En İyi Belgesel Film Akademi Ödülü
2010'lar

2010 : Inside Job – Charles H. Ferguson ve Audrey Marrs
Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy ve Jaimie D'Cruz
Gasland – Josh Fox ve Trish Adlesic
Restrepo – Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land – Lucy Walker ve Angus Aynsley
2011 : Undefeated – TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay ve Richard Middlemas
Hell and Back Again – Danfung Dennis ve Mike Lerner
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – Marshall Curry ve Sam Cullman
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – Joe Berlinger ve Bruce Sinofsky
Pina – Wim Wenders ve Gian-Piero Ringel
2012 : Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul ve Simon Chinn
5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat ve Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers - Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky ve Estelle Fialon
How to Survive a Plague - David France ve Howard Gertler
The Invisible War - Kirby Dick ve Amy Ziering
2013: 20 Feet from Stardom - Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen ve Cveaitrin Rogers
The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer ve Signe Byre Sorenson
Cutie and The Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling ve Kydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars – Richard Rowley ve Jeremy Scahill
The Square – Jehane Nouaim ve Karim Amer
2014 : Citizenfour - Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy ve Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier – John Mallof ve Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy ve Kevin McAlester
The Salt of The Eart – Win Wnders, Julianı Ribeiro Salgado ve David Rosier
Virunga – Orlando Won Einsiedel ve Joanna Natasegara
2015 Amy - Asif Kapadia ve James Gay Ress
Cartel Land – Matthew Heineman ve Tom Yellin
The Look Of Silence – Joshua Oppenheimer ve Signe Byre Sorenson
What Happened, Miss Simone? – Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby ve Justin Wilkes
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom – Evgeny Afineevsky ve Den Tolmor
2016 O.J.: Made in America - Ezra Edelman ve Caroline Waterlow
Fire at Sea - Gianfranco Rosi ve Donatella Palermo
I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety ve Hébert Peck
Life, Animated - Roger Ross Williams ve Julie Goldman
13th	Ava DuVernay, - Spencer Averick ve Howard Barish
| Yıl | Film | Adaylar |
| --- | --- | --- |

2017 (90.)   : 
| 2017 (90.)    | Icarus | Bryan Fogel ve Dan Cogan |
| 2017 (90.)    | Abacus: Small Enough to Jail | Steve James, Mark Mitten ve Julie Goldman |
| 2017 (90.)    | Faces Places | Agnès Varda, JR ve Rosalie Varda |
| 2017 (90.)    | Last Men in Aleppo | Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed ve Søren Steen Jespersen |
| 2017 (90.)    | Strong Island | Yance Ford ve Joslyn Barnes |
2018 (91.): 
| 2018 (91.) | Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes ve Shannon Dill [de] |
| 2018 (91.) | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes ve Su Kim |
| 2018 (91.) | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu ve Diane Quon |
| 2018 (91.) | Of Fathers and Sons | Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich [de], Eva Kemme [de] ve Tobias N. Siebert [de] |
| 2018 (91.) | RBG | Betsy West ve Julie Cohen [de; fr; pt] |
2019 (92.): 
| 2019 (92.) | American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert ve Jeff Reichert |
| 2019 (92.) | The Cave | Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod [de] ve Sigrid Dyekjær [da; de] |
| 2019 (92.) | The Edge of Democracy | Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris ve Tiago Pavan [pt] |
| 2019 (92.) | For Sama | Waad al-Kateab ve Edward Watts |
| 2019 (92.) | Honeyland | Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska ve Atanas Georgiev |