrid Dyekjær1010
308Tiago Pavan1010
309Petra Costa1010
310Waad al-Kateab1010
311Edward Watts1010
312Tamara Kotevska1010
313Atanas Georgiev1010
314Ljubo Stefanov1010
315Alexander Nanau1010
316Bianca Oana1010
317Jim LeBrecht1010
318Nicole Newnham1010
319Sara Bolder1010
320Marcela Santibáñez1010
321Garrett Bradley1010
322Lauren Domino1010
323Nathan Truesdell1010
324Kira Simon-Kennedy1010
325Jessica Kingdon1010
326Stanley Nelson1010
327Traci A. Curry1010
328Rintu Thomas1010
329Sushmit Ghosh1010
330Aman Mann1010
331Shaunak Sen1010
332Teddy Leifer1010
333Nan Goldin1010
334John Lyons1010
335Yoni Golijov1010
336Ina Fichman1010
337Sara Dosa1010
338Simon Lereng Wilmont1010
339Hanna Aqvilin1010
340Shiori Ito1010
341Brendan Bellomo1010
342Paula DuPre' Pesmen1010
343Slava Leontyev1010
344Aniela Sidorska1010
345Johan Grimonprez1010
346Daan Milius1010
347Julian Brave NoiseCat1010
348Emily Kassie1010
349Charlotte Kaufman1010
350Jessica Hargrave1010
351Ryan White1010
352Stef Willen1010
353Tig Notaro1010
354Mohammadreza Eyni1010
355Sara Khaki1010
356Nikon Kwantu1010
357Sam Bisbee1010
358Alisa Payne1010
359Christopher Sharp1010
360John Battsek1010
361Moses Bwayo1010
362Kaouther Ben Hania1010
363Nadim Cheikhrouha1010
364Cornelia Principe1010
365David Oppenheim1010
366Nisha Pahuja1010
367United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau1010
368United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange1010
369Paul Rotha1010
370Paul F. Heard1010
371Jack Arnold1010
372Lee Goodman1010
373Bryan Foy1010
374Hall Bartlett1010
375Grahame Tharp1010
376John Taylor1010
377Leon Clore1010
378Castleton Knight1010
379Rene Risacher1010
380The Government Film Committee of Denmark1010
381Lionel Rogosin1010
382Manuel Barbachano Ponce1010
383Nathan Zucker1010
384David L. Wolper1010
385Robert D. Fraser1010
386dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade1010
387Hugo Niebeling1010
388Mel Stuart1010
389Jean Aurel1010
390Laurence E. Mascott1010
391Peter Mills1010
392Frédéric Rossif1010
393Alfred R. Kelman1010
394Peter Jones1010
395Haroun Tazieff1010
396Carroll Ballard1010
397James Blue1010
398William Cayton1010
399David H. Sawyer1010
400Robert K. Sharpe1010
401Emile de Antonio1010
402Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada1010
403Dr. Harald Reinl1010
404Jim Jacobs1010
405Ely Landau1010
406David H. Vowell1010
407Alan Landsburg1010
408Bruce Brown1010
409Lennart Ehrenborg1010
410Thor Heyerdahl1010
411Arnold Perl1010
412Robert Hendrickson1010
413Laurence Merrick1010
414Eckehard Munck1010
415John D. Goodell1010
416Gertrude Ross Marks1010
417Edmund F. Penney1010
418Judy Collins1010
419Jill Godmilow1010
420Herbert Kline1010
421Haim Gouri1010
422David Bergman1010
423Jacquot Ehrlich1010
424Eugene S. Jones1010
425Natalie R. Jones1010
426Keith F. Critchlow1010
427Glen Pearcy1010
428David Helpern Jr.1010
429James Gutman1010
430Michael Firth1010
431David Koff1010
432Anthony Howarth1010
433Robert Duncan1010
434Donald Brittain1010
435Robert Dornhelm1010
436Earle Mack1010
437Bill Brind1010
438Torben Schioler1010
439Harry Rasky1010
