Best Documentary Feature

My Octopus Teacher, winner 2019.

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature is the Academy Award for the best nonfiction motion pitcture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be photograhed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.

Nominees and winners

1940s

14th Academy Awards (1941)

Winner

SPECIAL AWARD:

• To Rey Scott for his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions.
• To The British Ministry of Information for its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film, Target for Tonight.

16th Academy Awards (1943)

Winner

Desert Victory — British Ministry of Information

Nominees

Baptism of Fire — United States Army

The Battle of Russia — United States Department of War Special Service Division

Report from the Aleutians — United States Army Pictorial Service

War Department Report — United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau

17th Academy Awards (1944)

Winner

The Fighting Lady — United States Navy

Nominees

Resisting Enemy Interrogation — United States Army Air Force

18th Academy Awards (1945)

Winner

The True Glory — The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America

Nominees

The Last Bomb — United States Army Air Force

20th Academy Awards (1947)

Winner

Design for Death — Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard O. Fleischer

Nominees

Journey into Medicine — United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange

The World Is Rich — Paul Rotha

21st Academy Awards (1948)

Winner

The Secret Land — Orville O. Dull

Nominees

The Quiet One — Janice Loeb

22nd Academy Awards (1949)

Winner

Daybreak in Udi — Crown Film Unit

Nominees

Kenji Comes Home — Paul F. Heard

1950s

23rd Academy Awards (1950)

Winner

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo — Robert Snyder

Nominees

With These Hands — Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman

24th Academy Awards (1951)

Winner

Kon-Tiki (1951) — Olle Nordemar

Nominees

I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. — Bryan Foy

25th Academy Awards (1952)

Winner

The Sea around Us — Irwin Allen

Nominees

The Hoaxters — Dore Schary

Navajo — Hall Bartlett

26th Academy Awards (1953)

Winner

The Living Desert — Walt Disney

Nominees

The Conquest of Everest — John Taylor, Leon Clore Grahame Tharp

A Queen Is Crowned — Castleton Knight

27th Academy Awards (1954)

Winner

The Vanishing Prairie — Walt Disney

Nominees

The Stratford Adventure — Guy Glover

28th Academy Awards (1955)

Winner

Helen Keller in Her Story — Nancy Hamilton

Nominees

Heartbreak Ridge (1955) — Rene Risacher

29th Academy Awards (1956)

Winner

The Silent World — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Nominees

The Naked Eye — Louis Clyde Stoumen

Where Mountains Float — The Government Film Committee of Denmark

30th Academy Awards (1957)

Winner

Albert Schweitzer — Jerome Hill

Nominees

On the Bowery — Lionel Rogosin

Torero! — Manuel Barbachano Ponce

31st Academy Awards (1958)

Winner

Albert Schweitzer — Ben Sharpsteen

Nominees

Antarctic Crossing — James Carr

The Hidden World — Robert Snyder

Psychiatric Nursing — Nathan Zucker

32nd Academy Awards (1959)

Winner

Serengeti Shall Not Die — Bernhard Grzimek

Nominees

The Race for Space — David L. Wolper

1960s

33rd Academy Awards (1960)

Winner

The Horse with the Flying Tail — Larry Lansburgh

Nominees

Rebel in Paradise — Robert D. Fraser

34th Academy Awards (1961)

Winner

Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) — Arthur Cohn and Rene Lafuite

Nominees

La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960) — dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade

35th Academy Awards (1962)

Winner

Black Fox — Louis Clyde Stoumen

Nominees

Alvorada (Brazil's Changing Face) — Hugo Niebeling

36th Academy Awards (1963)

Winner

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World — Robert Hughes

Nominees

Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain) — Paul de Roubaix

The Yanks Are Coming — Marshall Flaum

37th Academy Awards (1964)

Winner

Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Nominees

The Finest Hours — Jack Le Vien

Four Days in November — Mel Stuart

The Human Dutch — Bert Haanstra

Over There, 1914-18 — Jean Aurel

38th Academy Awards (1965)

Winner

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story — Sidney Glazier

Nominees

The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles — Laurence E. Mascott

The Forth Road Bridge — Peter Mills

Let My People Go — Marshall Flaum

To Die in Madrid — Frédéric Rossif

39th Academy Awards (1966)

Winner

The War Game — Peter Watkins

Nominees

The Face of Genius — Alfred R. Kelman

Helicopter Canada — Peter Jones, Tom Daly

Le Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) — Haroun Tazieff

The Really Big Family — Alex Grasshoff

40th Academy Awards (1967)

Winner

The Anderson Platoon — Pierre Schoendoerffer

Nominees

Festival — Murray Lerner

Harvest — Carroll Ballard

A King's Story — Jack Le Vien

A Time for Burning — William C. Jersey

41st Academy Awards (1968)

Winner

Journey into Self — Bill McGaw - [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, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.]

