Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Time
Garrett Bradley
2019 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
American Factory
Steven Bognar
2018 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
On Her Shoulders
Alexandria Bombach
2017 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
The Force
Peter Nicks
2016 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Life, Animated
Roger Ross Williams
2015 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Cartel Land
Matthew Heineman
2014 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
The Case Against 8
Ben Cotner
2013 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Cutie and the Boxer
Zachary Heinzerling
2012 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
The Queen of Versailles
Lauren Greenfield
2011 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Jon Foy
2010 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Smash His Camera
Leon Gast
2009 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
The General
Natalia Almada
2008 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
American Teen
Nanette Burstein
2007 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
War Dance
Sean Fine
2006 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Iraq in Fragments
James Longley
2005 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Jeff Feuerzeig
2004 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Super Size Me
Morgan Spurlock
2003 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
My Flesh and Blood
Jonathan Karsh
2002 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Sister Helen
Rob Fruchtman
2001 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Stacy Peralta
2000 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Paragraph 175
Rob Epstein
1999 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Regret to Inform
Barbara Sonneborn
1998 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
Moment of Impact
Julia Loktev
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Documentary
