Oscar voor beste documentaire

De Academy Award voor beste documentaire (Engels: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, ook bekend als de Oscar voor beste documentaire) is sinds 1943 een jaarlijkse prijs van de Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voor documentaires.

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 (vier 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: Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)
• 1962: Black Fox
• 1963: Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
• 1964: Jacques-Yves Cousteau's 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

Jaar	Film	Genomineerde(n)
1970 (43ste)
	Woodstock	Bob Maurice
	Chariots of the Gods	Harald Reinl
	Jack Johnson	Jim Jacobs
	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Ely Landau
	Say Goodbye	David H. Vowell
1971 (44ste)
	The Hellstrom Chronicle	Walon Green
	Alaska Wilderness Lake	Alan Landsburg
	On Any Sunday	Bruce Brown
	The RA Expeditions	Lennart Ehrenborg en Thor Heyerdahl
	The Sorrow and the Pity	Marcel Ophüls
1972 (45ste)
	Marjoe	Howard Smith en Sarah Kernochan
	Ape and Super-Ape	Bert Haanstra
	Malcolm X	Marvin Worth en Arnold Perl
	Manson	Robert Hendrickson en Laurence Merrick
	The Silent Revolution	Eckehard Munck
1973 (46ste)
	The Great American Cowboy	Kieth Merrill
	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 en Edmund F. Penney
1974 (47ste)
	Hearts and Minds	Peter Davis en Bert Schneider
	The 81st Blow	Jacquot Ehrlich, David Bergman en Haim Gouri
	Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman	Judy Collins en Jill Godmilow
	The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art	Herbert Kline
	The Wild and the Brave	Natalie R. Jones en Eugene S. Jones
1975 (48ste)
	The Man Who Skied down Everest	F.R. Crawley, James Hager en Dale Hartleben
	The California Reich	Walter F. Parkes en 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
1976 (49ste)
	Harlan County, USA	Barbara Kopple
	Hollywood on Trial	James Gutman en David Helpern jr.
	Off the Edge	Michael Firth
	People of the Wind	Anthony Howarth en David Koff
	Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry	Donald Brittain en Robert Duncan
1977 (50ste)
	Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?	John Korty, Dan McCann en Warren L. Lockhart
	The Children of Theatre Street	Robert Dornhelm en Earle Mack
	High Grass Circus	Bill Brind, Torben Schioler en Tony Ianzelo
	Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love	Harry Rasky
	Union Maids	James Klein, Julia Reichert en Miles Mogulescu
1978 (51ste)
	Scared Straight!	Arnold Shapiro
	The Lovers' Wind	Albert Lamorisse
	Mysterious Castles of Clay	Alan Root
	Raoni	Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams en Michel Gast
	With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade	Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb en Lorraine Gray
1979 (52ste)
	Best Boy	Ira Wohl
	Generation on the Wind	David A. Vassar
	Going the Distance	Paul Cowan en Jacques Bobet
	The Killing Ground	Steve Singer en Tom Priestley
	The War at Home	Glenn Silber en Barry Alexander Brown

