# รางวัลออสการ์ สาขาภาพยนตร์สารคดียอดเยี่ยม
รางวัลออสการ์ สาขาภาพยนตร์สารคดียอดเยี่ยม เป็นหนึ่งในรางวัลออสการ์โดยสถาบันศิลปะและวิชาการทางภาพยนตร์ที่มอบให้กับภาพยนตร์สารคดี รางวัลนี้มีการมอบครั้งแรกในปีค.ศ. 1942 และมีการแบ่งประเภทเป็นภาพยนตร์สารคดี และภาพยนตร์สารคดีขนาดสั้น ในปีค.ศ. 1943

 ภาพยนตร์สารคดีที่ได้รับรางวัลและได้รับการเสนอชื่อเข้าชิง 
1940s
ปี 1942 มีภาพยนตร์สารคดีที่ได้รับรางวัล 4 เรื่อง
1942 -ชนะ:
The Battle of Midway
Kokoda Front Line!
Moscow Strikes Back
Prelude to War
มีชื่อเช้าชิง:
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

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)
 Crèvecoeur
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

1960s
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center"| 1960<small>(33rd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|The Horse with the Flying Tail|Larry Lansburgh
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|Rebel in Paradise
|Robert D. Fraser
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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center"| 1961(34th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Sky Above and Mud Beneath|Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau|
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|La grande olimpiade
|Romolo Marcellini
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|-
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center"| 1962<small>(35th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler|Louis Clyde Stoumen|
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|Alvorada
|Hugo Niebeling
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center"| 1963(36th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World|Shirley Clarke|
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|Le Maillon et la chaîne
|Jacques Ertaud and Bernard Gorki
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|The Yanks Are Coming
|Marshall Flaum
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|-
|Note: Originally Terminus was announced as one of the nominees, but it was subsequently discovered that the film was first released prior to the eligibility period, and thus the nomination was withdrawn.
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1964<small>(37th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|World Without Sun|Jacques-Yves Cousteau| / 
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|14-18
|Jean Aurel
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|Alleman
|Bert Haanstra
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|-
|The Finest Hours
|Peter Baylis
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|-
|Four Days in November
|Mel Stuart
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|-
|}

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''

1970s
 Year Film Director(s) Country 1970(43rd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Woodstock|Michael Wadleigh
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|-
|Chariots of the Gods
|Harald Reinl
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|-
|Jack Johnson
|Jimmy Jacobs
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|-
|King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
|Ely Landau
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|-
|Say Goodbye
| David H. Vowell
|
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1971<small>(44th)The Hellstrom ChronicleWalon GreenAlaska Wilderness LakeAlan LandsburgThe Sorrow and the PityMarcel OphülsOn Any SundayBruce BrownRaLennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl /  1972(45th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Marjoe|Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan|
|-
|Ape and Super-Ape
|Bert Haanstra
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|-
|Malcolm X
|Arnold Perl
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|-
|Manson
|Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick
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|-
|The Silent Revolution
|Eckehard Munck
|
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1973<small>(46th)The Great American CowboyKieth MerrillAlways a New BeginningJohn D. GoodellJourney to the Outer LimitsAlexander GrasshoffBattle of BerlinFranz Baake and Jost von MorrWalls of FireHerbert Kline and Edmund Penney 1974(47th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Hearts and Minds|Peter Davis|
|-
|Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
|Judy Collins and Jill Godmilow
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|-
|The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
|Herbert Kline
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|-
|The 81st Blow
|Haim Gouri
|
|-
|The Wild and the Brave
|Eugene S. Jones
|
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1975<small>(48th)The Man Who Skied Down EverestF. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale HartlebeThe California ReichKeith Critchlow and Walter F. ParkesFighting for Our LivesGlen PearcyThe Incredible MachineIrwin Rosten and Ed SpiegelThe Other Half of the Sky: A China MemoirShirley MacLaine and Claudia Weill 1976(49th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Harlan County, USA|Barbara Kopple|
|-
|Hollywood on Trial
|David Helpern
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|-
|Off the Edge
|Michael Firth
|
|-
|People of the Wind
|Anthony Howarth and David Koff
|
|-
|Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
|Donald Brittain and John Kramer
|
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1977<small>(50th)Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?John KortyThe Children of Theatre StreetRobert Dornhelm and Earle MackHigh Grass CircusTony Ianzelo and Torben SchiolerHomage to Chagall: The Colours of LoveHarry RaskyUnion MaidsJim Klein, Miles Mogulescu and Julia Reichert 1978(51st)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Scared Straight!|Arnold Shapiro|
|-
|Mysterious Castles of Clay
|Joan Root and Alan Root
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|-
|Raoni
|Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Luiz Carlos Saldanha
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|-
|Le vent des amoureux
|Albert Lamorisse
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|-
|With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
|Lorraine Gray
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|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1979<small>(52nd)Best BoyIra WohlGeneration on the WindDavid VassarGoing the DistancePaul CowanThe Killing GroundSteve SingerThe War at HomeGlenn Silber