440Miles Mogulescu1010
441Alan Root1010
442Barry Williams1010
443Jean-Pierre Dutilleux1010
444Michel Gast1010
445Lorraine Gray1010
446Anne Bohlen1010
447Lyn Goldfarb1010
448David A. Vassar1010
449Jacques Bobet1010
450Paul Cowan1010
451Tom Priestley1010
452Steve Singer1010
453Ross Spears1010
454Jim Burroughs1010
455Suzanne Bauman1010
456Paul Neshamkin1010
457Mary Benjamin1010
458Boyd Estus1010
459Tete Vasconcellos1010
460Sturla Gunnarsson1010
461Steve Lucas1010
462John Karol1010
463Michel Chalufour1010
464Meg Switzgable1010
465Joseph Wishy1010
466Ara Chekmayan1010
467Richard Kotuk1010
468Robin Anderson1010
469Bob Connolly1010
470Michael Bryans1010
471Tina Viljoen1010
472Nancy Sloss1010
473Frank Christopher1010
474Alex W. Drehsler1010
475Karel Dirka1010
476Zev Braun1010
477Cheryl McCall1010
478Lourdes Portillo1010
479Susana Muñoz1010
480Japhet Asher1010
481Buddy Squires1010
482Amram Nowak1010
483Sharon I. Sopher1010
484James A. DeVinney1010
485Callie Crossley1010
486John W. Dower1010
487John Junkerman1010
488Robert Stone1010
489Barbara Herbich1010
490Cyril Christo1010
491Ronald Mix1010
492Robert Bilheimer1010
493Nan Bush1010
494Bruce Weber1010
495Ginny Durrin1010
496Renee Tajima1010
497Christine Choy1010
498Richard Kilberg1010
499Yvonne Smith1010
500Betsy Broyles Breier1010
501Judith Leonard1010
502Mark Kitchell1010
503Mark Mori1010
504Susan Robinson1010
505Judith Montell1010
506Robert Hillmann1010
507Eugene Corr1010
508Hava Kohav Beller1010
509Diane Garey1010
510David Haugland1010
511Sally Dundas1010
512William Miles1010
513Nina Rosenblum1010
514Roma Baran1010
515Margaret Smilow1010
516David Paperny1010
517Arthur Ginsberg1010
518Andrew Young1010
519Susan Todd1010
520Betsy Thompson1010
521David Collier1010
522D.A. Pennebaker1010
523Chris Hegedus1010
524Connie Field1010
525Marilyn Mulford1010
526Jean Bach1010
527Michael Epstein1010
528Walter Scheuer1010
529Fredric Golding1010
530Mike Tollin1010
531Steven Ascher1010
532Jeanne Jordan1010
533Susan W. Dryfoos1010
534Jo Menell1010
535Angus Gibson1010
536Anne Belle1010
537Michael Paxton1010
538Michèle Ohayon1010
539Julia Schachter1010
540Sam Pollard1010
541Dan Gifford1010
542William Gazecki1010
543Matthew Diamond1010
544Jerry Kupfer1010
545Robert B. Weide1010
546Janet Cole1010
547Barbara Sonneborn1010
548Ulrich Felsberg1010
549Roko Belic1010
550Adrian Belic1010
551Nanette Burstein1010
552Brett Morgen1010
553Paola di Florio1010
554Lilibet Foster1010
555Tod Lending1010
556Barak Goodman1010
557Daniel Anker1010
558Josh Aronson1010
559Edet Belzberg1010
560Susan Froemke1010
561B.Z. Goldberg1010
562Justine Shapiro1010
563Christian Frei1010
564Vicente Franco1010
565Stuart Sender1010
566Jeffrey Blitz1010
567Sean Welch1010
568Josep Maria Domenech1010
569Carlos Bosch1010
570Marc Smerling1010
571Bill Siegel1010
572Sam Green1010
573Luigi Falorni1010
574Byambasuren Davaa1010
575Morgan Spurlock1010
576Karolyn Ali1010
577Lauren Lazin1010
578Robert Cohn0000
Known as
Best Documentary Feature Film
2022-present
Best Documentary (Feature)
1947-2021
Best Documentary (Feature)
1943-1945