Óscar ó mellor documental

O Oscar ó mellor documental é un premio que galardoa os mellores filmes documentais.

 Gañadores e nomeados 

 1940 
En 1942, había unha soa categoría de Documental, con vinte e cinco nomeados e catro gañadores.
1942 - Gañadores:
The Battle of Midway
Kokoda Front Line!
Moscow Strikes Back
Prelude to War
Nomeados:
Africa, Prelude to Victory
Combat Report
Conquer by the Clock
The Grain That Built a Hemisphere
Henry Browne, Farmer 
High Over the Borders
High Stakes in the East
Inside Fighting China
It's Everybody's War
Listen to Britain
Little Belgium
Little Isles of Freedom
Mr. Blabbermouth!
Mister Gardenia Jones
The New Spirit
The Price of Victory 
A Ship Is Born 
Twenty-One Miles 
We Refuse to Die
The White Eagle 
Winning Your Wings

Dende 1943, a categoría foi separada en dúas (documental e curta documental).
1943 - Desert Victory
 Baptism of Fire
 The Battle of Russia
 Report from the Aleutians
 War Department Report
1944 - The Fighting Lady
 Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1945 - The True Glory
 The Last Bomb
1946 - non entregado
1947 - Design for Death
 Journey Into Medicine
 The World Is Rich
1948 - The Secret Land
 The Quiet One
1949 - Daybreak in Udi
Kenji Comes Home

 1950 
1950 - The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
 With These Hands
1951 - Kon-Tiki
 I Was a Communist for the FBI
1952 - The Sea Around Us
 The Hoaxters
 Navajo
1953 - The Living Desert
 The Conquest of Everest
 A Queen Is Crowned
1954 - The Vanishing Prairie
 The Stratford Adventure
1955 - Helen Keller in Her Story
 Crèvecoeur
1956 - Le Monde du silence
 Hvor bjergene sejler
 The Naked Eye
1957 - Albert Schweitzer
 On the Bowery
 Torero
1958 - White Wilderness
 Antarctic Crossing
 The Hidden World
 Psychiatric Nursing
1959 - Serengeti Shall Not Die
 The Race for Space

 1960 
1960 - The Horse with the Flying Tail
 Rebel in Paradise
1961 - Sky Above and Mud Beneath, dirixido por Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
 La grande olimpiade, dirixido por Romolo Marcellini
1962 - Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
 Alvorada-Hugo Niebeling
1963 - Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
 Le Maillon et la chaîne
 The Yanks Are Coming
1964 - World Without Sun
 14-18
 Alleman
 The Finest Hours
 Four Days in November
1965 - The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
 The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
 The Forth Road Bridge
 Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
 Mourir à Madrid
1966 - The War Game
 The Face of a Genius
 Helicopter Canada
 The Really Big Family
 Le Volcan interdit
1967 - The Anderson Platoon
 Festival
 Harvest
 A King's Story
 A Time for Burning
1968 - Journey into Self
 A Few Notes on Our Food Problem
 Legendary Champions
 Other Voices
1969 - Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
 Before the Mountain Was Moved
 In the Year of the Pig
 Olimpiada en México
 The Wolf Men