1980s

 Year Film Name(s) 1980<small>(53rd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China|Murray LernerAgeeRoss SpearsThe Day After TrinityJon ElseFront Line David BradburyThe Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 Dieter Hildebrandt 1981<small>(54th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Genocide|Arnold Schwartzman|-
|Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey
|John Brousek
|-
|Brooklyn Bridge
|Ken Burns
|-
|Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott
|Mary Benjamin	
|-
|El Salvador: Another Vietnam
|Glenn Silber
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1982(55th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Just Another Missing Kid|John Zaritsky|-
|A Portrait of Giselle
|Muriel Balash
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|After the Axe
|Sturla Gunnarsson
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|Ben's Mill
|Michel Chalufour and John Karol
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|In Our Water
|Meg Switzgable
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1983<small>(56th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'|Emile Ardolino|-
|Children of Darkness
|Ara Chekmayan and Richard Kotuk
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|First Contact
|Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly
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|The Profession of Arms
|Michael Bryans and Tina Viljoen
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|Seeing Red
|Jim Klein and Julia Reichert
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1984(57th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|The Times of Harvey Milk|Rob Epstein|-
|High Schools
|Charles Guggenheim
|-
|In the Name of the People
|Frank Christopher
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|Marlene
|Maximilian Schell
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|Streetwise
|Martin Bell
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1985<small>(58th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Broken Rainbow|Maria Floria and Victoria Mudd	
|-
|The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
|Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo
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|Soldiers in Hiding
|Malcolm Clarke	
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|The Statue of Liberty|Ken Burns
|-
|Unfinished Business|Steven Okazaki
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1986(59th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (tie)
|Brigitte Berman|-
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Down and Out in America (tie)
|Joseph Feury and Milton Justice|-
|Chile: Hasta Cuando?
|David Bradbury	
|-
|Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
|Amram Nowak
|-
|Witness to Apartheid
|Sharon I. Sopher
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1987<small>(60th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|The Ten-Year Lunch|Aviva Slesin|-
|Eyes on the Prize
|Henry Hampton
|-
|Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
|Michael Camerini, John Junkerman and James MacDonald
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|Radio Bikini
|Robert Stone
|-
|A Stitch for Time
|Nigel Noble
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1988(61st)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie|Marcel Ophüls	
|-
|The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out
|Robert Bilheimer
|-
|Let's Get Lost
|Bruce Weber
|-
|Promises to Keep
|Ginny Durrin
|-
|Who Killed Vincent Chin?
| Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 1989<small>(62nd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt|Rob Epstein and Bill Couturié'''
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|Adam Clayton Powell|Richard Kilberg
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|Crack USA: County Under Siege|Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag
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|For All Mankind|Al Reinert
|-
|Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren''Judith Leonard and Bill Jersey

