Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most important awards for documentary movies.
Winners and nominees
1940s
In 1942, there was one Documentary category and four winners.
1942
The Battle of Midway
Kokoda Front Line!
Moscow Strikes Back
Prelude to War
From 1943 there were two separate documentary categories (features and short films)
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 - none given
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
1950s
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 (also known as The Unconquered)
Crevecoeur
1956 - The Silent World
Where Mountains Float ()
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
From Generation to Generation
1960s
1960 - The Horse with the Flying Tail
Rebel in Paradise
1961 - Sky Above and Mud Beneath, directed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
La grande olimpiade, directed by Romolo Marcellini
1962 - Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
Alvorada
1963 - Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
Le Maillon et la chaine
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 a 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
Note: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, it was revealed that the film had played in October 1967, which rendered it ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey Into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.
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 Mexico
The Wolf Men
1970s
1970 - Woodstock
Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (Released in English language version under title "Chariots of the Gods?")
Jack Johnson
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Say Goodbye
1971 - The Hellstrom Chronicle
Alaska Wilderness Lake
Le chagrin et la pitie
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
Hollywood on Trial
Off the Edge
People of the Wind
Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
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
Le vent des amoureux
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
1979 - Best Boy
Generation on the Wind
Going the Distance
The Killing Ground
The War at Home
1980s
1980 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China directed by Murray Lerner
Agee
The Day After Trinity
Front Line
The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45
1981 Genocide directed by Arnold Schwartzman
Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey
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
The Profession of Arms
Seeing Red
1984 The Times of Harvey Milk directed by Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen
High Schools
In the Name of the People
Marlene
Streetwise
1985 Broken Rainbow directed by Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Soldiers in Hiding
The Statue of Liberty
Unfinished Business
1986 - (tie): Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got and Down and Out in America
Chile: Hasta Cuando?
Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
Witness to Apartheid
1987 The Ten-Year Lunch
Eyes on the Prize
Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
Radio Bikini
A Stitch for Time
1988 Hotel 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
Adam Clayton Powell
Crack USA: County Under Siege
For All Mankind
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
1990s
1990 American Dream directed by Barbara Kopple
Berkeley in the Sixties
Building Bombs
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 and 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 and David Kasper
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
Fires of Kuwait
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
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
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
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
Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
1997 The Long Way Home directed by Mark Jonathan Harris
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
Colors Straight Up
4 Little Girls
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
1998 The Last Days directed by James Moll
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
Buena Vista Social Club
Genghis Blues
On the Ropes
Speaking in Strings
2000s
2000: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport - Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer
Legacy - Tod Lending
Long Night's Journey into Day - Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy - Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman
Sound and Fury - Josh Aronson and Roger Weisberg
2001: Murder on a Sunday Morning (Un coupable ideal) - Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet
Children Underground - Edet Belzberg
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton - Deborah Dickson and Susan Fromke
Promises - B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro
War Photographer - Christian Frei
2002: Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
Daughter from Danang - Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco
Prisoner of Paradise - Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender
Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur) - Jacques Perrin
2003: The Fog of War - Errol Morris and Michael Williams
Balseros - Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech
Capturing the Friedmans - Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
My Architect - Nathaniel Kahn and Susan R. Behr
The Weather Underground - Sam Green and Bill Siegel
2004: Born into Brothels - Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel) - Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni
Super Size Me - Morgan Spurlock
Tupac: Resurrection - Karolyn Ali and Lauren Lazin
Twist of Faith - Kirby Dick and Eddie Schmidt
2005: March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur) - Luc Jacquet
Darwin's Nightmare - Hubert Sauper
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot
Murderball - Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
Street Fight - Marshall Curry
2006: An Inconvenient Truth - Davis Guggenheim
Deliver Us from Evil - Amy Berg and Frank Donner and Matthew Cooke
Iraq in Fragments - James Longley and Yahya Sinno
Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
My Country, My Country - Jocelyn Glatzer and Laura Poitras
2007: Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
No End in Sight - Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience - Richard Robbins
Sicko - Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
War/Dance - Sean Fine and Andrea Nix
2008: Man on Wire - Simon Chinn and James Marsh
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) - Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
The Garden - Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Trouble the Water - Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
2009: The Cove - Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
Burma VJ - Anders Ostergaard and Lise Lense-Moller
Food, Inc. - Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home - Rebecca Cammisa
2010s
2010: Inside Job - Charles H. Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Exit Through the Gift Shop - Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz
Gasland - Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
Restrepo - Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land - Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley
2011: Undefeated - TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Hell and Back Again - Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front - Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory - Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Pina - Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
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