Oscar voor beste documentaire

De Academy Award voor beste documentaire (ook bekend als de Oscar voor beste documentaire) is sinds 1943 een jaarlijkse prijs van de Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Lijst van winnaars en genomineerden

Onderstaande jaartallen vertegenwoordigen het jaar dat de film genomineerd werd voor de prijs. De daadwerkelijke uitreiking is het jaar erna.

1942-1949

• 1942 (4 winnaars)
  • The Battle of Midway
  • Kokoda Front Line
  • Moscow Strikes Back
  • Prelude to War

• 1943 - Desert Victory
• 1944 - The Fighting Lady
• 1945 - The True Glory
• 1946 - geen
• 1947 - Design for Death
• 1948 - The Secret Land
• 1949 - Daybreak in Udi

1950-1959

• 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
• 1956 - The Silent World
• 1957 - Albert Schweitzer
• 1958 - White Wilderness
• 1959 - Serengeti Shall Not Die

1960-1969

• 1960 - The Horse with the Flying Tail
• 1961 - Sky Above and Mud Beneath
• 1962 - Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
• 1963 - Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World
• 1964 - Jacques-Yves Cousteaus World Without Sun
• 1965 - The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
• 1966 - The War Game
• 1967 - The Anderson Platoon
• 1968 - Journey Into Self
• 1969 - Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life

1970-1979

• 1970 - Woodstock
• 1971 - The Hellstrom Chronicle
• 1972 - Marjoe, regie door Howard Smith en Sarah Kernochan
• 1973 - The Great American Cowboy by Kieth Merrill
• 1974 - Hearts and Minds
• 1975 - The Man Who Skied Down Everest
• 1976 - Harlan County, USA, regie door Barbara Kopple
• 1977 - Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
• 1978 - Scared Straight!
• 1979 - Best Boy

1980-1989

• 1980 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China regie door Murray Lerner
  • Agee
  • The Day After Trinity
  • Front Line
  • The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45

• 1981 Genocide regie door Arnold Schwartzman
  • Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott
  • El Salvador: Another Vietnam

• 1982 Just Another Missing Kid regie door John Zaritsky
  • A Portrait of Giselle
  • After the Axe
  • Ben's Mill
  • In Our Water

• 1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' regie door Emile Ardolino
  • Children of Darkness
  • First Contact
  • The Profession of Arms
  • Seeing Red

• 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk regie door Robert Epstein en Richard Schmiechen
  • High Schools
  • In the Name of the People
  • Marlene
  • Streetwise

• 1985 Broken Rainbow regie door Maria Florio en Victoria Mudd
  • Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
  • Soldiers in Hiding
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • Unfinished Business

• 1986 - (2 winnaars):
  • Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got regie door Brigitte Berman
  • Down and Out in America regie door Lee Grant
  • Chile: Hasta Cuando?
  • Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Witness to Apartheid

• 1987 The Ten-Year Lunch regie door Aviva Slesin
  • Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965
  • Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
  • Radio Bikini
  • A Stitch for Time

• 1988 Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie regie door Marcel Ophüls
  • The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out
  • Let's Get Lost
  • Promises to Keep
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin?

• 1989 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt regie door Rob Epstein en Jeffrey Friedman
  • Adam Clayton Powell
  • Crack USA: County under Siege
  • For All Mankind
  • Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

1990-1999

• 1990 American Dream regie door Barbara Kopple en Arthur Cohn
  • Berkeley in the Sixties
  • Building Bombs
  • Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
  • Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

• 1991 In the Shadow of the Stars regie door Allie Light en Irving Saraf
  • Death on the Job
  • Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
  • The Restless Conscience
  • Wild by Law

• 1992 The Panama Deception regie door Barbara Trent en David Kasper
  • Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
  • Fires of Kuwait
  • Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
  • Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

• 1993 I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School regie door Susan Raymond
  • The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter
  • Children of Fate
  • For Better or For Worse
  • The War Room

• 1994 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision regie door Freida Lee Mock
  • Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
  • D-Day Remembered
  • Freedom of My Mind
  • A Great Day in Harlem

• 1995 Anne Frank Remembered regie door Jon Blair
  • The Battle over Citizen Kane
  • Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program
  • Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream
  • Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

• 1996 When We Were Kings regie door Leon Gast
  • The Line King: The Al Herschfeldt Story
  • Mandela
  • Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
  • Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press

• 1997 The Long Way Home regie door Mark Jonathan Harris
  • Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
  • Colors Straight Up
  • 4 Little Girls
  • Waco: The Rules of Engagement

• 1998 The Last Days regie door James Moll
  • Dancemaker
  • The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.
  • Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
  • Regret to Inform

• 1999 One Day in September regie door Kevin MacDonald
  • Buena Vista Social Club
  • Genghis Blues
  • On the Ropes
  • Speaking in Strings

2000-2009

• 2000 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport regie door Mark Jonathan Harris en Deborah Oppenheimer
  • Legacy
  • Long Night's Journey into Day
  • Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
  • Sound and Fury

• 2001 Murder on a Sunday Morning regie door Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
  • Children Underground
  • LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
  • Promises
  • War Photographer

• 2002 Bowling for Columbine regie door Michael Moore
  • Daughter from Danang
  • Prisoner of Paradise
  • Spellbound
  • Winged Migration

• 2003 The Fog of War regie door Errol Morris
  • Balseros
  • Capturing the Friedmans
  • My Architect
  • The Weather Underground

• 2004 Born into Brothels regie door Ross Kauffman en Zana Briski
  • The Story of the Weeping Camel
  • Super Size Me
  • Tupac: Resurrection
  • Twist of Faith

• 2005 March of the Penguins regie door Luc Jacquet
  • Darwin's Nightmare
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • Murderball
  • Street Fight

• 2006 An Inconvenient Truth regie door Davis Guggenheim
  • Deliver Us from Evil
  • Iraq in Fragments
  • Jesus Camp
  • My Country, My Country

• 2007 Taxi to the Dark Side regie door Alex Gibney
  • No End in Sight
  • Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
  • Sicko
  • War Dance

• 2008 Man on Wire regie door James Marsh
  • The Betrayal - Nerkahoon
  • Encounters at the End of the World
  • The Garden
  • Trouble the Water

• 2009 The Cove regie door Louie Psihoyos en Fisher Stevens
  • Burma VJ
  • Food, Inc.
  • The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
  • Which Way Home

2010-2019

Jaar	Film	Genomineerde(n)
2010 (83ste)
	Inside Job	Charles Ferguson en Audrey Marrs
	Exit through the Gift Shop	Banksy en Jaimie D'Cruz
	Gasland	Josh Fox en Trish Adlesic
	Restrepo	Tim Hetherington en Sebastian Junger
	Waste Land	Lucy Walker en Angus Aynsley
2011 (84ste)
	Undefeated	TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay en Rich Middlemas
	Hell and Back Again	Danfung Dennis en Mike Lerner
	If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front	Marshall Curry en Sam Cullman
	Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory	Joe Berlinger en Bruce Sinofsky
	Pina	Wim Wenders en Gian-Piero Ringel
2012 (85ste)
	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul en Simon Chinn
	5 Broken Cameras	Emad Burnat en Guy Davidi
	The Gatekeepers	Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky en Estelle Fialon
	How to Survive a Plague	David France en Howard Gertler
	The Invisible War	Kirby Dick en Amy Ziering
2013 (86ste)
	20 Feet from Stardom	Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen en Caitrin Rogers
	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer en Signe Byrge Sørensen
	Cutie and the Boxer	Zachary Heinzerling en Lydia Dean Pilcher
	Dirty Wars	Richard Rowley en Jeremy Scahill
	The Square	Jehane Noujaim en Karim Amer
2014 (87ste)
	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy en Dirk Wilutzky
	Finding Vivian Maier	John Maloof en Charlie Siskel
	Last Days in Vietnam	Rory Kennedy en Keven McAlester
	The Salt of the Earth	Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado en David Rosier
	Virunga	Orlando von Einsiedel en Joanna Natasegara
2015 (88ste)
	Amy	Asif Kapadia en James Gay-Rees
	Cartel Land	Matthew Heineman en Tom Yellin
	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer en Signe Byrge Sørensen
	What Happened, Miss Simone?	Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby en Justin Wilkes
	Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom	Evgeny Afineevsky en Den Tolmor
2016 (89ste)
	O.J.: Made in America	Ezra Edelman en Caroline Waterlow
	Fire at Sea	Gianfranco Rosi en Donatella Palermo
	I Am Not Your Negro	Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety en Hébert Peck
	Life, Animated	Roger Ross Williams en Julie Goldman
	13th	Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick en Howard Barish
2017 (90ste)
	Icarus	Bryan Fogel en Dan Cogan
	Abacus: Small Enough to Jail	Steve James, Mark Mitten en Julie Goldman
	Faces Places	Agnès Varda, JR en Rosalie Varda
	Last Men in Aleppo	Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed en Søren Steen Jespersen
	Strong Island	Yance Ford en Joslyn Barnes

Externe link

• (en) Officiële website

Bronnen, noten en/of referenties

Oscars

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