DGA Awards

2020 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerAmerican FactorySteven BognarEnd 2008, GM closes a plant in Ohio. A Chinese billionaire/Fuyao Glass buys the plant 2014 and invests in auto glass production. There are 2000 jobs there by late 2016. USA meets PRChina.Amazon2020 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesHoneylandLjubomir StefanovAmazonMaidenAlex HolmesAmazonOne Child NationNanfu WangAmazonThe CaveFeras FayyadAmazon

2019 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerThree Identical StrangersTim WardleIn 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.Amazon2019 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesFree SoloJimmy ChinAmazonHale County This Morning, This EveningRaMell RossAmazonRBGBetsy WestAmazonWon't You Be My Neighbor?Morgan NevilleAmazon

2018 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerCity of GhostsMatthew HeinemanA documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. ...Amazon2018 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesAbacus: Small Enough to JailSteve JamesAmazonIcarusBryan FogelAmazonThe Vietnam WarKen BurnsAmazonWormwoodErrol MorrisAmazon

2017 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerO.J.: Made in AmericaEzra EdelmanA chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.Amazon2017 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesI Am Not Your NegroRaoul PeckAmazonLife, AnimatedRoger Ross WilliamsAmazonThe Eagle HuntressOtto BellAmazonWeinerJosh KriegmanAmazon

2016 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerCartel LandMatthew HeinemanFilmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.Amazon2016 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesAmyAsif KapadiaAmazonGoing Clear: Scientology & the Prison of BeliefAlex GibneyAmazonMeruJimmy ChinAmazonWhat Happened, Miss Simone?Liz GarbusAmazon

2015 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerCitizenfourLaura PoitrasA documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.Amazon2015 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesFinding Vivian MaierJohn MaloofAmazonThe Kill TeamDan KraussAmazonThe OvernightersJesse MossAmazonVirungaOrlando von EinsiedelAmazon

2014 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerThe SquareJehane NoujaimA group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.Amazon2014 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesCutie and the BoxerZachary HeinzerlingAmazonStories We TellSarah PolleyAmazonThe Act of KillingJoshua OppenheimerAmazonThe Crash ReelLucy WalkerAmazon

2013 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerSearching for Sugar ManMalik BendjelloulTwo South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.Amazon2013 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesAi Weiwei: Never SorryAlison KlaymanAmazonHow to Survive a PlagueDavid FranceAmazonThe Invisible WarKirby DickAmazonThe Queen of VersaillesLauren GreenfieldAmazon

2012 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerProject NimJames MarshTells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.Amazon2012 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesBill Cunningham: New YorkRichard PressAmazonGeorge Harrison: Living in the Material WorldMartin ScorseseAmazonParadise Lost 3: PurgatoryJoe BerlingerAmazonThe InterruptersSteve JamesAmazon

2011 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary WinnerInside JobCharles FergusonTakes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.Amazon2011 DGA Awards - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary NomineesClient 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot SpitzerAlex GibneyAmazonLast Train HomeLixin FanAmazonRestrepoTim HetheringtonAmazonWaiting for 'Superman'Davis GuggenheimAmazon