# Hot Docs Award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary

The Hot Docs Award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary is an annual Canadian film award, presented by the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival to the film selected by jury members as the year's best Canadian feature film in the festival program. The award was presented for the first time in 1998; prior to that year, awards were presented in various genre categories, but no special distinction for Canadian films was presented. The award is sponsored by the Documentary Organization of Canada and Telefilm Canada, and carries a cash prize of $10,000.
In 2001, the festival presented both "gold" and "silver" medals in the category, although this structure was not retained in future years.
In most years, the festival also presents a Special Jury Prize to a Canadian feature documentary which was not the primary winner of the main award, but still features some award-worthy aspect such as narrative or technical innovation. The Special Jury Prize is sponsored by the Directors Guild of Canada and its Ontario chapter, and carries a $5,000 cash prize.

## Winners
### Best Canadian Feature Documentary

| Year | Film | Filmmaker(s) |
| 1998 | Chile, Obstinate Memory (Chile, la memoria obstinada) | Patricio Guzmán |
| 1999 | Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows | Paul Jay |
| 2000 | The Holier It Gets | Jennifer Baichwal |
| 2001 | My Left Breast Gold | Gerry Rogers |
| 2001 | Out of the Fire Silver | Shelley Saywell |
| 2002 | The Fiancée of Life (La fiancée de la vie) | Carole Laganière |
| 2003 | Rage Against the Darkness | John Kastner |
| 2004 | Army of One | Sarah Goodman |
| 2005 | Hogtown: The Politics of Policing | Min Sook Lee |
| 2006 | Martyr Street | Shelley Saywell |
| 2007 | The Bodybuilder and I | Bryan Friedman |
| 2008 | Flicker | Nik Sheehan |
| 2009 | Invisible City | Hubert Davis |
| 2010 | In the Name of the Family | Shelley Saywell |
| 2011 | Family Portrait in Black and White | Julia Ivanova |
| 2012 | The World Before Her | Nisha Pahuja |
| 2013 | When I Walk | Jason DaSilva |
| 2014 | Out of Mind, Out of Sight | John Kastner |
| 2015 | Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World | Charles Wilkinson |
| 2016 | Koneline: Our Land Beautiful | Nettie Wild |
| 2017 | Unarmed Verses | Charles Officer |
| 2018 | A Little Wisdom | Yuqi Kang |
| 2019 | Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | Tasha Hubbard |
| 2020 | Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue) | Jean-François Lesage |
| 2021 | Zo Reken | Emanuel Licha |
| 2022 | Geographies of Solitude | Jacquelyn Mills |
| 2023 | I Lost My Mom (J'ai placé ma mère) | Denys Desjardins |
| 2024 | The Soldier's Lagoon | Pablo Álvarez Mesa |

### Special Jury Prize

| Year | Film | Filmmaker(s) |
| 2003 | The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali | Joseph Blasioli |
| 2004 | Continuous Journey | Ali Kazimi |
| 2005 | No award | No award |
| 2006 | Mystic Ball | Greg Hamilton |
| 2007 | Driven by Dreams (À force de rêves) | Serge Giguère |
| 2008 | Junior | Isabelle Lavigne |
| 2009 | Waterlife | Kevin McMahon |
| 2010 | Leave Them Laughing | John Zaritsky |
| 2011 | At Night, They Dance | Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault |
| 2011 | The Guantanamo Trap | Thomas Wallner |
| 2012 | Peace Out | Charles Wilkinson |
| 2013 | Alphée of the Stars (Alphée des étoiles) | Hugo Latulippe |
| 2014 | Before the Last Curtain Falls | Thomas Wallner |
| 2015 | The Amina Profile | Sophie Deraspe |
| 2016 | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes | Brett Story |
| 2017 | Resurrecting Hassan | Carlo Guillermo Proto |
| 2018 | What Walaa Wants | Christy Garland |
| 2019 | Prey | Matt Gallagher |
| 2020 | Stateless | Michèle Stephenson |
| 2021 | One of Ours | Yasmine Mathurin |
| 2022 | Rojek | Zaynê Akyol |
| 2023 | Caiti Blues | Justine Harbonnier |
| 2024 | Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story | Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee |