Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Crip Camp
James Lebrecht
2019 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Knock Down the House
Rachel Lears
2018 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
The Sentence
Rudy Valdez
2017 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Chasing Coral
Jeff Orlowski
2016 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Jim: The James Foley Story
Brian Oakes
2015 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Meru
Jimmy Chin
2014 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Alive Inside
Michael Rossato-Bennett
2013 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Blood Brother
Steve Hoover
2012 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
The Invisible War
Kirby Dick
2011 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Buck
Cindy Meehl
2010 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Waiting for ‘Superman’
Davis Guggenheim
2009 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
The Cove
Louie Psihoyos
2008 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Fields of Fuel
Joshua Tickell
2007 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Hear and Now
Irene Taylor Brodsky
2006 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
God Grew Tired of Us
Christopher Dillon Quinn
2005 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Murderball
Henry Alex Rubin
2004 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Ross Kauffman
2003 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
My Flesh and Blood
Jonathan Karsh
2002 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
Lee Hirsch
2001 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Stacy Peralta
2001 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Scout’s Honor
Tom Shepard
2000 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Dark Days
Marc Singer
1999 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Genghis Blues
Roko Belic
1998 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Out of the Past
Jeff Dupre
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End
Monte Bramer
1996 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
Steven Ascher
1995 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Ballot Measure 9
Heather MacDonald
1995 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Unzipped
Douglas Keeve
1994 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Hoop Dreams
Steve James
1993 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Something Within Me
Jerret Engle
1992 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Brother’s Keeper
Joe Berlinger
1991 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
American Dream
Barbara Kopple
1990 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
Berkeley in the Sixties
Mark Kitchell
1989 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Documentary
