# En İyi Belgesel Film Akademi Ödülü
Aşağıdaki listede filmler Akademi ödülleri kuralları takip edilerek ödül aldıkları yıllara göre sıralanmıştır (Akademi kurallarına göre şeçilebilir oldukları yıla göre). Uygulamada ise belgesel filmlerinin dağıtımındaki sıkıntılar sebebi ile bazen üretim yılından sonraki yıllar olmak üzere farklı yerlerde farklı yıllarda yayımlanabilmektedir.


## 1940'lar.
1942'de bir Belgesel kategorisi ve 4 kazanan bulunmaktadır.
  - 1942
   - "The Battle of Midway"
   - "Kokoda Front Line!"
   - "Moscow Strikes Back"
   - "Prelude to War"
1943'te Belgesel kategorisi En İyi Belgesel Film ve En İyi Kısa Belgesel Fim olmak üzere ikiye ayrılmıştır.
  - 1943 - Desert Victory
   - "Baptism of Fire"
   - "The Battle of Russia"
   - "Report from the Aleutians"
   - "War Department Report"
  - 1944 - The Fighting Lady
   - "Resisting Enemy Interrogation"
  - 1945 - The True Glory
   - "The Last Bomb"
  - 1946 - Verilmedi
  - 1947 - Design for Death
   - "Journey Into Medicine"
   - "The World Is Rich"
  - 1948 - The Secret Land
   - "The Quiet One"
  - 1949 - Daybreak in Udi
   - "Kenji Comes Home"


## 1950'ler.
  - 1950 - 
   - "With These Hands"
  - 1951 - Kon-Tiki
   - "I Was a Communist for the FBI"
  - 1952 - The Sea Around Us
   - "The Hoaxters"
   - "Navajo"
  - 1953 - The Living Desert
   - "The Conquest of Everest"
   - "A Queen Is Crowned"
  - 1954 - The Vanishing Prairie
   - "The Stratford Adventure"
  - 1955 - Helen Keller in Her Story ("The Unconquered" olarak da bilinir)
   - "Crèvecoeur"
  - 1956 - The Silent World
   - "Where Mountains Float" ()
   - "The Naked Eye"
  - 1957 - Albert Schweitzer
   - "On the Bowery"
   - "Torero"
  - 1958 - White Wilderness
   - "Antarctic Crossing"
   - "The Hidden World"
   - "Psychiatric Nursing"
  - 1959 - Serengeti Shall Not Die
   - "The Race for Space"


## 1960'lar.
  - 1960 - The Horse with the Flying Tail
   - "Rebel in Paradise"
  - 1961 - Sky Above and Mud Beneath – Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
   - "La grande olimpiade" – Romolo Marcellini
  - 1962 - 
   - "Alvorada"
  - 1963 - 
   - "Le Maillon et la chaîne"
   - "The Yanks Are Coming"
  - 1964 - Le Monde sans soleil
   - "14-18"
   - "Alleman"
   - "The Finest Hours"
   - "Four Days in November"
  - 1965 - The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
   - "The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles"
   - "The Forth Road Bridge"
   - "Mourir à Madrid"
  - 1966 - The War Game
   - "The Face of a Genius"
   - "Helicopter Canada"
   - "The Really Big Family"
   - "Le Volcan interdit"
  - 1967 - The Anderson Platoon
   - "Festival"
   - "Harvest"
   - "A King's Story"
   - "A Time for Burning"
  - 1968 - Journey into Self Not: 14 Nisan 1969'daki ödül töreninde " Young Americans" filmi bu kategorideki kazanan olarak açıklanmasına karşın 7 Mayıs 1969'da filmin Ekim 1967'de gösterildiğinin ortaya çıkması üzerine 1968 yılı ödülleri için seçilemiyeçeği açıklanmıştır. 8 Mayıs 1969'da ikinciliği kazanan aday "Journey Into Self" bu kategorideki kazanan olarak ilan edilmiştir.
   - "A Few Notes on Our Food Problem"
   - "Legendary Champions"
   - "Other Voices"
  - 1969 - L'amour de la vie - Artur Rubinstein
   - "Before the Mountain Was Moved"
   - "In the Year of the Pig"
   - "Olimpiada en México"
   - "The Wolf Men"