 1970 
1970 - Woodstock
Erinnerungen an die Zukunft 
Jack Johnson
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Say Goodbye
1971 - The Hellstrom Chronicle
Alaska Wilderness Lake
Le chagrin et la pitié
On Any Sunday
Ra
1972 - Marjoe
Bij de beesten af
Malcolm X
Manson
The Silent Revolution
1973 - The Great American Cowboy
Always a New Beginning
Journey to the Outer Limits
Schlacht um Berlin
Walls of Fire
1974 - Hearts and Minds
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
The 81st Blow
The Wild and the Brave
1975 - The Man Who Skied Down Everest
The California Reich
Fighting for Our Lives
The Incredible Machine
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
1976 - Harlan County, USA dirixido por Barbara KoppleHollywood on TrialOff the EdgePeople of the WindVolcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry1977 - Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?The Children of Theatre StreetHigh Grass CircusHomage to Chagall: The Colours of LoveUnion Maids1978 - Scared Straight!Mysterious Castles of ClayRaoniLe vent des amoureuxWith Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade1979 - Best BoyGeneration on the WindGoing the DistanceThe Killing GroundThe War at Home 1980 1980 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China dirixido por Murray Lerner
 Agee The Day After Trinity Front Line The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-451981 Genocide dirixido por Arnold Schwartzman
 Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey Brooklyn Bridge Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott El Salvador: Another Vietnam1982 Just Another Missing Kid dirixido por John Zaritsky
 A Portrait of Giselle After the Axe Ben's Mill In Our Water1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' dirixido por Emile Ardolino
 Children of Darkness First Contact The Profession of Arms Seeing Red1984 The Times of Harvey Milk dirixido por Rob Epstein e Richard Schmiechen
 High Schools In the Name of the People Marlene Streetwise1985 Broken Rainbow dirixido por Maria Florio e Victoria Mudd
 The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Soldiers in Hiding The Statue of Liberty Unfinished Business1986: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got e  Down and Out in America Chile: Hasta Cuando? Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer Witness to Apartheid1987 The Ten-Year Lunch Eyes on the Prize Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima Radio Bikini A Stitch for Time1988  Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out Let's Get Lost Promises to Keep Who Killed Vincent Chin?1989 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt – Rob Epstein e Bill Couturié
 Adam Clayton Powell – Richard Kilberg e Yvonne Smith
 Crack USA: County Under Siege – Vince DiPersio e William Guttentag
 For All Mankind – Al Reinert e Betsy Broyles Breier
 Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren'' – Judith Leonard e Bill Jersey

 1990 
 Ano Filme Nomes 1990<small>(63ª)</small>
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|American Dream|Barbara Kopple e Arthur CohnBerkeley in the SixtiesMark KitchellBuilding BombsMark Mori e Susan RobinsonForever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeJudith MontellWaldo Salt: A Screenwriter's JourneyRobert Hillmann e Eugene Corr 1991<small>(64ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|In the Shadow of the Stars|Allie Light e Irving Saraf|-
|Death on the Job
|Vince DiPersio e William Guttentag
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|Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
|Alan Raymond e Susan Raymond
|-
|The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945
|Hava Kohav Beller
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|Wild by Law
|Lawrence Hott e Diane Garey
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1992(65ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|The Panama Deception|Barbara Trent e David Kasper|-
|Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
|David Haugland
|-
|Fires of Kuwait
|Sally Dundas
|-
|Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
|Bill Miles e Nina Rosenblum
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|Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
|Margaret Smilow e Roma Baran
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1993<small>(66ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School|Susan Raymond e Alan Raymond|-
|The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter
|David Paperny e Arthur Ginsberg
|-
|Children of Fate
|Susan Todd e Andrew Young
|-
|For Better or For Worse
|David Collier e Betsy Thompson
|-
|The War Room
|D. A. Pennebaker e Chris Hegedus
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1994(67ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision|Freida Lee Mock|-
|Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
|Deborah Hoffmann
|-
|D-Day Remembered
|Charles Guggenheim
|-
|Freedom on My Mind
|Connie Field e Marilyn Mulford
|-
|A Great Day in Harlem
|Jean Bach
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1995<small>(68ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Anne Frank Remembered|Jon Blair|-
|The Battle Over Citizen Kane
|Thomas Lennon e Michael Epstein
|-
|Fiddlefest: Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program
|Allan Miller e Walter Scheuer
|-
|Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream|Mike Tollin e Fredric Golding
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|Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern|Jeanne Jordan e Steven Ascher
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1996(69ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|When We Were Kings|Leon Gast e David Sonenberg|-
|The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
|Susan W. Dryfoos
|-
|Mandela
|Jo Menell e Angus Gibson
|-
|Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
|Anne Belle e Deborah Dickson
|-
|Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
|Rick Goldsmith
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1997<small>(70ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|The Long Way Home|Marvin Hier e Richard Trank|-
|Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
|Michael Paxton
|-
|Colors Straight Up
|Michèle Ohayon e Julia Schachter
|-
|4 Little Girls
|Spike Lee e Sam Pollard
|-
|Waco: The Rules of Engagement
|Dan Gifford e William Gazecki
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1998(71ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|The Last Days|James Moll e Ken Lipper|-
|Dancemaker
|Matthew Diamond e Jerry Kupfer
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|The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.
|Jonathan Stack e Liz Garbus
|-
|Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
|Robert B. Weide
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|Regret to Inform
|Barbara Sonneborn e Janet Cole
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1999<small>(72ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|One Day in September|Arthur Cohn e Kevin Macdonald'''
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|Buena Vista Social Club|Wim Wenders e Ulrich Felsberg
|-
|Genghis Blues|Roko Belic e Adrian Belic
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|On the Ropes|Nanette Burstein e Brett Morgen
|-
|Speaking in Strings''Paola di Florio e Lilibet Foster