1980-1989

Jaar	Film	Genomineerde(n)
1980 (53ste)
	From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China	Murray Lerner
	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 en Arthur Cohn
1981 (54ste)
	Genocide	Arnold Schwartzman en Marvin Hier
	Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey	Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin en Jim Burroughs
	Brooklyn Bridge	Ken Burns
	Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott	Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson en Boyd Estus
	El Salvador: Another Vietnam	Glenn Silber en Tete Vasconcellos
1982 (55ste)
	Just Another Missing Kid	John Zaritsky
	After the Axe	Sturla Gunnarsson en Steve Lucas
	Ben's Mill	John Karol en Michel Chalufour
	In Our Water	Meg Switzgable
	A Portrait of Giselle	Joseph Wishy
1983 (56ste)
	He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'	Emile Ardolino
	Children of Darkness	Richard Kotuk en Ara Chekmayan
	First Contact	Bob Connolly en Robin Anderson
	The Profession of Arms	Michael Bryans en Tina Viljoen
	Seeing Red	James Klein en Julia Reichert
1984 (57ste)
	The Times of Harvey Milk	Robert Epstein en Richard Schmiechen
	High Schools	Charles Guggenheim en Nancy Sloss
	In the Name of the People	Alex W. Drehsler en Frank Christopher
	Marlene	Karel Dirka en Zev Braun
	Streetwise	Cheryl McCall
1985 (58ste)
	Broken Rainbow	Maria Florio en Victoria Mudd
	Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Susana Muñoz en Lourdes Portillo
	Soldiers in Hiding	Japhet Asher
	The Statue of Liberty	Ken Burns en Buddy Squires
	Unfinished Business	Steven Okazaki
1986 (59ste)
	Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got	Brigitte Berman
	Down and Out in America	Joseph Feury en Milton Justice
	Chile: Hasta Cuando?	David Bradbury
	Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer	Kirk Simon en Amram Nowak
	Witness to Apartheid	Sharon I. Sopher
1987 (60ste)
	The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table	Aviva Slesin
	Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965	Callie Crossley en James A. DeVinney
	Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima	John Junkerman en John W. Dower
	Radio Bikini	Robert Stone
	A Stitch for Time	Barbara Herbich en Cyril Christo
1988 (61ste)
	Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie	Marcel Ophüls
	The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out	Robert Bilheimer en Ronald Mix
	Let's Get Lost	Bruce Weber en Nan Bush
	Promises to Keep	Ginny Durrin
	Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Renee Tajima en Christine Choy
1989 (62ste)
	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt	Robert Epstein en Bill Couturié
	Adam Clayton Powell	Richard Kilberg en Yvonne Smith
	Crack USA: County Under Siege	Vince DiPersio en William Guttentag
	For All Mankind	Al Reinert en Betsy Broyles Breier
	Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren	Judith Leonard en Bill Jersey

1990-1999

Jaar	Film	Genomineerde(n)
1990 (63ste)
	American Dream	Barbara Kopple en Arthur Cohn
	Berkeley in the Sixties	Mark Kitchell
	Building Bombs	Mark Mori en Susan Robinson
	Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade	Judith Montell
	Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey	Robert Hillmann en Eugene Corr
1991 (64ste)
	In the Shadow of the Stars	Allie Light en Irving Saraf
	Death on the Job	Vince DiPersio en William Guttentag
	Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House	Alan Raymond en Susan Raymond
	The Restless Conscience	Hava Kohav Beller
	Wild by Law	Lawrence Hott en Diane Garey
1992 (65ste)
	The Panama Deception	Barbara Trent en David Kasper
	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 en Nina Rosenblum
	Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann	Margaret Smilow en Roma Baran
1993 (66ste)
	I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School	Susan Raymond en Alan Raymond
	The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter	David Paperny en Arthur Ginsberg
	Children of Fate	Susan Todd en Andrew Young
	For Better or For Worse	David Collier en Betsy Thompson
	The War Room	D.A. Pennebaker en Chris Hegedus
1994 (67ste)
	Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	Freida Lee Mock en Terry Sanders
	Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter	Deborah Hoffmann
	D-Day Remembered	Charles Guggenheim
	Freedom of My Mind	Connie Field en Marilyn Mulford
	A Great Day in Harlem	Jean Bach
1995 (68ste)
	Anne Frank Remembered	Jon Blair
	The Battle over Citizen Kane	Thomas Lennon en Michael Epstein
	Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program	Allan Miller en Walter Scheuer
	Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream	Mike Tollin en Fredric Golding
	Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Jeanne Jordan en Steven Ascher
1996 (69ste)
	When We Were Kings	Leon Gast en David Sonenberg
	The Line King: The Al Herschfeldt Story	Susan W. Dryfoos
	Mandela	Jo Menell en Angus Gibson
	Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse	Anne Belle en Deborah Dickson
	Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press	Rick Goldsmith
1997 (70ste)
	The Long Way Home	Marvin Hier en Richard Trank
	4 Little Girls	Spike Lee en Sam Pollard
	Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life	Michael Paxton
	Colors Straight Up	Michèle Ohayon en Julia Schachter
	Waco: The Rules of Engagement	Dan Gifford en William Gazecki
1998 (71ste)
	The Last Days	James Moll en Ken Lipper
	Dancemaker	Matthew Diamond en Jerry Kupfer
	The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.	Jonathan Stack en Liz Garbus
	Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth	Robert B. Weide
	Regret to Inform	Barbara Sonneborn en Janet Cole
1999 (72ste)
	One Day in September	Arthur Cohn en Kevin Macdonald
	Buena Vista Social Club	Wim Wenders en Ulrich Felsberg
	Genghis Blues	Roko Belic en Adrian Belic
	On the Ropes	Nanette Burstein en Brett Morgen
	Speaking in Strings	Paola di Florio en Lilibet Foster