## 1970'ler.
  - 1970 - Woodstock
   - "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft" (İngilizce adıyla "Chariots Of The Gods?")
   - "Jack Johnson"
   - "Say Goodbye"
  - 1971 - The Hellstrom Chronicle
   - "Alaska Wilderness Lake"
   - "Le chagrin et la pitié"
   - "On Any Sunday"
   - "Ra"
  - 1972 - Marjoe
   - "Bij de beesten af"
   - "Malcolm X"
   - "Manson"
   - "The Silent Revolution"
  - 1973 - The Great American Cowboy
   - "Always a New Beginning"
   - "Journey to the Outer Limits"
   - "Schlacht um Berlin"
   - "Walls of Fire"
  - 1974 - Hearts and Minds
   - "The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art"
   - "The 81st Blow"
   - "The Wild and the Brave"
  - 1975 - The Man Who Skied Down Everest
   - "The California Reich"
   - "Fighting for Our Lives"
   - "The Incredible Machine"
  - 1976 - Harlan County, USA
   - "Hollywood on Trial"
   - "Off the Edge"
   - "People of the Wind"
  - 1977 - Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
   - "The Children of Theatre Street"
   - "High Grass Circus"
   - "Union Maids"
  - 1978 - Scared Straight!
   - "Mysterious Castles of Clay"
   - "Raoni"
   - "Le vent des amoureux"
  - 1979 - Best Boy
   - "Generation on the Wind"
   - "Going the Distance"
   - "The Killing Ground"
   - "The War at Home"


## 1980'ler.
  - 1980 – Murray Lerner
   - "Agee"
   - "The Day After Trinity"
   - "Front Line"
   - "The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45"
  - 1981 Genocide – Arnold Schwartzman
   - "Brooklyn Bridge"
   - ""
  - 1982 Just Another Missing Kid – John Zaritsky
   - "A Portrait of Giselle"
   - "After the Axe"
   - "Ben's Mill"
   - "In Our Water"
  - 1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' – Emile Ardolino
   - "Children of Darkness"
   - "First Contact"
   - "The Profession of Arms"
   - "Seeing Red"
  - 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk – Robert Epstein ve Richard Schmiechen
   - "High Schools"
   - "In the Name of the People"
   - "Marlene"
   - "Streetwise"
  - 1985 Broken Rainbow – Maria Florio ve Victoria Mudd
   - "The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo"
   - "Soldiers in Hiding"
   - "The Statue of Liberty"
   - "Unfinished Business"
  - 1986 - (beraberlik): ve Down and Out in America
   - ""
   - "Witness to Apartheid"
  - 1987 The Ten-Year Lunch
   - "Eyes on the Prize"
   - "Radio Bikini"
   - "A Stitch for Time"
  - 1988 
   - "Let's Get Lost"
   - "Promises to Keep"
   - "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"
  - 1989 
   - "Adam Clayton Powell"
   - "For All Mankind"


## 1990'lar.
  - 1990 American Dream – Barbara Kopple"
   - "Berkeley in the Sixties"
   - "Building Bombs"
   - "Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade"
  - 1991 In the Shadow of the Stars – Allie Light ve Irving Saraf
   - "Death on the Job"
   - ""
   - "Wild by Law"
  - 1992 The Panama Deception – Barbara Trent ve David Kasper
   - "Fires of Kuwait"
   - ""
  - 1993 – Susan Raymond
   - "The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter"
   - "Children of Fate"
   - "For Better or For Worse"
   - "The War Room"
  - 1994 – Freida Lee Mock
   - "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter"
   - "D-Day Remembered"
   - "Freedom on My Mind"
   - "A Great Day in Harlem"
  - 1995 Anne Frank Remembered – Jon Blair
   - "The Battle Over Citizen Kane"
   - "Small Wonders"
  - 1996 When We Were Kings – Leon Gast
   - "Mandela"
   - ""
  - 1997 The Long Way Home – Mark Jonathan Harris
   - "Colors Straight Up"
   - "4 Little Girls"
  - 1998 The Last Days – James Moll
   - "The Dancemaker"
   - ""
   - "Regret to Inform"
  - 1999 One Day in September by Kevin MacDonald
   - "Buena Vista Social Club"
   - "Genghis Blues"
   - "On the Ropes"
   - "Speaking in Strings"