Nominees

A Few Notes on Our Food Problem — James Blue

The Legendary Champions — William Cayton

Other Voices — David H. Sawyer

Young Americans — Robert Cohn, Alex Grasshoff

42nd Academy Awards (1969)

Winner

Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life — Bernard Chevry

Nominees

Before the Mountain Was Moved — Robert K. Sharpe

In the Year of the Pig — Emile de Antonio

The Olympics in Mexico — Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada

The Wolf Men — Irwin Rosten

1970s

43rd Academy Awards (1970)

Winner

Woodstock — Bob Maurice

Nominees

Chariots of the Gods — Dr. Harald Reinl

Jack Johnson — Jim Jacobs

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis — Ely Landau

Say Goodbye — David H. Vowell

44th Academy Awards (1971)

Winner

The Hellstrom Chronicle — Walon Green

Nominees

Alaska Wilderness Lake — Alan Landsburg

On Any Sunday — Bruce Brown

The RA Expeditions — Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl

The Sorrow and the Pity — Marcel Ophuls

45th Academy Awards (1972)

Winner

Marjoe — Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan

Nominees

Ape and Super-Ape — Bert Haanstra

Malcolm X — Marvin Worth, Arnold Perl

Manson — Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick

The Silent Revolution — Eckehard Munck

46th Academy Awards (1973)

Winner

The Great American Cowboy — Kieth Merrill

Nominees

Always a New Beginning — John D. Goodell

Battle of Berlin — Bengt von zur Muehlen

Journey to the Outer Limits — Alex Grasshoff

Walls of Fire — Gertrude Ross Marks, Edmund F. Penney

47th Academy Awards (1974)

Winner

Hearts and Minds — Peter Davis, Bert Schneider

Nominees

Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman — Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow

The Challenge...A Tribute to Modern Art — Herbert Kline

The 81st Blow — Jacquot Ehrlich, David Bergman, Haim Gouri

The Wild and the Brave — Natalie R. Jones, Eugene S. Jones

48th Academy Awards (1975)

Winner

The Man Who Skied Down Everest — F. R. Crawley, James Hager, Dale Hartleben

Nominees

The California Reich — Walter F. Parkes, Keith F. Critchlow

Fighting for Our Lives — Glen Pearcy

The Incredible Machine — Irwin Rosten

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir — Shirley MacLaine

49th Academy Awards (1976)

Winner

Harlan County, U.S.A. — Barbara Kopple

Nominees

Hollywood on Trial — James Gutman,David Helpern, Jr.

Off the Edge — Michael Firth

People of the Wind — Anthony Howarth, David Koff

Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry — Donald Brittain, Robert Duncan

50th Academy Awards (1977)

Winner

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? — John Korty, Dan McCann, Warren L. Lockhart

Nominees

The Children of Theatre Street — Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack

High Grass Circus — Bill Brind, Torben Schioler, Tony Ianzelo

Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love — Harry Rasky

Union Maids — James Klein, Julia Reichert, Miles Mogulescu

51st Academy Awards (1978)

Winner

Scared Straight! — Arnold Shapiro

Nominees

The Lovers' Wind — Albert Lamorisse

Mysterious Castles of Clay — Alan Root

Raoni — Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams, Michel Gast

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade — Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb, Lorraine Gray

52nd Academy Awards (1979)

Winner

Best Boy — Ira Wohl

Nominees

Generation on the Wind — David A. Vassar

Going the Distance — Paul Cowan, Jacques Bobet

The Killing Ground — Steve Singer, Tom Priestley

The War at Home — Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown

1980s

53rd Academy Awards (1980)

Winner

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China — Murray Lerner

Nominees

Agee — Ross Spears

The Day after Trinity — Jon Else

Front Line — David Bradbury

The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 — Bengt von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn

54th Academy Awards (1981)

Winner

Genocide — Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier

Nominees

Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey — Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin, Jim Burroughs

Brooklyn Bridge — Ken Burns

Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott — Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson, Boyd Estus

El Salvador: Another Vietnam — Glenn Silber, Tete Vasconcellos

55th Academy Awards (1982)

Winner

Just Another Missing Kid — John Zaritsky

Nominees

After the Axe — Sturla Gunnarsson, Steve Lucas

Ben's Mill — John Karol, Michel Chalufour

In Our Water — Meg Switzgable

A Portrait of Giselle — Joseph Wishy

56th Academy Awards (1983)

Winner

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' — Emile Ardolino

Nominees

Children of Darkness — Richard Kotuk, Ara Chekmayan

First Contact — Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson

The Profession of Arms — Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen

Seeing Red — James Klein and Julia Reichert

57th Academy Awards (1984)

