Jabarkan Joshua Oppenheimer – Jagal dari Penyutradaraan Dokumenter Menakjubkan (Directors Guild of America Award)

Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

Lucy Walker – The Crash Reel

2014: Laura Poitras – Citizenfour

Dan Krauss – The Kill Team

John Maloof dan Charlie Siskel – Finding Vivian Maier

Jesse Moss – The Overnighters

Orlando von Einsiedel – Virunga

2015: Matthew Heineman – Cartel Land

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Meru

Liz Garbus – What Happened, Miss Simone?

Alex Gibney – Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

2016: Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America

Otto Bell – The Eagle Huntress

Josh Kriegman dan Elyse Steinberg – Weiner

Raoul Peck – I Am Not Your Negro

Roger Ross Williams – Life, Animated