Jelasin soal Penyutradaraan Dokumenter Menakjubkan (Directors Guild of America Award) dong

Prestasi Penyutradaraan Menakjubkan dalam Dokumenter (Directors Guild of America Award) telah dianugerahi sejak 1991.

1991: Barbara Kopple – American Dream

Alan Raymond – Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House

Albert Maysles – Soldiers of Music: Rostorpovitch Returns to Russia

Eleanor Coppola – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1992: Joseph A. Berlinger dan Bruce J. Sinofsky – Brother's Keeper

Mark Stouffer – Braving Alaska

Ric Burns – The Donner Party

1993: Barbara Kopple – Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

Susan Steinberg – Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time

Susan Raymond – I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

Bruce Kuerten – From Fields of Promise

Shari Cookson – Skinheads Usa: Soldiers in the Race War

1994: Steve James – Hoop Dreams

Bethany Yarrow – Mama Awethu!

Susan Todd & Andrew Young – Lives in Hazard

Jyll Johnstone – Martha & Ethel

Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine – Frosh: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm

1995: Terry Zwigoff – Crumb

Deborah Hoffmann – Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Freida Mock – Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

Bill Van Daalen – Indianapolis: Ship of Doom

Helen Whitney – Richard Avedon: Darkness & Light

1996: Al Pacino – Looking for Richard

Leon Gast – When We Were Kings

Jeanne Jordan – Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

Isaac Mizrahi – Slaughter, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

Bruce Sinofsky And Joseph Berlinger – Paradise Lost

1997: Michael Uys dan Lexy Lovell – Riding the Rails

Ellen Hovde – Liberty! The American Revolution: "Blows Must Decide"

Michele Ohayon – Colors Straight Up

Peter Rosen – First Person Singular: I.M. Pei

1998: Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert dan Gordon Quinn – Vietnam, Long Time Coming

Susan Lacy – Leonard Bernstein, Reaching for the Note

Nigel Noble – Porgy and Bess: An American Voice

Kyra Thompson – Dying to Tell the Story

1999: Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen – On the Ropes

Barry Blaustein – Beyond the Mat

Marc Levin – Thug Life In DC

Errol Morris – Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Gary Weimberg – The Double Life Of Ernesto Gomez

2000: Chuck Braverman – High School Boot Camp

Laurie Collyer – Nuyorican Dream

David DeVries – The True Story Of The Bridge On The River Kwai

Mark Lewis – The Natural History Of The Chicken

Michael Mierendorf – Broken Child

2001: Chris Hegedus dan Jehane Noujaim – Startup.com Charles Braverman – Rocky and Rolanda

Stephen Ives – Amato: A Love Affair with Opera

Deborah Hoffmann dan Frances Reid – Long Night's Journey Into Day

Martin J. Spinelli – Life on Jupiter

2002: Tasha Oldham – The Smith Family Charles Braverman – Bottom of the Ninth Rebecca Cammisa dan Rob Fruchtman – Sister Helen Malcolm Clarke dan Stuart Sender – Prisoner of Paradise Leah Mahan – Sweet Old Song, P.O.V 2003: Nathaniel Kahn – My Architect

Sam Green and Bill Siegel – The Weather Underground Andrew Jarecki – Capturing the Friedmans Errol Morris – The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara José Padilha – Ônibus 174 2004: Byambasuren Davaa dan Luigi Falorni – Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The Story of the Weeping Camel)

Zana Briski dan Ross Kauffman – Born into Brothels Ross McElwee – Bright Leaves Michael Moore – Fahrenheit 9/11 Jehane Noujaim – Control Room 2005: Werner Herzog – Grizzly Man

Kief Davidson dan Richard Ladkani – The Devil's Miner Sean McAllister – The Liberace of Baghdad Rupert Murray – Unknown White Male Brent and Craig Renaud – Off to War 2006: Arūnas Matelis – Before Flying Back to the Earth

Amy Berg – Deliver Us From Evil Michael Glawogger – Workingman's Death James Longley – Iraq In Fragments Jean-Henri Meunier – Ici Najac, A Vous La Terre 2007: Asger Leth – Ghosts of Cité Soleil

Ken Burns dan Lynn Novick – The War Alex Gibney – Taxi to the Dark Side Richard Robbins – Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience Barbet Schroeder – Terror's Advocate (L'avocat de la terreur) 2008: Ari Folman – Vals Im Bashir

Peter Gilbert, Steve James – At the Death House Door Elizabeth Farnsworth, Patricio Lanfranco Leverton – The Judge and the General James Marsh – Man on Wire Gonzalo Arijón – Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains 2009: Louie Psihoyos – The Cove

Sacha Gervasi – Anvil! The True Story of Anvil Mai Iskander – Garbage Dreams Robert Kenner – Food, Inc. Geoffrey Smith – The English Surgeon Agnes Varda – The Beaches of Agnès 2010an

2010: Charles Ferguson – Inside Job Lixin Fan – Last Train Home

Alex Gibney – Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Davis Guggenheim – Waiting for "Superman"

Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington – Restrepo

2011: James Marsh – Project Nim

Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Steve James – The Interrupters

Richard Press – Bill Cunningham New York

Martin Scorsese – George Harrison: Living in the Material World

2012: Malik Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man

Kirby Dick – The Invisible War

David France – How to Survive a Plague

Lauren Greenfield – The Queen of Versailles

Alison Klayman – Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

2013: Jehane Noujaim – The Square

Zachary Heinzerling – Cutie and the Boxer