 2000 
 Ano Filme Nomes 2000(73ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport|Mark Jonathan Harris e Deborah Oppenheimer|-
|Legacy
|Tod Lending
|-
|Long Night's Journey into Day
|Deborah Hoffmann e Frances Reid
|-
|Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
|Daniel Anker e Barak Goodman
|-
|Sound and Fury
|Josh Aronson e Roger Weisberg
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2001<small>(74ª)Murder on a Sunday MorningJean-Xavier de Lestrade e Denis PoncetChildren UndergroundEdet BelzbergLaLee's Kin: The Legacy of CottonDeborah Dickson e Susan FrömkePromisesB.Z. Goldberg e Justine ShapiroWar PhotographerChristian Frei 2002(75ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Bowling for Columbine|Michael Moore e Michael Donovan|-
|Daughter from Danang
|Gail Dolgin e Vicente Franco
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|Prisoner of Paradise
|Malcolm Clarke e Stuart Sender
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|Spellbound
|Jeffrey Blitz e Sean Welch
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|Winged Migration
|Jacques Perrin
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2003<small>(76ª)The Fog of WarErrol Morris e Michael WilliamsBalserosCarlos Bosch e Josep Maria DomenechCapturing the FriedmansAndrew Jarecki e Marc SmerlingMy ArchitectNathaniel Kahn e Susan R. BehrThe Weather UndergroundSam Green e Bill Siegel 2004(77ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Born into Brothels|Ross Kauffman e Zana Briski|-
|The Story of the Weeping Camel
|Byambasuren Davaa e Luigi Falorni
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|Super Size Me
|Morgan Spurlock
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|Tupac: Resurrection
|Karolyn Ali e Lauren Lazin
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|Twist of Faith
|Kirby Dick e Eddie Schmidt
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2005<small>(78ª)A viaxe do EmperadorLuc Jacquet e Yves DarondeauDarwin's NightmareHubert SauperEnron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomAlex Gibney e Jason KliotMurderballHenry Alex Rubin e Dana Adam ShapiroStreet FightMarshall Curry 2006(79ª)An Inconvenient TruthDavis GuggenheimDeliver Us from EvilAmy Berg, Frank Donner, e Matthew CookeIraq in FragmentsJames Longley e Yahya SinnoJesus CampHeidi Ewing e Rachel GradyMy Country, My CountryJocelyn Glatzer e Laura Poitras 2007(80ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Taxi to the Dark Side|Alex Gibney e Eva Orner|-
|No End in Sight
|Charles Ferguson e Audrey Marrs
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|Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
|Richard Robbins
|-
|Sicko
|Michael Moore e Meghan O'Hara
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|War/Dance
|Sean Fine e Andrea Nix
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2008<small>(81ª)Man on WireSimon Chinn e James MarshNerakhoon (The Betrayal)Ellen Kuras e Thavisouk PhrasavathEncounters at the End of the WorldWerner Herzog e Henry KaiserThe GardenScott Hamilton KennedyTrouble the WaterCarl Deal e Tia Lessin 2009(82ª)The CoveLouie Psihoyos e Fisher StevensBurma VJAnders Østergaard e Lise Lense-MøllerFood, Inc.Robert Kenner e Elise PearlsteinThe Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon PapersJudith Ehrlich e Rick GoldsmithWhich Way HomeRebecca Cammisa

 2010 
 Ano Filme Nomes 2010(83ª)Inside JobCharles H. Ferguson e Audrey MarrsExit Through the Gift ShopBanksy e Jaimie D'CruzGaslandJosh Fox e Trish AdlesicRestrepoTim Hetherington e Sebastian JungerWaste LandLucy Walker e Angus Aynsley 2011<small>(84ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Undefeated|TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay e Richard Middlemas|-
|Hell and Back Again
|Danfung Dennis e Mike Lerner
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|If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
|Marshall Curry e Sam Cullman
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|Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
|Joe Berlinger e Bruce Sinofsky
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|Pina
|Wim Wenders e Gian-Piero Ringel
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2012(85ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Searching for Sugar Man|Malik Bendjelloul e Simon Chinn|-
|5 Broken Cameras
|Emad Burnat e Guy Davidi
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|The Gatekeepers
|Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky e Estelle Fialon
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|How to Survive a Plague
|David France e Howard Gertler
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|The Invisible War
|Kirby Dick e Amy Ziering
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2013<small>(86ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|20 Feet from Stardom|Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers|-
|The Act of Killing
|Joshua Oppenheimer e Signe Byrge Sørensen
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|Cutie and the Boxer
|Zachary Heinzerling e Lydia Dean Pilcher
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|Dirty Wars
|Richard Rowley e Jeremy Scahill
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|The Square
|Jehane Noujaim e Karim Amer
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2014(87ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Citizenfour|Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy  e Dirk Wilutzky|-
|Finding Vivian Maier
|John Maloof e Charlie Siskel
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|Last Days in Vietnam
|Rory Kennedy e Kevin McAlester
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|The Salt of the Earth
|Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado e David Rosier
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|Virunga
|Orlando von Einsiedel e Joanna Natasegara
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2015<small>(88ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Amy|Asif Kapadia e James Gay-Rees|-
|Cartel Land
|Matthew Heineman e Tom Yellin
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|Senyap
|Joshua Oppenheimer e Signe Byrge Sørensen
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|What Happened, Miss Simone?
|Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby e Justin Wilkes
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|Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
|Evgeny Afineevsky e Den Tolmor
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2016(89ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|O.J.: Made in America|Ezra Edelman e Caroline Waterlow|-
|13th
|Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick e Howard Barish
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|Fuocoammare
|Gianfranco Rosi e Donatella Palermo
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|I Am Not Your Negro
|Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety e Hébert Peck
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|Life, Animated
|Roger Ross Williams e Julie Goldman
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2017<small>(90ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Icarus| Bryan Fogel e Dan Cogan|-
| Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
| Steve James, Mark Mitten e Julie Goldman
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| Faces Places
| Agnès Varda, JR e Rosalie Varda
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| Last Men in Aleppo
| Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed e Søren Steen Jespersen
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| Strong Island
| Yance Ford e Joslyn Barnes
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2018(91ª)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Free Solo| Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes e Shannon Dill|-
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening
| RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes e Su Kim
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| Minding the Gap
| Bing Liu e Diane Quon
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| Of Fathers and Sons
| Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme e Tobias N. Siebert
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| RBG
| Betsy West e Julie Cohen
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2019<small>(92ª)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| American Factory| Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert e Jeff Reichert'|-
| The Cave| Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod e Sigrid Dyekjær
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| Democracia em Vertigem| Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris e Tiago Pavan
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| For Sama| Waad al-Kateab e Edward Watts
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| Medena zemja'' Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska e Atanas Georgiev

 2020 
 Ano Filme Nomes 2020/21My Octopus TeacherPippa Ehrlich, James Reed e Craig FosterColectivAlexander Nanau e Bianca OanaCrip CampNicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht e Sara BolderEl agente topoMaite Alberdi e Marcela SantibáñezTimeGarrett Bradley, Lauren Domino e Kellen Quinn 2021Summer of SoulQuestlove, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent e David DinersteinAscensionJessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy e Nathan TruesdellAtticaStanley Nelson e Traci A. CurryFleeJonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen e Charlotte De La GournerieWriting with FireRintu Thomas e Sushmit Ghosh


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