# Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Guldbagge for Best Documentary Feature is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to award documentary films in the Swedish motion picture industry.

## Winners and nominees

Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below, along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature and the director associated with the award. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best documentary feature.
| Year | Film | Director(s) |
| 2000 (36th) | Min mamma hade fjorton barn‡ | Lars Lennart Forsberg |
| 2000 (36th) | Fyren | Kristian Petri, Jan Röed and Magnus Enquist |
| 2000 (36th) | Respect! | Susanna Edwards |
| 2001 (37th) | Ljudmilas röst‡ | Gunnar Bergdahl |
| 2001 (37th) | Låt dom andra sköta kärleken | Ruben Östlund |
| 2001 (37th) | Mormor, Hitler och jag | Carl Johan De Geer |
| 2002 (38th) | The Bricklayer‡ | Stefan Jarl |
| 2002 (38th) | Boogie Woogie Pappa | Erik Bäfving |
| 2002 (38th) | Gömd | David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn and Mats Johansson |
| 2003 (39th) | Du ska nog se att det går över‡ | Cecilia Neant-Falk |
| 2003 (39th) | Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers | Erik Gandini |
| 2003 (39th) | Zonen | Esaias Baitel |
| 2004 (40th) | Armwrestler from Solitude‡ | Lisa Munthe and Helen Ahlsson |
| 2004 (40th) | The Baker | Kristina Meiton |
| 2004 (40th) | Gå loss | Magnus Gertten and Erik Bäfving |
| 2005 (41st) | Prostitution Behind the Veil‡ | Nahid Persson Sarvestani |
| 2005 (41st) | The Well | Kristian Petri |
| 2005 (41st) | The Kinch | Måns Månsson |
| 2006 (42nd) | The Substitute‡ | Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren |
| 2006 (42nd) | Alice and Me | Rebecka Rasmusson |
| 2006 (42nd) | I Remember Håkan Alexandersson | Carl Johan De Geer |
| 2007 (43rd) | The Nun‡ | Maud Nycander |
| 2007 (43rd) | Aching Heart | Oscar Hedin |
| 2007 (43rd) | Paradise | Jerzy Sladkowski |
| 2008 (44th) | Maggie in Wonderland‡ | Mark Hammarberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Andersson |
| 2008 (44th) | Mr. Governor | Måns Månsson |
| 2008 (44th) | An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation | Patrik Eriksson |
| 2009 (45th) | Ebbe - The Movie‡ | Karin af Klintberg and Jane Magnusson |
| 2009 (45th) | The Queen and I | Nahid Persson Sarvestani |
| 2009 (45th) | Videocracy | Erik Gandini |
| 2010 (46th) | Regretters‡ | Marcus Lindeen |
| 2010 (46th) | Kiss Bill | Emelie Wallgren and Ina Holmqvist |
| 2010 (46th) | Familia | Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits |
| 2011 (47th) | At Night I Fly‡ | Michel Wenzer |
| 2011 (47th) | Stora scenen | Tova Mozard |
| 2011 (47th) | The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 | Göran Olsson |
| 2012 (48th) | Searching for Sugar Man‡ | Malik Bendjelloul |
| 2012 (48th) | Palme | Maud Nycander and Kristina Lindström |
| 2012 (48th) | Pojktanten | Ester Martin Bergsmark |
| 2013 (49th) | Belleville Baby‡ | Mia Engberg |
| 2013 (49th) | Forest of the Dancing Spirits | Linda Västrik |
| 2013 (49th) | No Burqas Behind Bars | Nima Sarvestani |
| 2014 (50th) | Concerning Violence‡ | Göran Olsson |
| 2014 (50th) | Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own | Clara Bodén |
| 2014 (50th) | Ute på landet | Anders Jedenfors |
| 2015 (51st) | Detained‡ | Anna Persson and Shaon Chakraborty |
| 2015 (51st) | Every Face Has a Name | Magnus Gertten |
| 2015 (51st) | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Stig Björkman |
| 2016 (52nd) | Martha & Niki‡ | Tora Mkandawire Mårtens |
| 2016 (52nd) | Don Juan | Jerzy Sladkowski |
| 2016 (52nd) | MonaLisa Story | Jessica Nettelbladt |
| 2017 (53rd) | Silvana‡ | Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring and Christina Tsiobanelis |
| 2017 (53rd) | Letters to a Serial Killer | Manal Masri |
| 2017 (53rd) | The Celestial Darkroom | Nils Petter Löfstedt |
| 2018 (54th) | Reconstructing Utøya‡ | Carl Javér |
| 2018 (54th) | The Raft | Marcus Lindeen |
| 2018 (54th) | The Deminer | Hogir Hirori |
| 2019 (55th) | Transnistra‡ | Anna Eborn |
| 2019 (55th) | Fraemling | Mikel Cee Karlsson |
| 2019 (55th) | Josefin & Florin | Ellen Fiske and Joanna Karlberg |
| 2020 (56th) | Greta‡ | Nathan Grossman |
| 2020 (56th) | Idomeni | David Aronowitsch |
| 2020 (56th) | Scheme Birds | Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin |

## Documentary films in other categories

Before the introduction of the award at the 36th Guldbagge Awards, documentaries were qualified for the categories of Best Film, and Best Shortfilm. The following films won the categories they were nominated in.

### Best Film

| Year | Film | Director(s) |
| 1968/69 (6th) | The White Game‡ | Grupp 13 |
| 1978/79 (15th) | A Respectable Life‡ | Stefan Jarl |
| 1984 (20th) | Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain‡ | Agneta Elers-Jarleman |
| 1988 (24th) | Back to Ararat‡ | Jim Downing, Göran Gunér, Per-Åke Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian |
| 1994 (30th) | A Pizza in Jordbro‡ | Rainer Hartleb |

### Best Shortfilm

| Year | Film | Director(s) |
| 1996 (32nd) | I skuggan av solen‡ | Susanna Edwards |
| 1998 (34th) | Aligermaas eventyr‡ | Andra Lasmanis |
| 2000 (36th) | Del av den värld som är din‡ | Karin Wegsjö |