# Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary is an annual award given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Documentary | Director(s) |
| 2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen |
| 2002 | Standing in the Shadows of Motown | Paul Justman |
| 2003 | The Fog of War | Errol Morris |
| 2004 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Michael Moore |
| 2005 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney |
| 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth | Davis Guggenheim |
| 2007 | Sicko | Michael Moore |
| 2008 | Man on Wire | James Marsh |
| 2009 | Food, Inc. | Robert Kenner |
| 2009 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | Sacha Gervasi |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story | Michael Moore |
| 2009 | The Cove | Louie Psihoyos |
| 2009 | Good Hair | Jeff Stilson |

### 2010s

| Year | Documentary | Director(s) |
| 2010 | Exit Through the Gift Shop | Banksy |
| 2010 | Inside Job | Charles Ferguson |
| 2010 | Restrepo | Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger |
| 2010 | The Tillman Story | Amir Bar-Lev |
| 2010 | Waiting for "Superman" | Davis Guggenheim |
| 2011 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Werner Herzog |
| 2011 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | Constance Marks |
| 2011 | Buck | Cindy Meehl |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | Werner Herzog |
| 2011 | Project Nim | James Marsh |
| 2012 | Bully | Lee Hirsch |
| 2012 | The Imposter | Bart Layton |
| 2012 | The Invisible War | Kirby Dick |
| 2012 | The Queen of Versailles | Lauren Greenfield |
| 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul |
| 2013 | Blackfish | Gabriela Cowperthwaite |
| 2013 | 20 Feet from Stardom | Morgan Neville |
| 2013 | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 2013 | Leviathan | Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel |
| 2013 | Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley |
| 2014 | Life Itself | Steve James |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
| 2014 | Jodorowsky's Dune | Frank Pavich |
| 2014 | Last Days in Vietnam | Rory Kennedy |
| 2014 | The Overnighters | Jesse Moss |
| 2015 | Amy | Asif Kapadia |
| 2015 | Best of Enemies | Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville |
| 2015 | Cartel Land | Matthew Heineman |
| 2015 | Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Alex Gibney |
| 2015 | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 2016 | 13th | Ava DuVernay |
| 2016 | Gleason | Clay Tweel |
| 2016 | I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman |
| 2016 | Weiner | Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg |
| 2017 | Jane | Brett Morgen |
| 2017 | City of Ghosts | Matthew Heineman |
| 2017 | Faces Places | Agnès Varda and JR |
| 2017 | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk |
| 2017 | Step | Amanda Lipitz |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville |
| 2018 | Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin |
| 2018 | RBG | Betsy West and Julie Cohen |
| 2018 | Science Fair | Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster |
| 2018 | Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller |
| 2019 | American Factory | Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert |
| 2019 | For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts |
| 2019 | Honeyland | Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev |
| 2019 | One Child Nation | Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang |

### 2020s

| Year | Documentary | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Boys State | Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine |
| 2020 | Collective | Alexander Nanau |
| 2020 | Crip Camp | Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht |
| 2020 | Dick Johnson Is Dead | Kirsten Johnson |
| 2020 | Time | Garrett Bradley |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul | Questlove |
| 2021 | The First Wave | Matthew Heineman |
| 2021 | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen |
| 2021 | The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin |
| 2021 | Val | Leo Scott and Ting Poo |
| 2022 | Good Night Oppy | Ryan White |
| 2022 | All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras |
| 2022 | Descendant | Margaret Brown |
| 2022 | Fire of Love | Sara Dosa |
| 2023 | American Symphony | David Guggenheim |
| 2023 | 20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov |
| 2023 | Little Richard: I Am Everything | Lisa Cortés |
| 2023 | Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Davis Guggenheim |
| 2023 | They Shot the Piano Player | Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal |
| 2024 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui |
| 2024 | Dahomey | Mati Diop |
| 2024 | Daughters | Natalie Rae and Angela Patton |
| 2024 | Music by John Williams | Laurent Bouzereau |
| 2024 | No Other Land | Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor |
| 2024 | Will & Harper | Josh Greenbaum |