Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year Winner Distributing company(s) Director(s)
2000 Dark Days Palm Pictures Marc Singer
The Eyes of Tammy FayeLionsgate FilmsFenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
Long Night's Journey into DaySeventh Art ReleasingDeborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid
Paragraph 175New Yorker FilmsRob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Sound and FuryArtistic License FilmsJosh Aronson
2001 Dogtown and Z-Boys Sony Pictures Classics Stacy Peralta
Go Tigers!IFC FilmsKenneth A. Carlson
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of CottonMaysles Films Inc.Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke and Albert Maysles
PromisesCowboy PicturesCarlos Bolado, B.Z. Goldberg, and Justine Shapiro
ScratchPalm PicturesDoug Pray
2002 Bowling for Columbine United Artists Michael Moore
The CockettesStrand ReleasingBill Weber and David Weissman
Devil's PlaygroundCinemaxLucy Walker
How to Draw a BunnyArtisan EntertainmentJohn W. Walter
StevieKartemquin FilmsSteve James
2003 The Fog of War Sony Pictures Classics Errol Morris
Mayor of the Sunset StripFirst Look StudiosGeorge Hickenlooper
My ArchitectNew Yorker FilmsNathaniel Kahn
OT: Our TownFilm MovementScott Hamilton Kennedy
Power TripFilms Transit InternationalPaul Devlin
2004 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster IFC Films Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Bright LeavesFirst Run FeaturesRoss McElwee
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentShola Lynch
Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the HolocaustFirst Run FeaturesMenachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky
TarnationWellspring MediaJonathan Caouette
2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Magnolia Pictures Alex Gibney
Grizzly ManLionsgate FilmsWerner Herzog
La SierraIcarus FilmsScott Dalton and Margarita Martinez
RománticoKino InternationalMark Becker
Sir! No Sir!Balcony ReleasingDavid Zeiger
2006 The Road to Guantánamo Roadside Attractions Michael Winterbottom
A Lion in the HousePBS DistributionSteven Bognar and Julia Reichert
My Country, My CountryZeitgeist FilmsLaura Poitras
The Trials of Darryl HuntTHINKFilmRicki Stern and Anne Sundberg
You're Gonna Miss MePalm PicturesKeven McAlester
2007 Crazy Love Magnolia Pictures Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens
Lake of FireTHINKFilmTony Kaye
Manufactured LandscapesZeitgeist FilmsJennifer Baichwal
The MonasteryKoch-Lorber FilmsPernille Rose Grønkjær
The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony BlairTruly IndieMichael Tucker and Petra Epperlein
2008 Man on Wire[1] Magnolia Pictures James Marsh
The BetrayalThe Cinema GuildEllen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
Encounters at the End of the WorldTHINKFilmWerner Herzog
The Order of MythsThe Cinema GuildMargaret Brown
Up the YangtzeZeitgeist FilmsYung Chang
2009 Anvil! The Story of Anvil[2] Abramorama Sacha Gervasi
Food, Inc.Magnolia PicturesRobert Kenner
More than a GameLionsgateKristopher Belman
October CountryTopic StudiosMichael Palmieri and Donal Mosher
Which Way HomeHBO FilmsRebecca Cammisa

2010s

Year Winner Distributing company(s) Director(s)
2010 Exit Through the Gift Shop[3] Producers Distribution Agency Banksy
MarwencolThe Cinema GuildJeff Malmberg
RestrepoNational Geographic EntertainmentTim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
SweetgrassThe Cinema GuildLucien Castaing-Taylor
Thunder SoulRoadside AttractionsMark Landsman
2011 The Interrupters[4] The Cinema Guild Steve James
An African ElectionThe Cinema GuildJarreth J. Merz and Kevin Merz
Bill Cunningham New YorkZeitgeist FilmsRichard Press
The Redemption of General Butt Nakedpart2 picturesDaniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss
We Were HereThe Film CollaborativeDavid Weissman
2012 The Invisible War[5] Cinedigm Kirby Dick
The Central Park FiveSundance SelectsKen Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon
How to Survive a PlagueSundance SelectsDavid France
Marina Abramović: The Artist is PresentMusic Box FilmsMatthew Akers and Jeff Dupre
The Waiting RoomInternational Film CircuitPeter Nicks
2013 20 Feet from Stardom[6] RADiUS-TWC Morgan Neville
The Act of KillingDrafthouse FilmsJoshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn
After TillerRo*coMartha Shane and Lana Wilson
Gideon's ArmyHBO Documentary FilmsDawn Porter
The SquareGathrFilms/Participant MediaJehane Noujaim
2014 Citizenfour[7] RADiUS-TWC Laura Poitras
20,000 Days on EarthDrafthouse FilmsIain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
The Salt of the EarthLe PacteWim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Stray DogStill Rolling ProductionsDebra Granik
VirungaNetflixOrlando von Einsiedel
2015 The Look of Silence[8] Drafthouse Films Joshua Oppenheimer
(T)errorPBS DistributionLyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
Best of EnemiesMagnolia Pictures/Participant MediaRobert Gordon and Morgan Neville
Heart of a DogAbramoramaLaurie Anderson
MeruMusic Box FilmsJimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
The Russian WoodpeckerFilmBuffChad Garcia
2016 O.J.: Made in America[9] ESPN Films Ezra Edelman
13thNetflixAva DuVernay
CamerapersonJanus FilmsKirsten Johnson
I Am Not Your NegroMagnolia Pictures/Amazon StudiosRaoul Peck
SonitaWomen Make MoviesRokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
Under the SunDeckert Distribution/Icarus FilmsVitaly Mansky
2017 Faces Places[10] Le Pacte Agnès Varda and JR
The DeparturePandoraLana Wilson
Last Men in AleppoGrasshopper FilmFeras Fayyad
MotherlandFilmRiseRamona Diaz
QuestFirst Run FeaturesJonathan Olshefski
2018 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Focus Features Morgan Neville
Hale County This Morning, This EveningThe Cinema GuildRaMell Ross
Minding the GapHulu/Magnolia PicturesBing Liu
Of Fathers and SonsKino LorberTalal Derki
On Her ShouldersRYOTAlexandria Bombach
ShirkersNetflixSandi Tan
2019 American Factory Netflix Jeff Reichert and Julie Parker Benello
Apollo 11NeonTodd Douglas Miller, Thomas Petersen and Evan Krauss
For SamaPBS DistributionWaad Al-Kateab
HoneylandNeonAtanas Georgiev
Island of the Hungry GhostsAutlook FilmsalesAlexander Wadouh, Samm Haillay, Alex Kelly, Gizem Acarla and Gabrielle Brady

2020s

2020

See also

References

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