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2019 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

American Factory
2018 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Shirkers
2017 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Faces Places
2016 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

I Am Not Your Negro
2015 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Amy
Asif Kapadia
2014 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Citizenfour
Laura Poitras
2013 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley
2012 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Gatekeepers
Dror Moreh
2011 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Last Train Home
Lixin Fan
2009 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Beaches of Agnès
Agnès Varda
2009 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Cove
Louie Psihoyos
2008 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Man on Wire
James Marsh
2007 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson
2006 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

An Inconvenient Truth
Davis Guggenheim
2005 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog
2004 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Zana Briski
2003 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Errol Morris
2002 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Cockettes
David Weissman
2001 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Gleaners & I
Agnès Varda
2000 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Dark Days
Marc Singer
1999 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Buena Vista Social Club
Wim Wenders
1998 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Farm: Angola, USA
Jonathan Stack
1997 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Riding the Rails
Lexy Lovell
1996 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

When We Were Kings
Leon Gast
1995 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Crumb
Terry Zwigoff
1994 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Hoop Dreams
Steve James
1993 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

It’s All True
Orson Welles
1992 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Black Harvest
Bob Connolly
1992 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Threat
Stefan Jarl
1991 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

American Dream
Barbara Kopple
1990 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Paris Is Burning
Jennie Livingston
1990 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Pictures of the Old World
Dusan Hanák
1989 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Roger & Me
Michael Moore
1988 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