## 2000'ler.
"'2000: "" – Mark Jonathan Harris ve Deborah Oppenheimer
  - "Legacy" – Tod Lending
  - "Long Night's Journey into Day" – Deborah Hoffmann ve Frances Reid
  - "" – Daniel Anker ve Barak Goodman
  - "Sound and Fury" – Josh Aronson ve Roger Weisberg
"'2001: "Murder on a Sunday Morning (Un coupable idéal)" – Jean-Xavier de Lestrade ve Denis Poncet
  - "Children Underground" – Edet Belzberg
  - "" – Deborah Dickson ve Susan Frömke
  - "Promises" – B.Z. Goldberg ve Justine Shapiro
  - "War Photographer" – Christian Frei
"'2002: "Bowling for Columbine" – Michael Donovan ve Michael Moore
  - "Daughter from Danang" – Gail Dolgin ve Vicente Franco
  - "Prisoner of Paradise" – Malcolm Clarke ve Stuart Sender
  - "Spellbound" – Jeffrey Blitz ve Sean Welch
  - "Kanatlı Uygarlık" – Jacques Perrin
2003: "The Fog of War" – Errol Morris
  - "Balseros"
  - "Capturing the Friedmans"
  - "My Architect"
  - "The Weather Underground"
"'2004: "Born into Brothels" – Ross Kauffman ve Zana Briski
  - "The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel)" – Byambasuren Davaa ve Luigi Falorni
  - "Super Size Me" – Morgan Spurlock
  - "" – Karolyn Ali ve Lauren Lazin
  - "Twist of Faith" – Kirby Dick ve Eddie Schmidt
"'2005: "March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur)" – Luc Jacquet
  - "Darwin's Nightmare" – Hubert Sauper
  - "" – Alex Gibney ve Jason Kliot
  - "Murderball" – Henry Alex Rubin ve Dana Adam Shapiro
  - "Street Fight" – Marshall Curry
"'2006: "An Inconvenient Truth" – Davis Guggenheim
  - "Deliver Us from Evil" – Amy Berg ve Frank Donner
  - "Iraq in Fragments" – James Longley ve Yahya Sinno
  - "Jesus Camp" – Heidi Ewing ve Rachel Grady
  - "My Country, My Country" – Jocelyn Glatzer ve Laura Poitras
"'2007: "Taxi to the Dark Side" – Alex Gibney ve Eva Orner
  - "No End in Sight" – Charles Ferguson ve Audrey Marrs
  - "" – Richard Robbins
  - "Sicko" – Michael Moore ve Meghan O'Hara
  - "War/Dance" – Sean Fine ve Andrea Nix
"'2008: "Man on Wire" – Simon Chinn ve James Marsh
  - "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" – Ellen Kuras ve Thavisouk Phrasavath
  - "Encounters at the End of the World" – Werner Herzog ve Henry Kaiser
  - "The Garden" – Scott Hamilton Kennedy
  - "Trouble the Water" – Carl Deal ve Tia Lessin
2009: The Cove – Louie Psihoyos
  - "Burma VJ" – Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
  - "Food, Inc." – Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
  - "" – Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
  - "Which Way Home" – Rebecca Cammisa


## 2010'lar.
 - 2010: "Inside Job"  – Charles H. Ferguson ve Audrey Marrs
   - "Exit Through the Gift Shop" – Banksy ve Jaimie D'Cruz
   - "Gasland" – Josh Fox ve Trish Adlesic
   - "Restrepo" – Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
   - "Waste Land" – Lucy Walker ve Angus Aynsley
 - 2011: "Undefeated"  – TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay ve Richard Middlemas
   - "Hell and Back Again" – Danfung Dennis ve Mike Lerner
   - "" – Marshall Curry ve Sam Cullman
   - "" – Joe Berlinger ve Bruce Sinofsky
   - "Pina" – Wim Wenders ve Gian-Piero Ringel
 - 2012: "Searching for Sugar Man"  – Malik Bendjelloul ve Simon Chinn
   - "5 Broken Cameras" – Emad Burnat ve Guy Davidi
   - "The Gatekeepers" - Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky ve Estelle Fialon
   - "How to Survive a Plague" - David France ve Howard Gertler
   - "The Invisible War" - Kirby Dick ve Amy Ziering
 - 2013: "20 Feet from Stardom" - Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen ve Cveaitrin Rogers 
  - "The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer ve Signe Byre Sorenson"
  - Cutie and The Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling ve Kydia Dean Pilcher
  - Dirty Wars – Richard Rowley ve Jeremy Scahill
  - The Square – Jehane Nouaim ve Karim Amer
  - 2014 : Citizenfour - Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy ve Dirk Wilutzky
   - Finding Vivian Maier – John Mallof ve Charlie Siskel
   - Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy ve Kevin McAlester
   - The Salt of The Eart – Win Wnders, Julianı Ribeiro Salgado ve David Rosier
   - Virunga – Orlando Won Einsiedel ve Joanna Natasegara
  - 2015 Amy - Asif Kapadia ve James Gay Ress
   - Cartel Land – Matthew Heineman ve Tom Yellin
   - The Look Of Silence – "Joshua Oppenheimer ve Signe Byre Sorenson"
   - What Happened, Miss Simone? – Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby ve Justin Wilkes
   - Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom – Evgeny Afineevsky ve Den Tolmor
 - 2016 - Ezra Edelman ve Caroline Waterlow 
   - Fire at Sea - Gianfranco Rosi ve Donatella Palermo
   - I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety ve Hébert Peck
   - Life, Animated - Roger Ross Williams ve Julie Goldman
   - 13th Ava DuVernay, - Spencer Averick ve Howard Barish