The Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director is one of the awards presented annually by Critics Choice Association since the awards debuted in 2016.
Winners and nominees + Table key Indicates the winner of Best Documentary Feature
2010s
Year Director(s) Film2016O.J.: Made in America The Beatles: Eight Days a Week Cameraperson Tower Gleason Life, Animated2017Cries from SyriaEx Libris: The New York Public Library Long Strange Trip City of Ghosts Dawson City: Frozen Time California Typewriter Chasing Coral Beware the Slenderman Kedi and JR Faces Places2018Won't You Be My Neighbor? and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Free Solo Minding the Gap Dark Money Hitler's Hollywood Three Identical Strangers2019They Shall Not Grow Old and Julia ReichertAmerican Factory and Edward Watts For Sama The Biggest Little Farm The Cave Apollo 11 and Jialing Zhang One Child Nation
2020s
Year Director(s) Film2020Dick Johnson Is Dead Time and Jon Shenk Athlete A Gunda and Nicole Newnham Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution John Lewis: Good Trouble The Painter and the Thief2021 and Jimmy ChinThe Rescue Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Becoming Cousteau Ascension and Traci A. Curry Attica Flee The Sparks Brothers2022Good Night Oppy and Michael Bonfiglio George Carlin's American Dream Descendant Fire of Love Sidney Moonage Daydream All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Navalny2023 Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie The Eternal Memory Madeleine Gavin Beyond Utopia American Symphony The Mission Occupied City2024 Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Will & Harper Jim Henson Idea Man and Sugarcane Natalie Rae and Daughters The Remarkable Life of Ibelin2025 (10th)Geeta GandbhirThe Perfect NeighborMstyslav Chernov 2000 Meters to AndriivkaPetra Costa Apocalypse in the TropicsNyle DiMarco and Davis GuggenheimDeaf President Now!Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman The Alabama Solution Raoul Peck Orwell: 2+2=5
Multiple nominations Nominations Director2 Jimmy Chin David Guggenheim Ron Howard Kirsten Johnson Benjamin Ree Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
References
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