Thursday, December 12

Oscars – Documentary (Feature)

Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!

2020 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

American Factory Steven Bognar

American Factory

Steven Bognar

2019 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Free Solo

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

2018 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Icarus Bryan Fogel

Icarus

Bryan Fogel

2017 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman

O.J.: Made in America

Ezra Edelman

2016 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Amy Asif Kapadia

Amy

Asif Kapadia

2015 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Citizenfour Laura Poitras

Citizenfour

Laura Poitras

2014 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

20 Feet from Stardom Morgan Neville

20 Feet from Stardom

Morgan Neville

2013 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul

Searching for Sugar Man

Malik Bendjelloul

2012 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Undefeated Daniel Lindsay

Undefeated

Daniel Lindsay

2011 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Inside Job Charles Ferguson

Inside Job

Charles Ferguson

2010 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Cove Louie Psihoyos

The Cove

Louie Psihoyos

2009 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Man on Wire James Marsh

Man on Wire

James Marsh

2008 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Taxi to the Dark Side Alex Gibney

Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney

2007 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

An Inconvenient Truth Davis Guggenheim

An Inconvenient Truth

Davis Guggenheim

2006 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

March of the Penguins Luc Jacquet

March of the Penguins

Luc Jacquet

2005 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids Ross Kauffman

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids

Ross Kauffman

2004 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara Errol Morris

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Errol Morris

2003 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore

Bowling for Columbine

Michael Moore

2002 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Murder on a Sunday Morning Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

Murder on a Sunday Morning

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

2001 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Mark Jonathan Harris

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Mark Jonathan Harris

2000 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

One Day in September Arthur Cohn

One Day in September

Arthur Cohn

1999 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Last Days James Moll

The Last Days

James Moll

1998 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Long Way Home Marvin Hier

The Long Way Home

Marvin Hier

1997 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

When We Were Kings Leon Gast

When We Were Kings

Leon Gast

1996 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Anne Frank Remembered Jon Blair

Anne Frank Remembered

Jon Blair

1995 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision Freida Lee Mock

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

Freida Lee Mock

1994 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School Susan Raymond

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

Susan Raymond

1993 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Panama Deception Barbara Trent

The Panama Deception

Barbara Trent

1992 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

In the Shadow of the Stars Allie Light

In the Shadow of the Stars

Allie Light

1991 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

American Dream Barbara Kopple

American Dream

Barbara Kopple

1990 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Rob Epstein

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Rob Epstein

1989 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Hôtel Terminus Marcel Ophüls

Hôtel Terminus

Marcel Ophüls

1988 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table Aviva Slesin

The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

Aviva Slesin

1987 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got Brigitte Berman

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got

Brigitte Berman

1987 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Down and Out in America Joseph Feury

Down and Out in America

Joseph Feury

1986 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Broken Rainbow Maria Florio

Broken Rainbow

Maria Florio

1985 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Times of Harvey Milk Rob Epstein

The Times of Harvey Milk

Rob Epstein

1984 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' Emile Ardolino

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’

Emile Ardolino

1983 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Fifth Estate John Zaritsky

The Fifth Estate

John Zaritsky

1982 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Genocide Arnold Schwartzman

Genocide

Arnold Schwartzman

1981 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China Murray Lerner

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

Murray Lerner

1980 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Best Boy Ira Wohl

Best Boy

Ira Wohl

1979 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Scared Straight! Arnold Shapiro

Scared Straight!

Arnold Shapiro

1978 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?] John Korty

Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?]

John Korty

1977 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Harlan County U.S.A. Barbara Kopple

Harlan County U.S.A.

Barbara Kopple

1976 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Man Who Skied Down Everest F.R. Crawley

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

F.R. Crawley

1975 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Hearts and Minds Peter Davis

Hearts and Minds

Peter Davis

1974 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Great American Cowboy Kieth Merrill

The Great American Cowboy

Kieth Merrill

1973 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Marjoe Howard Smith

Marjoe

Howard Smith

1972 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Hellstrom Chronicle Walon Green

The Hellstrom Chronicle

Walon Green

1971 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Woodstock Bob Maurice

Woodstock

Bob Maurice

1970 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Love of Life Bernard Chevry

Love of Life

Bernard Chevry

1969 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Journey Into Self Bill McGaw

Journey Into Self

Bill McGaw

1968 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Anderson Platoon Pierre Schoendoerffer

The Anderson Platoon

Pierre Schoendoerffer

1967 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The War Game Peter Watkins

The War Game

Peter Watkins

1966 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story Sidney Glazier

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

Sidney Glazier

1965 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

World Without Sun Jacques-Yves Cousteau

World Without Sun

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1964 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World Robert Hughes

Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World

Robert Hughes

1963 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler Louis Clyde Stoumen

Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler

Louis Clyde Stoumen

1962 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Le ciel et la boue Arthur Cohn

Le ciel et la boue

Arthur Cohn

1961 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Horse with the Flying Tail Larry Lansburgh

The Horse with the Flying Tail

Larry Lansburgh

1960 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Serengeti Bernhard Grzimek

Serengeti

Bernhard Grzimek

1959 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

White Wilderness Ben Sharpsteen

White Wilderness

Ben Sharpsteen

1958 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Albert Schweitzer Jerome Hill

Albert Schweitzer

Jerome Hill

1957 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Silent World Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The Silent World

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1956 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Unconquered Nancy Hamilton

The Unconquered

Nancy Hamilton

1955 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Vanishing Prairie Walt Disney

The Vanishing Prairie

Walt Disney

1954 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Living Desert Walt Disney

The Living Desert

Walt Disney

1953 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Sea Around Us Irwin Allen

The Sea Around Us

Irwin Allen

1952 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Kon-Tiki Olle Nordemar

Kon-Tiki

Olle Nordemar

1951 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo Robert Snyder

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

Robert Snyder

1950 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Daybreak in Udi null

Daybreak in Udi

null

1949 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Secret Land Orville O. Dull

The Secret Land

Orville O. Dull

1948 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Design for Death Sid Rogell

Design for Death

Sid Rogell

1946 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The True Glory null

The True Glory

null

1945 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Fighting Lady null

The Fighting Lady

null

1944 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Desert Victory null

Desert Victory

null

1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Kokoda Front Line! null

Kokoda Front Line!

null

1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Moscow Strikes Back null

Moscow Strikes Back

null

1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Prelude to War null

Prelude to War

null

1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

The Battle of Midway null

The Battle of Midway

null

1942 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)

Churchill's Island null

Churchill’s Island

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