Winner

The Times of Harvey Milk — Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen

Nominees

High Schools — Charles Guggenheim, Nancy Sloss

In the Name of the People — Alex W. Drehsler, Frank Christopher

Marlene — Karel Dirka, Zev Braun

Streetwise — Cheryl McCall

58th Academy Awards (1985)

Winner

Broken Rainbow — Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd

Nominees

Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo — Susana Muñoz, Lourdes Portillo

Soldiers in Hiding — Japhet Asher

The Statue of Liberty — Ken Burns, Buddy Squires

Unfinished Business — Steven Okazaki

59th Academy Awards (1986)

Winner

Tie: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got — Brigitte Berman
Down and Out in America — Joseph Feury, Milton Justice

Nominees

Chile: Hasta Cuando? — David Bradbury

Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer — Kirk Simon, Amram Nowak

Witness to Apartheid — Sharon I. Sopher

60th Academy Awards (1987)

Winner

The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table — Aviva Slesin

Nominees

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965 — Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney

Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima — John Junkerman, John W. Dower

Radio Bikini — Robert Stone

A Stitch for Time — Barbara Herbich, Cyril Christo

61st Academy Awards (1988)

Winner

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie — Marcel Ophuls

Nominees

The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out — Robert Bilheimer, Ronald Mix

Let's Get Lost — Bruce Weber, Nan Bush

Promises to Keep — Ginny Durrin

Who Killed Vincent Chin? — Renee Tajima, Christine Choy

62nd Academy Awards (1989)

Winner

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt — Robert Epstein, Bill Couturié

Nominees

Adam Clayton Powell — Richard Kilberg, Yvonne Smith

Crack USA: County Under Siege — Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag

For All Mankind — Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier

Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren — Judith Leonard, Bill Jersey

1990s

63rd Academy Awards (1990)

Winner

American Dream — Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn

Nominees

Berkeley in the Sixties — Mark Kitchell

Building Bombs — Mark Mori, Susan Robinson

Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade — Judith Montell

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey — Robert Hillmann, Eugene Corr

64th Academy Awards (1991)

Winner

In the Shadow of the Stars — Allie Light, Irving Saraf

Nominees

Death on the Job — Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag

Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House — Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond

The Restless Conscience — Hava Kohav Beller

Wild by Law — Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey

65th Academy Awards (1992)

Winner

The Panama Deception — Barbara Trent, David Kasper

Nominees

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 — William Miles, Nina Rosenblum

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann — Margaret Smilow, Roma Baran

66th Academy Awards (1993)

Winner

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School — Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond

Nominees

The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter — David Paperny, Arthur Ginsberg

Children of Fate — Susan Todd, Andrew Young

For Better or for Worse — David Collier, Betsy Thompson

The War Room — D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus

67th Academy Awards (1994)

Winner

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision — Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders

Nominees

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter — Deborah Hoffmann

D-Day Remembered — Charles Guggenheim

Freedom on My Mind — Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford

A Great Day in Harlem — Jean Bach

68th Academy Awards (1995)

Winner

Anne Frank Remembered — Jon Blair

Nominees

The Battle over Citizen Kane — Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein

Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program — Allan Miller, Walter Scheuer

Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream — Mike Tollin, Fredric Golding

Troublesom Creek: A Midwestern — Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher

69th Academy Awards (1996)

Winner

When We Were Kings — Leon Gast, David Sonenberg

Nominees

The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story — Susan W. Dryfoos

Mandela — Jo Menell, Angus Gibson

Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse — Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson

Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press — Rick Goldsmith

70th Academy Awards (1997)

Winner

The Long Way Home — Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank

Nominees

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life — Michael Paxton

Colors Straight Up — Michèle Ohayon, Julia Schachter

4 Little Girls — Spike Lee, Sam Pollard

Wace: The Rules of Engagement — Dan Gifford, William Gazecki

71st Academy Awards (1998)

Winner

The Last Days — James Moll, Ken Lipper

Nominees

Dancemaker — Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer

The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. — Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth — Robert B. Weide

Regreat to Inform — Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole

72nd Academy Awards (1999)

Winner

One Day in September — Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald

Nominees

Buena Vista Social Club — Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg

Genghis Blues — Roko Belic, Adrian Belic

On the Ropes — Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen

Speaking in Strings — Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster

2000s

73rd Academy Awards (2000)

Winner

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport — Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer

Nominees

Legacy — Tod Lending

Long Night's Journey into Day — Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy — Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker

Sound and Fury — Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg

74th Academy Awards (2001)

Winner

Murder on a Sunday Morning — Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet

Nominees

Children Underground — Edet Belzberg

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton — Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson

Promises — Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg

War Photographer — Christian Frei

75th Academy Awards (2002)

Winner

Bowling for Columbine — Michael Moore, Michael Donovan

Nominees

Daughter from Danang — Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco

Prisoner of Paradise — Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender

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Winged Migration — Jacques Perrin

76th Academy Awards (2003)

Winner

The Fog of War — Errol Morris, Michael Williams

Nominees

Balseros — Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech

Capturing the Friedmans — Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling

My Architect — Nathaniel Kahn, Susan R. Behr

The Weather Underground — Sam Green, Bill Siegel

77th Academy Awards (2004)

Winner

Born into Brothels — Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski

Nominees

The Story of the Weeping Camel — Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa

Super Size Me — Morgan Spurlock

Tupac: Resurrection — Lauren Lazin, Karolyn Ali

Twist of Faith — Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt

78th Academy Awards (2005)

Winner

March of the Penguins — Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau

Nominees

Darwin's Nightmare — Hubert Sauper

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot

Murderball — Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro

Street Fight — Marshall Curry

79th Academy Awards (2006)

Winner

An Inconvenient Truth — Davis Guggenheim

Nominees

Deliver Us from Evil — Amy Berg, Frank Donner

Iraq in Fragments — James Longley, John Sinno

Jesus Camp — Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

My Country, My Country — Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer

80th Academy Awards (2007)

Winner

Taxi to the Dark Side — Alex Gibney, Eva Orner

Nominees

No End in Sight — Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience — Richard E. Robbins

Sicko — Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara

War/Dance — Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine

81st Academy Awards (2008)

Winner

Man on Wire — James Marsh, Simon Chinn

Nominees

The Betrayal - Nerakhoon — Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

Encounters at the End of the World — Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser

The Garden — Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Trouble the Water — Tia Lessin, Carl Deal

82nd Academy Awards (2009)

Winner

The Cove — Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens

Nominees

Burma VJ — Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller

Food, Inc. — Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers — Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith

Which Way Home — Rebecca Cammisa

2010s

83rd Academy Awards (2010)

Winner

Inside Job — Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs

Nominees

Exit Through the Gift Shop — Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz

Gasland — Josh Fox, Trish Adlesic

Restrepo — Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger

Waste Land — Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley

84th Academy Awards (2011)

Winner

Undefeated — T.J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay, Rich Middlemas

Nominees

Hell and Back Again — Danfung Dennis, Mike Lerner

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front — Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory — Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Pina — Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel

85th Academy Awards (2012)

Winner

Searching for Sugar Man — Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn

Nominees

5 Broken Cameras — Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

The Gatekeepers — Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, Estelle Fialon

How to Survive a Plague — David France, Howard Gertler

The Invisible War — Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering

86th Academy Awards (2013)

Winner

20 Feet from Stardom — Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers

Nominees

The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sorensen

Cutie and the Boxer — Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher

Dirty Wars — Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill

The Square — Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer

87th Academy Awards (2014)

Winner

CitizenFour — Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky

Nominees

Finding Vivian Maier — John Maloof, Charlie Siskel

Last Days in Vietnam — Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester

The Salt of the Earth — Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier

Virunga — Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

88th Academy Awards (2015)

Winner

Amy — Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees

Nominees

Cartel Land — Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin

The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sorensen

What Happened, Miss Simone? — Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby, Justin Wilkes

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom — Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor

89th Academy Awards (2016)

Winner

O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow

Nominees

Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi, Donatella Palermo

I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck, Remi Grellety, Hebert Peck

Life, Animated — Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman

13th — Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish

90th Academy Awards (2017)

Winner

Icarus — Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan

Nominees

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail — Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman

Faces Places — Agnes Varda, JR, Rosalie Varda

Last Men in Aleppo — Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Steen Jespersen

Strong Island — Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes

91st Academy Awards (2018)

Winner

Free Solo — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, Shannon Dill

Nominees

Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim

Minding the Gap — Bing Liu, Diane Quon

Of Fathers and Sons — Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert

RBG — Betsy West, Julie Cohen

92nd Academy Awards (2019)

Winner

American Factory — Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert

Nominees

The Cave — Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod, Sigrid Dyekjær

The Edge of Democracy — Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, Tiago Pavan

For Sama — Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts

Honeyland — Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, Atanas Georgiev

2020s

93rd Academy Awards (2020)

Winner

My Octopus Teacher — Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster

Nominees

Collective — Alexander Nanau, Bianca Oana

Crip Camp — Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Sara Bolder

The Mole Agent — Maite Alberdi, Marcela Santibáñez

Time — Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn

94th Academy Awards (2021)

Winner

TBD

Nominees

Ascension — Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell

Attica — Stanley Nelson, Traci A. Curry

Flee — Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — ?uestlove, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein

Writing with Fire — Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh