# Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture

The Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures is an award annually given by Producers Guild of America since 2007.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 2007 (19th) | Sicko | Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara |
| 2007 (19th) | Body of War | Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro |
| 2007 (19th) | Hear and Now | Irene Taylor Brodsky |
| 2007 (19th) | Pete Seeger: The Power of Song | Jim Brown, Michael Cohl, and William Eigen |
| 2007 (19th) | White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Steven Okazaki |
| 2008 (20th) | Man on Wire | Simon Chinn |
| 2008 (20th) | Standard Operating Procedure | Julie Ahlberg and Errol Morris |
| 2008 (20th) | Trouble the Water | Carl Deal and Tia Lessin |
| 2009 (21st) | The Cove | Fisher Stevens and Paula DuPré Pesmen |
| 2009 (21st) | Burma VJ | Lise Lense-Møller |
| 2009 (21st) | Sergio | John Battsek, Greg Barker, and Julie Goldman |
| 2009 (21st) | Soundtrack for a Revolution | Joslyn Barnes, Jim Czarnecki, Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman, and Dylan Nelson |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 2010 (22nd) | Waiting for "Superman" | Lesley Chilcott |
| 2010 (22nd) | Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Maiken Baird, Alex Gibney, Jedd Wider, and Todd Wider |
| 2010 (22nd) | Earth Made of Glass | Reid Carolin and Deborah Scranton |
| 2010 (22nd) | Inside Job | Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs |
| 2010 (22nd) | Smash His Camera | Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger |
| 2010 (22nd) | The Tillman Story | John Battsek |
| 2011 (23rd) | Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest | Michael Rapaport, Edward Parks, Frank Mele, and Debra Koffler |
| 2011 (23rd) | Bill Cunningham New York | Philip Gefter |
| 2011 (23rd) | Project Nim | Simon Chinn |
| 2011 (23rd) | Senna | James Gay-Rees |
| 2011 (23rd) | The Union | Cameron Crowe and Michelle Panek |
| 2012 (24th) | Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn |
| 2012 (24th) | A People Uncounted | Marc Swenker and Aaron Yegerr |
| 2012 (24th) | The Gatekeepers | Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky, and Dror Moreh |
| 2012 (24th) | The Island President | Richard Berge and Bonni Cohen |
| 2012 (24th) | The Other Dream Team | Marius Markevicius and Jon Weinbach |
| 2013 (25th) | We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks | Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, and Marc Shmuger |
| 2013 (25th) | Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story | Brad Bernstein and Rick Cikowski |
| 2013 (25th) | Life According to Sam | Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine, and Miriam Weintraub |
| 2013 (25th) | A Place at the Table | Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, and Lori Silverbush |
| 2013 (25th) | Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington | James Brabazon and Nick Quested |
| 2014 (26th) | Life Itself | Zak Piper, Steve James, and Garrett Basch |
| 2014 (26th) | The Green Prince | Nadav Schirman, John Battsek, and Simon Chinn |
| 2014 (26th) | Merchants of Doubt | Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo |
| 2014 (26th) | Particle Fever | David E. Kaplan, Mark Levinson, Andrea Miller, and Carla Solomon |
| 2014 (26th) | Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara |
| 2015 (27th) | Amy | James Gay-Rees |
| 2015 (27th) | The Hunting Ground | Amy Ziering |
| 2015 (27th) | The Look of Silence | Signe Byrge Sørensen |
| 2015 (27th) | Meru | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin |
| 2015 (27th) | Something Better to Come | Sigrid Dyekjær and Hanna Polak |
| 2016 (28th) | O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow |
| 2016 (28th) | Dancer | Gabrielle Tana |
| 2016 (28th) | The Eagle Huntress | Stacey Reiss and Otto Bell |
| 2016 (28th) | Life, Animated | Julie Goldman and Roger Ross Williams |
| 2016 (28th) | Tower | Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, and Megan Gilbride |
| 2017 (29th) | Jane | Brett Morgen, Bryan Burk, Tony Gerber, and James Smith |
| 2017 (29th) | Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes |
| 2017 (29th) | City of Ghosts | Matthew Heineman |
| 2017 (29th) | Cries from Syria | Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor, and Aaron I. Butler |
| 2017 (29th) | Earth: One Amazing Day | Stephen McDonogh |
| 2017 (29th) | Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower | Matthew Torne, Mark Rinehart, and Joe Piscatella |
| 2017 (29th) | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Teddy Kunhardt and George Kunhardt |
| 2018 (30th) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville, Nicholas Ma, and Caryn Capotosto |