1990s

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

2000s

 Year Film Name(s) 2000(73rd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|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
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2001<small>(74th)Murder on a Sunday MorningJean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis PoncetChildren UndergroundEdet BelzbergLaLee's Kin: The Legacy of CottonDeborah Dickson and Susan FrömkePromisesB.Z. Goldberg and Justine ShapiroWar PhotographerChristian Frei 2002(75th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Bowling for Columbine|Michael Moore and Michael Donovan|-
|Daughter from Danang
|Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco
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|Prisoner of Paradise
|Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender
|-
|Spellbound
|Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch
|-
|Winged Migration
|Jacques Perrin
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2003<small>(76th)The Fog of WarErrol Morris and Michael WilliamsBalserosCarlos Bosch and Josep Maria DomenechCapturing the FriedmansAndrew Jarecki and Marc SmerlingMy ArchitectNathaniel Kahn and Susan R. BehrThe Weather UndergroundSam Green and Bill Siegel 2004(77th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Born into Brothels|Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski|-
|The Story of the Weeping Camel
|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
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2005<small>(78th)March of the PenguinsLuc Jacquet and Yves DarondeauDarwin's NightmareHubert SauperEnron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomAlex Gibney and Jason KliotMurderballHenry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam ShapiroStreet FightMarshall Curry 2006(79th)An Inconvenient TruthDavis GuggenheimDeliver Us from EvilAmy Berg, Frank Donner, and Matthew CookeIraq in FragmentsJames Longley and Yahya SinnoJesus CampHeidi Ewing and Rachel GradyMy Country, My CountryJocelyn Glatzer and Laura Poitras 2007(80th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|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 Fine
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 2008<small>(81st)Man on WireSimon Chinn and James MarshThe Betrayal (Nerakhoon)Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk PhrasavathEncounters at the End of the WorldWerner Herzog and Henry KaiserThe GardenScott Hamilton KennedyTrouble the WaterCarl Deal and Tia Lessin 2009(82nd)The CoveLouie Psihoyos and Fisher StevensBurma VJAnders Østergaard and Lise Lense-MøllerFood, Inc.Robert Kenner and Elise PearlsteinThe Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon PapersJudith Ehrlich and Rick GoldsmithWhich Way HomeRebecca Cammisa

2010s

 Year Film Name(s) 2010(83rd)Inside JobCharles H. Ferguson and Audrey MarrsExit Through the Gift ShopBanksy and Jaimie D'CruzGaslandJosh Fox and Trish AdlesicRestrepoTim Hetherington and Sebastian JungerWaste LandLucy Walker and Angus Aynsley 2011(84th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|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
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2012<small>(85th)Searching for Sugar ManMalik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn5 Broken CamerasEmad Burnat and Guy DavidiThe GatekeepersDror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, and Estelle FialonHow to Survive a PlagueDavid France and Howard GertlerThe Invisible WarKirby Dick and Amy Ziering 2013(86th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|20 Feet from Stardom|Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers|-
|The Act of Killing
|Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
|-
|Cutie and the Boxer
|Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
|-
|Dirty Wars
|Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
|-
|The Square
|Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2014<small>(87th)CitizenfourLaura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy  and Dirk WilutzkyFinding Vivian MaierJohn Maloof and Charlie SiskelLast Days in VietnamRory Kennedy and Kevin McAlesterThe Salt of the EarthWim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David RosierVirungaOrlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara 2015(88th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|Amy|Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees|-
|Cartel Land 
| Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
|-
|The Look of Silence
| Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
|-
|What Happened, Miss Simone?
| Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
|-
|Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
| Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2016<small>(89th)O.J.: Made in AmericaEzra Edelman และ Caroline WaterlowFire at Sea  Gianfranco Rosi และ Donatella PalermoI Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety และ Hébert PeckLife, Animated Roger Ross Williams และ Julie Goldman13th Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick และ Howard Barish 2017(90th)   Icarus Bryan Fogel และ Dan Cogan Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman Faces Places Agnès Varda, JR และ Rosalie Varda Last Men in Aleppo Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed และ Søren Steen Jespersen Strong Island Yance Ford และ Joslyn Barnes 2018(91st) Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes และ Shannon Dill Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes และ Su Kim Minding the GapBing Liu และ Diane Quon Of Fathers and Sons Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme และ Tobias N. Siebert RBG Betsy West and Julie Cohen 2019(92nd) American Factory Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert และ Jeff Reichert The Cave Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod และ Sigrid Dyekjær The Edge of DemocracyPetra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris และ Tiago Pavan For Sama Waad al-Kateab และ Edward Watts Honeyland Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska และ Atanas Georgiev

 2020s 

 Year Film Nominees 2020/21My Octopus TeacherPippa Ehrlich, James Reed และ Craig FosterCollectiveAlexander Nanau และ Bianca OanaCrip CampNicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht และ Sara BolderThe Mole AgentMaite Alberdi และ Marcela SantibáñezTimeGarrett Bradley, Lauren Domino และ Kellen Quinn 2021Summer of SoulQuestlove, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent และ David DinersteinAscensionJessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy และ Nathan TruesdellAtticaStanley Nelson และ Traci A. CurryFleeJonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen และ Charlotte De La GournerieWriting with FireRintu Thomas และ Sushmit Ghosh 2022NavalnyDaniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller และ Shane Boris All That Breathes Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann และ Teddy LeiferAll the Beauty and the BloodshedLaura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin และ Yoni GolijovFire of LoveSara Dosa, Shane Boris และ Ina FichmanA House Made of SplintersSimon Lereng Wilmont และ Monica Hellström