2000-2009

Jaar	Film	Genomineerde(n)
2000 (73ste)
	Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport	Mark Jonathan Harris en Deborah Oppenheimer
	Legacy	Tod Lending
	Long Night's Journey into Day	Frances Reid en Deborah Hoffmann
	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy	Barak Goodman en Daniel Anker
	Sound and Fury	Josh Aronson en Roger Weisberg
2001 (74ste)
	Murder on a Sunday Morning	Jean-Xavier de Lestrade en Denis Poncet
	Children Underground	Edet Belzberg
	LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton	Susan Froemke en Deborah Dickson
	Promises	Justine Shapiro en B.Z. Goldberg
	War Photographer	Christian Frei
2002 (75ste)
	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Moore en Michael Donovan
	Daughter from Danang	Gail Dolgin en Vicente Franco
	Prisoner of Paradise	Malcolm Clarke en Stuart Sender
	Spellbound	Jeffrey Blitz en Sean Welch
	Winged Migration	Jacques Perrin
2003 (76ste)
	The Fog of War	Errol Morris en Michael Williams
	Balseros	Carlos Bosch en Josep Maria Domenech
	Capturing the Friedmans	Andrew Jarecki en Marc Smerling
	My Architect	Nathaniel Kahn en Susan R. Behr
	The Weather Underground	Sam Green en Bill Siegel
2004 (77ste)
	Born into Brothels	Ross Kauffman en Zana Briski
	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Luigi Falorni en Byambasuren Davaa
	Super Size Me	Morgan Spurlock
	Tupac: Resurrection	Lauren Lazin en Karolyn Ali
	Twist of Faith	Kirby Dick en Eddie Schmidt
2005 (78ste)
	March of the Penguins	Luc Jacquet en Yves Darondeau
	Darwin's Nightmare	Hubert Sauper
	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	Alex Gibney en Jason Kliot
	Murderball	Henry-Alex Rubin en Dana Adam Shapiro
	Street Fight	Marshall Curry
2006 (79ste)
	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim
	Deliver Us from Evil	Amy Berg en Frank Donner
	Iraq in Fragments	James Longley en John Sinno
	Jesus Camp	Heidi Ewing en Rachel Grady
	My Country, My Country	Laura Poitras en Jocelyn Glatzer
2007 (80ste)
	Taxi to the Dark Side	Alex Gibney en Eva Orner
	No End in Sight	Charles Ferguson en Audrey Marrs
	Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience	Richard E. Robbins
	Sicko	Michael Moore en Meghan O'Hara
	War/Dance	Andrea Nix Fine en Sean Fine
2008 (81ste)
	Man on Wire	James Marsh en Simon Chinn
	The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)	Ellen Kuras en Thavisouk Phrasavath
	Encounters at the End of the World	Werner Herzog en Henry Kaiser
	The Garden	Scott Hamilton Kennedy
	Trouble the Water	Tia Lessin en Carl Deal
2009 (82ste)
	The Cove	Louie Psihoyos en Fisher Stevens
	Burma VJ	Anders Østergaard en Lise Lense-Møller
	Food, Inc.	Robert Kenner en Elise Pearlstein
	The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers	Judith Ehrlich en Rick Goldsmith
	Which Way Home	Rebecca Camissa

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
2018 (91ste)
	Free Solo	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes en Shannon Dill
	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes en Su Kim
	Minding the Gap	Bing Liu en Diane Quon
	Of Fathers and Sons	Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme en Tobias N. Siebert
	RBG	Betsy West en Julie Cohen
2019 (92ste)
	American Factory	Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert en Jeff Reichert
	The Cave	Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod en Sigrid Dyekjær
	The Edge of Democracy	Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris en Tiago Pavan
	For Sama	Waad Al-Kateab en Edward Watts
	Honeyland	Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska en Atanas Georgiev

Bronnen, noten en/of referenties

Oscars

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