St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Feature

The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Feature is an award given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association, honoring the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking.

Winners

2000s YearFilmDirector(s)Nominees2004Fahrenheit 9/11Michael Moore2005March of the PenguinsLuc Jacquet The Aristocrats — Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza Born into Brothels — Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Alex Gibney Grizzly Man — Werner Herzog Mad Hot Ballroom — Marilyn Agrelo Murderball — Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill — Judy Irvin2006An Inconvenient TruthDavis Guggenheim Deliver Us from Evil — Amy J. Berg The Heart of the Game — Ward Serrill Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers — Robert Greenwald Why We Fight — Eugene Jarecki2007SickoMichael Moore In the Shadow of the Moon — David Sington and Christopher Riley The King of Kong — Seth Gordon Manufactured Landscapes — Jennifer Baichwal No End in Sight — Charles H. Ferguson2008Man on WireJames Marsh Body of War — Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue Pray the Devil Back to Hell — Gini Reticker Shine a Light — Martin Scorsese Standard Operating Procedure — Errol Morris2009Capitalism: A Love StoryMichael Moore Anvil! The Story of Anvil — Sacha Gervasi Food, Inc. — Robert Kenner Good Hair — Jeff Stilson Tyson — James Toback

2010s YearFilmDirector(s)Nominees2016I Am Not Your Negro2016-2017 Awards Season Winners Guide - IndieWireAwardsWatch - St. Louis Film Critics Association Winners: La La Lands Sings Its Way to the TopRaoul Peck Weiner‡ — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg De Palma — Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow The Eagle Huntress — Otto Bell Gleason — Clay Tweel2017JaneBrett Morgen City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman Last Men in Aleppo — Feras Fayyad Never Say Goodbye: The KSHE Documentary — Jefferson Arca Whose Streets? — Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis2018Won't You Be My Neighbor?Morgan Neville Free Solo — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin RBG — Julie Cohen and Betsy West Science Fair — Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster Three Identical Strangers — Tim Wardle2019Apollo 11Todd Douglas Miller The Biggest Little Farm — John Chester Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice — Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Where's My Roy Cohn? — Matt Tyrnauer2020CollectiveAlexander Nanau City Hall — Frederick Wiseman Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson My Octopus Teacher — Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed The Social Dilemma — Jeff Orlowski2021FleeJonas Poher Rasmussen The Rescue — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Summer of Soul — Questlove The Velvet Underground — Todd Haynes Tina — Daniel Lindsay and T. J. Martin2022All the Beauty and the BloodshedLaura Poitras Fire of Love — Sara Dosa Good Night Oppy — Ryan White Moonage Daydream — Brett Morgen Sr. — Chris Smith2023American Symphony / Still: A Michael J. Fox MovieMatthew Heineman / Davis Guggenheim Beyond Utopia — Madeleine Gavin It Ain't Over — Sean Mullin Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros — Frederick Wiseman2024No Other LandBasel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor Daughters — Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Music by John Williams — Laurent Bouzereau Sugarcane — Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui Will & Harper — Josh Greenbaum2025Orwell: 2+2=5Raoul Peck 2000 Meters to Andriivka — Mstyslav Chernov Afternoons of Solitude — Albert Serra Deaf President Now! — Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim The Perfect Neighbor — Geeta Gandbhir ‡ Runner-up

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