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2020 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
American Factory
Steven Bognar
2019 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Free Solo
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
2018 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Icarus
Bryan Fogel
2017 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
O.J.: Made in America
Ezra Edelman
2016 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Amy
Asif Kapadia
2015 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras
2014 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
20 Feet from Stardom
Morgan Neville
2013 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Searching for Sugar Man
Malik Bendjelloul
2012 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Undefeated
Daniel Lindsay
2011 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Inside Job
Charles Ferguson
2010 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Cove
Louie Psihoyos
2009 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Man on Wire
James Marsh
2008 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Taxi to the Dark Side
Alex Gibney
2007 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
An Inconvenient Truth
Davis Guggenheim
2006 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
March of the Penguins
Luc Jacquet
2005 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Ross Kauffman
2004 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Errol Morris
2003 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Bowling for Columbine
Michael Moore
2002 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
2001 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Mark Jonathan Harris
2000 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
One Day in September
Arthur Cohn
1999 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Last Days
James Moll
1998 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Long Way Home
Marvin Hier
1997 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
When We Were Kings
Leon Gast
1996 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Anne Frank Remembered
Jon Blair
1995 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Freida Lee Mock
1994 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
Susan Raymond
1993 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Panama Deception
Barbara Trent
1992 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
In the Shadow of the Stars
Allie Light
1991 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
American Dream
Barbara Kopple
1990 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Rob Epstein
1989 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Hôtel Terminus
Marcel Ophüls
1988 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Aviva Slesin
1987 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got
Brigitte Berman
1987 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Down and Out in America
Joseph Feury
1986 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Broken Rainbow
Maria Florio
1985 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Times of Harvey Milk
Rob Epstein
1984 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’
Emile Ardolino
1983 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Fifth Estate
John Zaritsky
1982 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Genocide
Arnold Schwartzman
1981 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
Murray Lerner
1980 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Best Boy
Ira Wohl
1979 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Scared Straight!
Arnold Shapiro
1978 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
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Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?]
John Korty
1977 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Harlan County U.S.A.
Barbara Kopple
1976 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
F.R. Crawley
1975 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Hearts and Minds
Peter Davis
1974 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Great American Cowboy
Kieth Merrill
1973 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Marjoe
Howard Smith
1972 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Walon Green
1971 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Woodstock
Bob Maurice
1970 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Love of Life
Bernard Chevry
1969 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Journey Into Self
Bill McGaw
1968 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Anderson Platoon
Pierre Schoendoerffer
1967 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The War Game
Peter Watkins
1966 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Sidney Glazier
1965 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
World Without Sun
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1964 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
Robert Hughes
1963 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler
Louis Clyde Stoumen
1962 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Le ciel et la boue
Arthur Cohn
1961 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Horse with the Flying Tail
Larry Lansburgh
1960 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Serengeti
Bernhard Grzimek
1959 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
White Wilderness
Ben Sharpsteen
1958 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Albert Schweitzer
Jerome Hill
1957 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Silent World
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1956 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Unconquered
Nancy Hamilton
1955 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Vanishing Prairie
Walt Disney
1954 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Living Desert
Walt Disney
1953 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Sea Around Us
Irwin Allen
1952 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Kon-Tiki
Olle Nordemar
1951 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Robert Snyder
1950 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Daybreak in Udi
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1949 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Secret Land
Orville O. Dull
1948 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Design for Death
Sid Rogell
1946 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The True Glory
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1945 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Fighting Lady
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1944 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Desert Victory
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1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Kokoda Front Line!
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1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Moscow Strikes Back
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1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
Prelude to War
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1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
The Battle of Midway
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1942 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)