The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
History This award had been given since 1988. The award is also known as Best Documentary/Non-Fiction film.
Winners
1980s Year Winner Director(s) 1988 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Marcel Ophuls 1989 Roger & Me Michael Moore
1990s Year Winner Director(s) 1990 Paris Is Burning Jennie Livingston 1991 American Dream Barbara Kopple 1992 Black Harvest Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly 1993 It's All True Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel and Orson Welles 1994 Hoop Dreams Steve James 1995 Crumb Terry Zwigoff 1996 When We Were Kings Leon Gast 1997 Riding the Rails Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys 1998 The Farm: Angola, USA Liz Garbus and Wilbert Rideau 1999 Buena Vista Social Club Wim Wenders
2000s Year Winner Director(s) 2000 Dark Days Marc Singer 2001 The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) Agnès Varda 2002 The Cockettes Bill Weber and David Weissman 2003 The Fog of War Errol Morris 2004 Born into Brothels Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman 2005 Grizzly Man Werner Herzog 2006 An Inconvenient Truth Davis Guggenheim 2007 No End in Sight Charles Ferguson 2008 Man on Wire James Marsh 2009 The Beaches of Agnès Agnès VardaThe Cove Louie Psihoyos
2010s Year Winner Director(s) 2010 Last Train Home Lixin Fan 2011 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog 2012 The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh 2013 Stories We Tell Sarah Polley 2014 Citizenfour Laura Poitras 2015 Amy Asif Kapadia 2016 I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck 2017 Faces Places (Visages Villages) Agnès Varda and JR 2018 Shirkers Sandi TanLos Angeles Film Critics Association 2018 Winners|IndieWire 2019 American Factory Steven Bognar and Julia ReichertLos Angeles Film Critics Awards 2019 Winners — Full List — Deadline
2020s
Year Winner Director(s) 2020 Time Garrett Bradley'Small Axe' Wins LAFCA Best Picture Despite Not Submitted for Oscars - Variety 2021 Summer of Soul QuestloveLos Angeles Film Critics 2021 Winners List - Variety 2022 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura PoitrasLos Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) 2022 Winners - Variety 2023 Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros Frederick WisemanLos Angeles Film Critics Awards: Winners List 2024 No Other LandBasel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor2025My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in MoscowJulia Loktev
Multiple wins Agnes Varda - 3 (one co-win) Werner Herzog - 2 Laura Poitras - 2
See also Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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