# Truer Than Fiction Award

Il Truer Than Fiction Award è un premio cinematografico assegnato annualmente dal 1997 nell'ambito degli Independent Spirit Awards al regista di un film non di finzione di eccezionale livello artistico.

## Vincitori e candidati

I vincitori sono indicati in grassetto, a seguire gli altri candidati.

### Anni 1990

* 1997: Leon Gast - Quando eravamo re (When We Were Kings)
** Steven Ascher e Jeanne Jordan - The American Experience - Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
** Rob Epstein e Jeffrey Friedman - Lo schermo velato (The Celluloid Closet)
** Al Pacino - Riccardo III - un uomo, un re (Looking for Richard)
** Joe Berlinger e Bruce Sinofsky - Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
* 1998: Errol Morris - Fast, Cheap & Out of Control ex aequo Danielle Gardner - Soul in the Hole
** Michèle Ohayon - Colors Straight Up
* 1999: Barbara Sonneborn - Regret to Inform
** Tim Kirkman - Dear Jesse
** Kyra Thompson - Dying to Tell the Story
** Julia Loktev - Moment of Impact
** Vicky Funari - Paulina

### Anni 2000

* 2000: Owsley Brown - Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
** Rory Kennedy - American Hollow
** Nanette Burstein e Brett Morgen - On the Ropes
** Michael Camerini e Shari Robertson - Well-Founded Fear
* 2001: David S. Shapiro e Laurie Shapiro - Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
** Jem Cohen e Peter Sillen - Benjamin Smoke
** James Ronald Whitney - Just, Melvin: Just Evil
** Vincent Fremont e Shelly Dunn Fremont - Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
* 2002: Monteith McCollum - Hybrid
** Edet Belzberg - Children Underground
** Alix Lambert - The Mark of Caïn
** B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado e Justine Shapiro - Promesse (Promises)
** Sandi Simcha DuBowski - Trembling Before G-d
* 2003: Jennifer Dworkin - Love and Diane
** Jeffrey Blitz - Spellbound
** Mark Moskowitz - Stone Reader
** Eugene Jarecki - The Trials of Henry Kissinger
* 2004: Megan Mylan e Jon Shenk - Lost Boys of Sudan
** Linda Goode Bryant e Laura Poitras - Flag Wars
** Nathaniel Kahn - My Architect
** Robb Moss - The Same River Twice
* 2005: Zana Briski e Ross Kauffman - Born into Brothels (Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids)
** Shola Lynch - Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
** Jehane Noujaim - Control Room
** Carlos Sandoval e Catherine Tambini - Farmingville
* 2006: Garrett Scott e Ian Olds - Occupation: Dreamland - Viaggio organizzato in Iraq (Occupation: Dreamland)
** Rachel Boynton - Our Brand Is Crisis
** Mark Becker - Romántico
** Thomas Allen Harris - Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
* 2007: Adele Horne - The Tailenders
** Eric Daniel Metzgar - The Chances of the World Changing
** AJ Schnack - Kurt Cobain About a Son
* 2008: Laura Dunn - The Unforeseen
** Gary Hustwit - Helvetica
** John Maringouin - Running Stumbled
* 2009: Margaret Brown - The Order of Myths
** Sacha Gervasi - Anvil! The Story of Anvil
** Darius Marder - Loot

### Anni 2010

* 2010: Bill Ross e Turner Ross - 45365
** Jessica Oreck - Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
** Natalia Almada - El general
* 2011: Jeff Malmberg - Marwencol
** Ilisa Barbash e Lucien Castaing-Taylor - Sweetgrass
** Lynn True e Nelson Walker - Summer Pasture
* 2012: Heather Courtney - Where Soldiers Come From
** Danfung Dennis - Hell and Back Again
** Alma Har'el - Bombay Beach
* 2013: Peter Nicks - The Waiting Room
** Lucien Castaing-Taylor e Véréna Paravel - Leviathan
** Jason Tippet ed Elizabeth Mims - Only the Young
* 2014: Jason Osder - Let the Fire Burn
** Kaylanee Mam - A River Changes Course
** Stephanie Spray e Pacho Velez - Manakamana
* 2015: Dan Krauss - The Kill Team
** Amanda Rose Wilder - Approaching the Elephant
** Darius Clark Monroe - Evolution of a Criminal
** Sara Dosa - The Last Season
* 2016: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Incorruptible
** Alex Sichel e Elizabeth Giamatti – A Woman Like Me
** Hemal Trivedi e Mohammed Ali Naqvi – Among the Believers
* 2017: Nanfu Wang – Hooligan Sparrow
** Kristi Jacobson – Solitary
** Sara Jordenö – Kiki
* 2018: Quest, regia di Jonathan Olshefski
** The Cage Fighter, regia di Jeff Unay
** Distant Constellation, regia di Shevaun Mizrahi
* 2019: Minding the Gap, regia di Bing Liu
** Sulle sue spalle (On Her Shoulders), regia di Alexandria Bombach
** Hale County This Morning, This Evening, regia di RaMell Ross

### Anni 2020

* 2020: Jaddoland, regia di Nadia Shihab
** 17 Blocks, regia di Davy Rothbart
** América, regia di Erick Stoll e Chase Whiteside
** Black Mother, regia di Khalik Allah