Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
American Factory
Steven Bognar
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Morgan Neville
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Faces Places
Agns Varda
2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
O.J.: Made in America
Ezra Edelman
2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer
2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
20 Feet from Stardom
Morgan Neville
2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
The Invisible War
Kirby Dick
2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
The Interrupters
Steve James
2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Banksy
2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Sacha Gervasi
2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Man on Wire
James Marsh
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Crazy Love
Dan Klores
2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
The Road to Guantanamo
Michael Winterbottom
2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Alex Gibney
2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Joe Berlinger
2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Errol Morris
2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Bowling for Columbine
Michael Moore
2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Stacy Peralta
2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary
