Giải Oscar cho phim tài liệu xuất sắc nhất

Dưới đây là danh sách các phim tài liệu đoạt giải Oscar. Năm ghi trong danh sách này là năm phát giải.

## Các phim đoạt giải và các phim được đề cử
 
### Thập niên 1940
Năm 1942, có một thể loại phim tài liệu và 4 phim đoạt giải. 
* 1942
** *[[The Battle of Midway]]*
** *[[Kokoda Front Line]]*
** *[[Moscow Strikes Back]]*
** *[[Prelude to War]]*
Từ năm 1943 chia ra 2 thể loại (phim tài liệu và phim tài liệu ngắn)
* 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 - không phát giải
* 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]]*

### Thập niên 1950
* 1950 - ***[[The Titan: Story of Michelangelo]]***
** *[[With These Hands]]*
* 1951 - ***[[Kon-Tiki (phim)|Kon-Tiki]]***
** *[[I Was a Communist for the FBI]]*
* 1952 - ***[[The Sea Around Us (phim)|The Sea Around Us]]***
** *[[The Hoaxters]]*
** *[[Navajo (phim)|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]]*** (cũng được biết dưới tên *The Unconquered*)
** *[[Crèvecoeur (phim)|Crèvecoeur]]*
* 1956 - ***[[The Silent World]]***
** *[[Where Mountains Float]]* (tiếng Đan Mạch:*Hvor bjergene sejler*)
** *[[The Naked Eye]]*
* 1957 - ***[[Albert Schweitzer (phim)|Albert Schweitzer]]***
** *[[On the Bowery]]*
** *[[Torero (phim)|Torero]]*
* 1958 - ***[[White Wilderness (phim)|White Wilderness]]***
** *[[Antarctic Crossing]]*
** *[[The Hidden World]]*
** *[[Psychiatric Nursing]]*
* 1959 - ***[[Serengeti Shall Not Die]]***
** *[[The Race for Space]]*

### Thập niên 1960
* 1960 - ***[[The Horse with the Flying Tail]]***
** *[[Rebel in Paradise]]*
* 1961 - ***[[Sky Above and Mud Beneath]]***, directed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
** *[[The Grand Olympics|La grande olimpiade]]*, directed by Romolo Marcellini
* 1962 - ***[[Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler]]***
** *[[Alvorada (phim)|Alvorada]]*
* 1963 - ***[[Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World]]***
** *[[The Link and the Chain|Le Maillon et la chaîne]]*
** *[[The Yanks Are Coming]]*
* 1964 - ***[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun]]***
** *[[14-18]]*
** *[[Alleman (phim)|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]]*
** *[[To Die in Madrid|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 (phim 1967)|Festival]]*
** *[[Harvest (phim)|Harvest]]*
** *[[A King's Story]]*
** *[[A Time for Burning]]*
* 1968 - ***[[Journey Into Self]]*** Ghi chú: Tại buổi lễ phát giải thứ 41 ngày 14.4.1969, phim * [[Young Americans (phim 1967)|Young Americans]]* đã được công bố thắng giải. Ngày 7.5.1969, phim này bị tuyên bố là không đủ tư cách vì bị phát hiện là đã được quay trong tháng 10 năm 1967, vì thế không đủ tư cách để được trúng giải năm 1968. Phim về nhì *Journey Into Self*, đã được trúng giải và được phát tượng ngày 8.5.1969.
** *[[A Few Notes on Our Food Problem]]*
** *[[Legendary Champions]]*
** *[[Other Voices (phim 1970)|Other Voices]]*
* 1969 - ***[[Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life]]***
** *[[Before the Mountain Was Moved]]*
** *[[In the Year of the Pig]]*
** *[[The Olympics in Mexico|Olimpiada en México]]*
** *[[The Wolf Men]]*

### Thập niên 1970
* 1970 - ***[[Woodstock (phim)|Woodstock]]***
** *[[Chariots of the Gods (phim)|Erinnerungen an die Zukunft]]*
** *[[Jack Johnson (phim)|Jack Johnson]]*
** **'
** ''[[Say Goodbye (phim)|Say Goodbye]]''
* 1971 - ***[[The Hellstrom Chronicle]]***
** ''[[Alaska Wilderness Lake]]''
** ''[[The Sorrow and the Pity|Le chagrin et la pitié]]''
** ''[[On Any Sunday]]''
** ''[[Ra (phim)|Ra]]''
* 1972 - ***[[Marjoe]]***
** ''[[Ape and Super-Ape|Bij de beesten af]]''
** ''[[Malcolm X (phim 1972)|Malcolm X]]''
** ''[[Manson (phim)|Manson]]''
** ''[[The Silent Revolution]]''
* 1973 - ***[[The Great American Cowboy]]***
** ''[[Always a New Beginning]]''
** ''[[Journey to the Outer Limits]]''
** ''[[Battle of Berlin (phim)|Schlacht um Berlin]]''
** ''[[Walls of Fire]]''
* 1974 - ***[[Hearts and Minds (phim)|Hearts and Minds]]***
** **'
** *[[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 (phim)|Fighting for Our Lives]]*
** *[[The Incredible Machine (phim)|The Incredible Machine]]*
** *[[The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir]]*
* 1976 - ***[[Harlan County, USA]]***
** *[[Hollywood on Trial]]*
** *[[Off the Edge]]*
** *[[People of the Wind]]*
** **'
* 1977 - ***[[Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?]]***
** ''[[The Children of Theatre Street]]''
** ''[[High Grass Circus]]''
** ''[[Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love]]''
** ''[[Union Maids]]''
* 1978 - ***[[Scared Straight!]]***
** ''[[Mysterious Castles of Clay]]''
** ''[[Raoni]]''
** ''[[The Lovers' Wind|Le vent des amoureux]]''
** ''[[With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade]]''
* 1979 - ***[[Best Boy (phim)|Best Boy]]***
** ''[[Generation on the Wind]]''
** ''[[Going the Distance (phim 1979)|Going the Distance]]''
** ''[[The Killing Ground]]''
** ''[[The War at Home (phim 1979)|The War at Home]]''

=== Thập niên 1980 ===
* ***1980 [[From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China]]*** directed by [[Murray Lerner]]
** ''[[Agee (phim)|Agee]]''
** ''[[The Day After Trinity]]''
** ''[[Front Line (phim 1981)|Front Line]]''
** ''[[The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45]]''
* ***1981 [[Genocide (phim)|Genocide]]*** directed by [[Arnold Schwartzman]]
** ''[[Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey]]''
** ''[[Brooklyn Bridge (phim)|Brooklyn Bridge]]''
** ''[[Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott]]''
** ''[[El Salvador: Another Vietnam]]''
* ***1982 [[Just Another Missing Kid]]*** directed by [[John Zaritsky]]
** ''[[A Portrait of Giselle]]''
** ''[[After the Axe]]''
** ''[[Ben's Mill]]''
** ''[[In Our Water]]''
* ***1983 [[He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin']]*** directed by [[Emile Ardolino]]
** ''[[Children of Darkness]]''
** ''[[First Contact (documentary)|First Contact]]''
** ''[[The Profession of Arms (phim 1983)|The Profession of Arms]]''
** ''[[Seeing Red (phim)|Seeing Red]]''
* ***1984 [[The Times of Harvey Milk]]*** directed by [[Robert Epstein]] và [[Richard Schmiechen]]
** ''[[High Schools (phim)|High Schools]]''
** ''[[In the Name of the People]]''
** ''[[Marlene (phim 1984)|Marlene]]''
** ''[[Streetwise (phim 1984)|Streetwise]]''
* ***1985 [[Broken Rainbow]]*** directed by [[Maria Florio]] và [[Victoria Mudd]]
** ''[[The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo]]''
** ''[[Soldiers in Hiding]]''
** ''[[The Statue of Liberty (phim)|The Statue of Liberty]]''
** ''[[Unfinished Business (phim 1985)|Unfinished Business]]''
* ***1986 - (tie): [[Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got]]*** and  ***[[Down and Out in America]]***
** **'
** *[[Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer]]*
** *[[Witness to Apartheid]]*
* ***1987 [[The Ten-Year Lunch]]***
** *[[Eyes on the Prize]]*
** **'
** ''[[Radio Bikini]]''
** ''[[A Stitch for Time]]''
* ***1988  [[Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie]]***
** ''[[The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude - An Afrikaner Speaks Out]]''
** ''[[Let's Get Lost (phim)|Let's Get Lost]]''
** ''[[Promises to Keep (phim)|Promises to Keep]]''
** ''[[Who Killed Vincent Chin?]]''
* ***1989 [[Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt]]***
** ''[[Adam Clayton Powell (phim)|Adam Clayton Powell]]''
** ''[[Crack USA: County Under Siege]]''
** ''[[For All Mankind]]''
** ''[[Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren]]''

=== Thập niên 1990 ===

* ***1990 [[American Dream (phim)|American Dream]]*** directed by [[Barbara Kopple]]''
** ''[[Berkeley in the Sixties]]''
** ''[[Building Bombs]]''
** ''[[Forever Activists|Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade]]''
** ''[[Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey]]''
* ***1991 [[In the Shadow of the Stars]]*** directed by [[Allie Light]] và [[Irving Saraf]]
** ''[[Death on the Job]]''
** ''[[Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House]]''
** ''[[The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945]]''
** ''[[Wild by Law]]''
* ***1992 [[The Panama Deception]]*** directed by [[Barbara Trent]] và [[David Kasper]]
** ''[[Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker]]''
** ''[[Fires of Kuwait]]''
** **'
** *[[Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann]]*
* ***1993 [[I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School]]*** directed by Susan Raymond
** *[[The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter]]*
** *[[Children of Fate]]*
** *[[For Better or For Worse (phim)|For Better or For Worse]]*
** *[[The War Room]]*
* ***1994 [[Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision]]*** directed by Freida Lee Mock
** *[[Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter]]*
** *[[D-Day Remembered]]*
** *[[Freedom on My Mind]]*
** *[[A Great Day in Harlem (phim)|A Great Day in Harlem]]*
* ***1995 [[Anne Frank Remembered]]*** directed by Jon Blair
** *[[The Battle Over Citizen Kane]]*
** *[[Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream]]*
** *[[Small Wonders]]*
** *[[Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern]]*
* ***1996 [[When We Were Kings]]*** directed by Leon Gast
** *[[The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story]]*
** *[[Mandela (phim)|Mandela]]*
** *[[Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse]]*
** *[[Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press]]*
* ***1997 [[The Long Way Home (phim 1997)|The Long Way Home]]*** directed by Mark Jonathan Harris
** *[[Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life]]*
** *[[Colors Straight Up]]*
** *[[4 Little Girls]]*
** **'
* ***1998 [[The Last Days]]*** directed by [[James Moll]]
** ''[[The Dancemaker]]''
** ''[[The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.]]''
** ''[[Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth]]''
** ''[[Regret to Inform]]''
* ***1999 [[One Day in September]]*** by [[Kevin Macdonald (director)|Kevin MacDonald]]
** ''[[Buena Vista Social Club (phim)|Buena Vista Social Club]]''
** ''[[Genghis Blues]]''
** ''[[On the Ropes]]''
** ''[[Speaking in Strings]]''

===Thập niên 2000===
**2000: *[[Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport]]* – Mark Jonathan Harris và Deborah Oppenheimer
* *[[Legacy (phim 2000)|Legacy]]* – Tod Lending
* *[[Long Night's Journey into Day]]* – Deborah Hoffmann và Frances Reid
* **' – [[Daniel Anker]] và [[Barak Goodman]]
* ''[[Sound and Fury]]'' – [[Josh Aronson]] và [[Roger Weisberg]]

**2001: *[[Murder on a Sunday Morning|Murder on a Sunday Morning (Un coupable idéal)]]* – Jean-Xavier de Lestrade và Denis Poncet
* *[[Children Underground]]* – Edet Belzberg
* *[[LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton]]* – Deborah Dickson và Susan Frömke
* *[[Promises (phim)|Promises]]* – B.Z. Goldberg và Justine Shapiro
* *[[War Photographer]]* – Christian Frei

**2002: ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'' – [[Michael Donovan]] và [[Michael Moore]]
* ''[[Daughter from Danang]]'' – [[Gail Dolgin]] và [[Vicente Franco]]
* ''[[Prisoner of Paradise]]'' – [[Malcolm Clarke]] và [[Stuart Sender]]
* ''[[Spellbound (documentary)|Spellbound]]'' – [[Jeffrey Blitz]] và [[Sean Welch]]
* ''[[Le Peuple migrateur|Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur)]]'' – [[Jacques Perrin]]

***2003 [[The Fog of War]]*** directed by [[Errol Morris]]
* ''[[Balseros]]''
* ''[[Capturing the Friedmans]]''
* ''[[My Architect]]''
* ''[[The Weather Underground]]''

**2004: *[[Born into Brothels]]* – Ross Kauffman và Zana Briski
* *[[The Story of the Weeping Camel|The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel)]]* – Byambasuren Davaa và Luigi Falorni
* *[[Super Size Me]]* – Morgan Spurlock
* **' – [[Karolyn Ali]] và [[Lauren Lazin]]
* ''[[Twist of Faith]]'' – [[Kirby Dick]] và [[Eddie Schmidt]]

**2005: *[[March of the Penguins|March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur)]]* – Luc Jacquet
* *[[Darwin's Nightmare]]* – Hubert Sauper
* **' – [[Alex Gibney]] và [[Jason Kliot]]
* ''[[Murderball (documentary)|Murderball]]'' – [[Henry Alex Rubin]] và [[Dana Adam Shapiro]]
* ''[[Street Fight (phim)|Street Fight]]'' – [[Marshall Curry]]

**2006: *[[An Inconvenient Truth]]* – Davis Guggenheim
* *[[Deliver Us from Evil (phim 2006)|Deliver Us from Evil]]* – Amy Berg và Frank Donner
* *[[Iraq in Fragments]]* – James Longley và Yahya Sinno
* *[[Jesus Camp]]* – Heidi Ewing và Rachel Grady
* *[[My Country, My Country]]* – Jocelyn Glatzer và Laura Poitras

**2007: ***[[Taxi to the Dark Side]]*** – [[Alex Gibney]] và [[Eva Orner]]
* ''[[No End in Sight]]'' – [[Charles Ferguson]] và [[Audrey Marrs]]
* ''[[Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience]]'' – [[Richard Robbins]]
* ''[[Sicko]]'' – [[Michael Moore]] và [[Meghan O'Hara]]
* ''[[War/Dance]]'' – [[Sean Fine]] và [[Andrea Nix]]

**2008: 
* *[[Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)|The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)]]* – Ellen Kuras và Thavisouk Phrasavath
* *[[Encounters at the End of the World]]* – Werner Herzog và Henry Kaiser
* *[[The Garden (phim 2008)|The Garden]]* – Scott Hamilton Kennedy
* *[[Man on Wire]]* – Simon Chinn và James Marsh
* *[[Trouble the Water]]* – Carl Deal và Tia Lessin

**2009: ***[[The Cove (phim)|The Cove]]*** &ndash; **Louie Psihoyos và Fisher Stevens**
** ''[[Burma VJ]]'' &ndash; Anders Østergaard và Lise Lense-Møller
** ''[[Food, Inc.]]'' &ndash; Robert Kenner và Elise Pearlstein
** ''[[The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers]]'' &ndash; Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
** ''[[Which Way Home]]'' &ndash; Rebecca Cammisa

===Thập niên 2010===

**2010: ***[[Inside Job (film)|Inside Job]]''  – [[Charles H. Ferguson]] và [[Audrey Marrs]]'''
** ''[[Exit Through the Gift Shop]]'' – [[Banksy]] và [[Jaimie D'Cruz]]
** ''[[Gasland]]'' – [[Josh Fox]] and Trish Adlesic
** ''[[Restrepo (film)|Restrepo]]'' – [[Tim Hetherington]] và [[Sebastian Junger]]
** ''[[Waste Land (film)|Waste Land]]'' – [[Lucy Walker (director)|Lucy Walker]] and Angus Aynsley
*'''2011: ***Undefeated*  – [[TJ Martin]], [[Dan Lindsay]] và [[Richard Middlemas]]*'
** *[[Hell and Back Again]]* – Danfung Dennis và Mike Lerner
** *[[If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front]]* – Marshall Curry và Sam Cullman
** *[[Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory]]* – Joe Berlinger và Bruce Sinofsky
** *[[Pina (film)|Pina]]* – Wim Wenders và Gian-Piero Ringel
***2012: ***[[Searching for Sugar Man]]*  – Malik Bendjelloul và Simon Chinn*'
** *5 Broken Cameras* – Emad Burnat and [[Guy Davidi]]
** *The Gatekeepers* - [[Dror Moreh]], Philippa Kowarsky, and Estelle Fialon
** *How to Survive a Plague* - [[David France (writer)|David France]] and Howard Gertler
** *The Invisible War'' - Kirby Dick và Amy Ziering

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