The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Winners 1980s YearWinnerDirector(s)1980 Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?Ross McElwee 1981 Diaries 1982 The Atomic CafeJayne Loader and Kevin Rafferty1983 Say Amen, SomebodyGeorge T. Nierenberg1984 The Times of Harvey MilkRob Epstein1985 ShoahClaude Lanzmann1986 Mother TeresaAnn Petrie and Jeanette Petrie1987 MarleneMaximilian Schell1988 The Thin Blue LineErrol Morris1989 Let's Get LostBruce Weber

1990s YearWinnerDirector(s)1990 No information1991 Paris Is BurningJennie Livingston1992 No information1993 Visions of LightArnold Glassman and Todd McCarthy1994 Hoop DreamsSteve James1995 Crumb Terry Zwigoff1996 Anne Frank RememberedJon Blair1997 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control Errol Morris1998 The Big One Michael Moore1999 Hands on a Hard Body: The DocumentaryS.R. Bindler

2000s YearWinnerDirector(s)2000 The Eyes of Tammy Faye Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato2001 The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse) Agnès Varda2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen2003 Capturing the Friedmans Andrew Jarecki2004 Control RoomBoston film critics flip for 'Sideways' - Variety Jehane Noujaim2005 Murderball Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro2006 Deliver Us from Evil Amy BergShut Up & Sing Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck2007 Crazy Love Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens2008 Man on Wire James Marsh2009 The Cove Louie Psihoyos

2010s YearWinnerDirector(s)2010 Marwencol Jeff Malmberg2011 Project Nim'The Artist' Named Best Picture by Boston Film Critics|Retuters James Marsh2012 How to Survive a Plague David France2013 The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer2014 Citizenfour Laura Poitras2015 AmyL.A., Boston film critics name "Spotlight" year's best - CBS News Asif Kapadia2016 O.J.: Made in AmericaEzra Edelman2017 Dawson City: Frozen Time Bill Morrison2018 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville2019 Honeyland Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov

2020s YearWinnerDirector(s)2020 CollectiveThe Boston Society of Film Critics names its winners for 2020 - The Boston Globe Alexander Nanau2021 Summer of SoulQuestlove2022All the Beauty and the BloodshedLaura Poitras2023Geographies of SolitudeJacquelyn Mills2024No Other LandYuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor2025Afternoons of SolitudeAlbert Serra

Multiple winners James Marsh - 2 Errol Morris - 2 Laura Poitras - 2

See also Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

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