Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Jaddoland
Nadia Shihab
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Minding the Gap
Bing Liu
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Quest
Jonathan Olshefski
2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Hooligan Sparrow
Nanfu Wang
2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Incorruptible
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
The Kill Team
Dan Krauss
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Let the Fire Burn
Jason Osder
2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
The Waiting Room
Peter Nicks
2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Where Soldiers Come From
Heather Courtney
2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Marwencol
Jeff Malmberg
2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
45365
Bill Ross IV
2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
The Order of Myths
Margaret Brown
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
The Unforeseen
Laura Dunn
2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
P.O.V.
Adele Horne
2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Occupation: Dreamland
Garrett Scott
2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Zana Briski
2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Lost Boys of Sudan
Megan Mylan
2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Love and Diane
Jennifer Dworkin
2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Hybrid
Monteith McCollum
2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
David Shapiro
2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
Owsley Brown
1999 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Regret to Inform
Barbara Sonneborn
1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Errol Morris
1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
Soul in the Hole
Danielle Gardner
1997 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Truer Than Fiction Award
