Academy Awards: Best Documentary

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Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Documentary (bold face indicates winner):

2006 (Feature)
- No End in Sight - Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience - Richard E. Robbins
- Sicko - Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara
- Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney, Eva Orner
- War/Dance - Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine
2007 (Short Subject)
- Freeheld - Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth
- La Corona (The Crown - Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega
- Salim Baba - Tim Sternberg, Francisco Bello
- Sari's Mother - James Longley
2006 (Feature)
- Deliver Us from Evil - Amy Berg, Frank Donner
- An Inconvenient Truth - Davis Guggenheim
- Iraq in Fragments - James Longley, John Sinno
- Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- My Country, My Country - Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
2006 (Short Subject)
- The Blood of Yingzhou District - Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
- Recycled Life - Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad
- Rehearsing a Dream - [Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
- Two Hands - Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr
2005 (Feature)
- Darwin's Nightmare - Hubert Sauper
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot
- March of the Penguins - Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau
- Murderball - Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
- Street Fight - Marshall Curry
2005 (Short Subject)
- The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club - Dan Krauss
- God Sleeps in Rwanda - Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
- The Mushroom Club - Steven Okazaki
- A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin - Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson
2004 (Feature)
- Born into Brothels - Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
- 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
2004 (Short Subject)
- Autism Is a World - Gerardine Wurzburg
- The Children of Leningradsky - Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski
- Hardwood - Hubert Davis, Erin Faith Young
- Mighty Times: The Children's March - Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
- Sister Rose's Passion - Oren Jacoby, Steve Kalafer
2003 (Feature)
- Balseros - Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Domenech
- Capturing the Friedmans - Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling
- The Fog of War - Errol Morris, Michael Williams
- My Architect - Nathaniel Kahn, Susan R. Behr
- The Weather Underground - Sam Green,Bill Siegel
2003 (Short Subject)
- Asylum - Sandy McLeod, Gini Reticker
- Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
- Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
2002 (Feature)
- Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore, Michael Donovan
- Daughter from Danang - Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
- Prisoner of Paradise - Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
- Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch
- Winged Migration - Jacques Perrin
2002 (Short Subject)
- The Collector of Bedford Street - Alice Elliott
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
- Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port
- Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel
2001 (Feature)
- Children Underground - Edet Belzberg
- LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton - Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson
- Murder on a Sunday Morning - Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet
- Promises - Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
- War Photographer - Christian Frei
2001 (Short Subject)
- Artists and Orphans: A True Drama - Lianne Klapper McNally
- Sing! - Freida Lee Mock, Jessica Sanders
- Thoth - Sarah Kernochan, Lynn Appelle
2000 (Feature)
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport - Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
- Legacy - Tod S. 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
2000 (Short Subject)
- Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
- Curtain Call - Chuck Braverman, Steve Kalafer
- Dolphins - Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
- The Man on Lincoln's Nose - Daniel Raim
- On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom - Eric Simonson, Leelai Demoz
1999 (Feature)
- Buena Vista Social Club - Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
- Genghis Blues - Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
- On the Ropes - Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
- One Day in September - Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
- Speaking in Strings - Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster
1999 (Short Subject)
- Eyewitness - Bert Van Bork
- King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
- The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo - Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack
1998 (Feature)
- Dancemaker - Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer
- The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. - Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus
- The Last Days - James Moll, Ken Lipper
- Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth - Robert B. Weide
- Regret To Inform - Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole
1998 (Short Subject)
- The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years - Keiko Ibi
- A Place in the Land - Charles Guggenheim
- Sunrise over Tiananmen Square - Shui-Bo Wang, Donald McWilliams
1997 (Feature)
- 4 Little Girls - Spike Lee, Sam Pollard
- Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life - Michael Paxton
- Colors Straight Up - Michele Ohayon, Julia Schachter
- The Long Way Home - Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
- Waco: The Rules of Engagement - Dan Gifford, William Gazecki
1997 (Short Subject)
- Alaska: Spirit of the Wild - George Casey, Paul Novros
- Amazon - Kieth Merrill, Jonathan Stern
- Daughter of the Bride - Terri Randall
- Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies - Mel Damski, Andrea Blaugrund
- A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
1996 (Feature)
- 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
- When We Were Kings - Leon Gast, David Sonenberg
1996 (Short Subject)
- Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu
- Cosmic Voyage - Jeffrey Marvin, Bayley Silleck
- An Essay on Matisse - Perry Wolff
- Special Effects - Susanne Simpson, Ben Burtt
- The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage - Paul Seydor, Nick Redman
1995 (Feature)
- Anne Frank Remembered - Jon Blair
- 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
- Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern - Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher
1995 (Short Subject)
- Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls - Nancy Dine, Richard Stilwell
- The Living Sea - Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
- Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper - Terry Sanders, Freida Lee Mock
- One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
- The Shadow of Hate - Charles Guggenheim
1994 (Feature)
- 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
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision - Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
1994 (Short Subject)
- 89mm od Europy (89mm from Europe) - Marcel Lozinski
- Blues Highway - Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag
- School of the Americas Assassins - Robert Richter
- Straight from the Heart - Dee Mosbacher, Frances Reid
- A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
1993 (Feature)
- 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
- I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School - Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond
- The War Room - D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
1993 (Short Subject)
- Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Steven Cantor, Peter Spirer
- Chicks in White Satin - Elaine Holliman, Jason Schneider
- Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
1992 (Feature)
- 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
- The Panama Deception - Barbara Trent, David Kasper
1992 (Short Subject)
- At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai - Geoffrey O'Connor
- Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the Little Review - Wendy L. Weinberg
- The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein - Richard Elson, Sally Bochner
- Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg
- When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman
1991 (Feature)
- Death on the Job - Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag
- Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House - Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond
- In the Shadow of the Stars - Allie Light, Irving Saraf
- The Restless Conscience - Hava Kohav Beller
- Wild by Law - Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey
1991 (Short Subject)
- Birdnesters of Thailand (aka Shadow Hunters) - Eric Valli, Alain Majani
- Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff
- A Little Vicious - Immy Humes
- The Mark of the Maker - David McGowan
- Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers - Bill Couturi�, Bernard Edelman
1990 (Feature)
- American Dream - Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn
- 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
1990 (Short Subject)
- Burning Down Tomorrow - Kit Thomas
- Chimps: So Like Us - Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
- Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki
- Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn - Derek Bromhall
- Rose Kennedy: A Life To Remember - Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
1989 (Feature)
- Adam Clayton Powell - Richard Killberg, Yvonne Smith
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt - Robert Epstein, Bill Couturi�
- 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
1989 (Short Subject)
- Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 - David Petersen
- The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim
- Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future - Ray Errol Fox
1988 (Feature)
- The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naude: An Afrikaner Speaks Out - Robert Bilheimer, Ronald Mix
- Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Marcel Ophuls
- Let's Get Lost - Bruce Weber, Nan Bush
- Promises to Keep - Ginny Durrin
- Who Killed Vincent Chin? - Renee Tajima, Christine Choy
1988 (Short Subject)
- The Children's Storefront - Karen Goodman
- Family Gathering - Lise Yasui, Ann Tegnell
- Gang Cops - Thomas B. Fleming, Daniel J. Marks
- Portrait of Imogen - Nancy Hale, Meg Partridge
- You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke
1987 (Feature)
- 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
- The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table - Aviva Slesin
1987 (Short Subject)
- Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller - Deborah Dickson
- In the Wee Wee Hours... - Dr. Frank Daniel, Izak Ben-Meir
- Language Says It All - Megan Williams
- Silver into Gold - Lynn Mueller
- Young at Heart - Sue Marx, Pamela Conn
1986 (Feature)
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got - Brigitte Berman
- Down and Out in America - Joseph Feury, Milton Justice
- Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer - Kirk Simon, Amram Nowak
- Witness to Apartheid - Sharon I. Sopher
- �Chile: Hasta Cuando? - David Bradbury
1986 (Short Subject)
- Debonair Dancers - Alison Nigh-Strelich
- The Masters of Disaster - Sonya Friedman
- Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse - Thomas L. Neff, Madeline Bell
- Sam - Aaron D. Weisblatt
- Women--for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe
1985 (Feature)
- Broken Rainbow - Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd
- Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo - Susana Mu�oz, Lourdes Portillo
- Soldiers in Hiding - Japhet Asher
- The Statue of Liberty - Ken Burns, Buddy Squires
- Unfinished Business - Steven Okazaki
1985 (Short Subject)
- The Courage To Care - Robert Gardner
- Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date - Michael Crowley, James Wolpaw
- Making Overtures--The Story of a Community Orchestra - Barbara Willis Sweete
- Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman
- The Wizard of the Strings - Alan Edelstein
1984 (Feature)
- 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
- The Times of Harvey Milk - Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen
1984 (Short Subject)
- The Children of Soong Ching Ling - Gary Bush, Paul T.K. Lin
- Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing - Ben Achtenberg, Joan Sawyer
- The Garden of Eden - Lawrence R. Hott, Roger M. Sherman
- Recollections of Pavlovsk - Irina Kalinina
- The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner
1983 (Feature)
- Children of Darkness - Richard Kotuk, Ara Chekmayan
- First Contact - Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
- He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' - Emile Ardolino
- The Profession of Arms - Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen
- Seeing Red - James Klein, Julia Reichert
1983 (Short Subject)
- Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott, Adam Symansky
- In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? - Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thiermann
- Sewing Woman - Arthur Dong
- Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph - Robert Eisenhardt
- You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei) - Dea Brokman, Ilene Landis
1982 (Feature)
- After the Axe - Sturla Gunnarsson, Steve Lucas
- Ben's Mill - John Karol, Michel Chalufour
- In Our Water - Meg Switzgable
- Just Another Missing Kid - John Zaritsky
- A Portrait of Giselle - Joseph Wishy
1982 (Short Subject)
- Gods of Metal - Robert Richter
- If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain, Terri Nash
- The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America - Charles Guggenheim, Werner Schumann
- To Live or Let Die - Freida Lee Mock
- Traveling Hopefully - John G. Avildsen
1981 (Feature)
- 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
- Genocide - Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier
1981 (Short Subject)
- Americas in Transition - Obie Benz
- Close Harmony - Nigel Noble
- Journey for Survival - Dick Young
- See What I Say - Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc, Freddi Stevens
- Urge To Build - Roland Hall�, John Hoover
1980 (Feature)
- Agee - Ross Spears
- The Day After Trinity - Jon Else
- From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China - Murray Lerner
- Front Line - David Bradbury
- The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 - Bengt von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn
1980 (Short Subject)
- Don't Mess with Bill - John Watson, Pen Densham
- The Eruption of Mount St. Helens - George Casey
- It's the Same World - Dick Young
- Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hall�, Peter W. Ladue