Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
American Factory
Julia Reichert
2018 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross
2017 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Strong Island
Yance Ford
2016 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
O.J.: Made in America
Ezra Edelman
2015 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer
2014 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras
2013 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer
2012 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
How to Survive a Plague
David France
2011 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Better This World
Katie Galloway
2010 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
The Oath
Laura Poitras
2009 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner
2008 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin
2007 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Sicko
Michael Moore
2006 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Iraq in Fragments
James Longley
2005 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
Murderball
Henry Alex Rubin
2004 Gotham Independent Film Award – Best Documentary