| 2018 (30th) | The Dawn Wall | Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer, and Philipp Manderla |
| 2018 (30th) | Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, and Shannon Dill |
| 2018 (30th) | Hal | Christine Beebe, Jonathan Lynch, and Brian Morrow |
| 2018 (30th) | Into the Okavango | Neil Gelinas |
| 2018 (30th) | RBG | Betsy West and Julie Cohen |
| 2018 (30th) | Three Identical Strangers | Becky Read and Grace Hughes-Hallett |
| 2019 (31st) | Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller and Thomas Petersen |
| 2019 (31st) | Advocate | Philippe Bellaïche and Rachel Leah Jones |
| 2019 (31st) | American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, and Jeff Reichert |
| 2019 (31st) | The Cave | Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjaer |
| 2019 (31st) | For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab |
| 2019 (31st) | Honeyland | Atanas Georgiev and Ljubomir Stefanov |
| 2019 (31st) | One Child Nation | Christoph Jörg, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, Nanfu Wang, and Jialing Zhan |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) | Ref. |
| 2020 (32nd) | My Octopus Teacher | Craig Foster | |
| 2020 (32nd) | David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Jonnie Hughes | |
| 2020 (32nd) | Dick Johnson Is Dead | Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny, and Marilyn Ness | |
| 2020 (32nd) | Softie | Toni Kamau and Sam Soko | |
| 2020 (32nd) | A Thousand Cuts | Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn | |
| 2020 (32nd) | Time | Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, and Garrett Bradley | |
| 2020 (32nd) | The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw | |
| 2021 (33rd) | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Joseph Patel, David Dinerstein, and Robert Fyvolent | [17] [18][19] |
| 2021 (33rd) | Ascension | Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, and Nathan Truesdell | [17] [18][19] |
| 2021 (33rd) | The First Wave | | [17] [18][19] |
| 2021 (33rd) | Flee | | [17] [18][19] |
| 2021 (33rd) | In the Same Breath | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn | [17] [18][19] |
| 2021 (33rd) | The Rescue | | [17] [18][19] |
| 2021 (33rd) | Simple as Water | Robin Hessman and Megan Mylan | [17] [18][19] |
| 2021 (33rd) | Writing with Fire | Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh | [17] [18][19] |
| 2022 (34th) | Navalny | Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris | [20][21] [22] |
| 2022 (34th) | All That Breathes | Aman Mann, Shaunak Sen, and Teddy Leifer | [20][21] [22] |
| 2022 (34th) | Descendant | Margaret Brown, Kyle Martin, and Essie Chambers | [20][21] [22] |
| 2022 (34th) | Fire of Love | Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, and Ina Fichman | [20][21] [22] |
| 2022 (34th) | Nothing Compares | Eleanor Emptage and Michael Mallie | [20][21] [22] |
| 2022 (34th) | Retrograde | Matthew Heineman and Caitlin McNally | [20][21] [22] |
| 2022 (34th) | The Territory | Sigrid Dyekjaer, Will Miller, Lizzie Gillett, Darren Aronofsky, Gabriel Uchida, and Alex Pritz | [20][21] [22] |
| 2023 (35th) | American Symphony | Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman, and Joedan Okun | |
| 2023 (35th) | 20 Days in Mariupol | | |
| 2023 (35th) | Beyond Utopia | | |
| 2023 (35th) | The Disappearance of Shere Hite | | |
| 2023 (35th) | The Mother of All Lies | | |
| 2023 (35th) | Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | | |
| 2023 (35th) | Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) | | |
| 2024 (36th) | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Lizzie Gillett, Robert Ford, and Ian Bonhôte | |
| 2024 (36th) | Gaucho Gaucho | Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw | |
| 2024 (36th) | Mediha | Hasan Oswald, Annelise Mecca, and Fahrinisa Campana | |
| 2024 (36th) | Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa | Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, and Christopher Newman | |
| 2024 (36th) | Porcelain War | Aniela Sidorska and Paula DuPré Pesmen | |
| 2024 (36th) | We Will Dance Again | | |

## Multiple nominations and wins

| Wins | Nominations | Name (Year) |
| 2 | 5 | Simon Chinn (2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018) |
| 1 | 3 | Matthew Heineman (2017, 2022, 2023) |
| 1 | 2 | Alex Gibney (2010, 2013) |
| 1 | 2 | James Gay-Rees (2011, 2015) |
| 1 | 2 | Lauren Domino (2020, 2023) |
| 1 | 2 | Shane Boris (2022) |
| 0 | 5 | Julie Goldman (2009, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020) |
| 0 | 3 | John Battsek (2009, 2010, 2014) |
| 0 | 3 | Sigrid Dyekjær (2015, 2019, 2022) |
| 0 | 2 | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (2015, 2018) |
| 0 | 2 | Jimmy Chin (2015, 2018) |
| 0 | 2 | Christopher Clements (2019, 2020) |
| 0 | 2 | Carolyn Hepburn (2019, 2020) |