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| Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1942 |
| Most recent winner | Pippa Ehrlich James Reed Craig Foster My Octopus Teacher (2020) |
| Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most important awards for documentary movies.
Winners and nominees[change | change source]
1940s[change | change source]
In 1942, there was one Documentary category and four winners.
From 1943 there were two separate documentary categories (features and short films)
- 1943 - Desert Victory
- 1944 - The Fighting Lady
- 1945 - The True Glory
- 1946 - none given
- 1947 - Design for Death
- 1948 - The Secret Land
- 1949 - Daybreak in Udi
1950s[change | change source]
- 1950 - The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
- 1951 - Kon-Tiki
- 1952 - The Sea Around Us
- 1953 - The Living Desert
- 1954 - The Vanishing Prairie
- 1955 - Helen Keller in Her Story (also known as The Unconquered)
- 1956 - The Silent World
- Where Mountains Float (Danish: Hvor bjergene sejler)
- The Naked Eye
- 1957 - Albert Schweitzer
- 1958 - White Wilderness
- 1959 - Serengeti Shall Not Die
1960s[change | change source]
- 1960 - The Horse with the Flying Tail
- 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
- 1963 - Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
- 1964 - World Without Sun
- 1965 - The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
- 1966 - The War Game
- 1967 - The Anderson Platoon
- 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.
- 1969 - Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
1970s[change | change source]
- 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
- 1972 - Marjoe
- 1973 - The Great American Cowboy
- 1974 - Hearts and Minds
- 1975 - The Man Who Skied Down Everest
- 1976 - Harlan County, USA
- 1977 - Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
- 1978 - Scared Straight!
- 1979 - Best Boy
1980s[change | change source]
- 1980 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China directed by Murray Lerner
- 1981 Genocide directed by Arnold Schwartzman
- 1982 Just Another Missing Kid directed by John Zaritsky
- 1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' directed by Emile Ardolino
- 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk directed by Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen
- 1985 Broken Rainbow directed by Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd
- 1986 - (tie): Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got and Down and Out in America
- 1987 The Ten-Year Lunch
- 1988 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
- 1989 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1990s[change | change source]
- 1990 American Dream directed by Barbara Kopple
- 1991 In the Shadow of the Stars directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf
- 1992 The Panama Deception directed by Barbara Trent and David Kasper
- 1993 I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School directed by Susan Raymond
- 1994 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision directed by Freida Lee Mock
- 1995 Anne Frank Remembered directed by Jon Blair
- 1996 When We Were Kings directed by Leon Gast
- 1997 The Long Way Home directed by Mark Jonathan Harris
- 1998 The Last Days directed by James Moll
- 1999 One Day in September by Kevin MacDonald
2000s[change | change source]
- 2000: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport – Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer
- 2001: Murder on a Sunday Morning (Un coupable idéal) – Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet
- 2002: Bowling for Columbine – Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
- 2003: The Fog of War – Errol Morris and Michael Williams
- 2004: Born into Brothels – Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
- 2005: March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur) – Luc Jacquet
- 2006: An Inconvenient Truth – Davis Guggenheim
- 2007: Taxi to the Dark Side – Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
- 2008: Man on Wire – Simon Chinn and James Marsh
- 2009: The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
- Burma VJ – Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
- 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[change | change source]
- 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