Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film
Satellite Award for Best Documentary | |
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Awarded for | Best Documentary |
Country | United States |
Presented by | International Press Academy |
First awarded | 1997 (awarded to 4 Little Girls) |
Currently held by | Collective (2020) |
The Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual award given by the International Press Academy.
Winners and nominees[]
1990s[]
Year | Film | Director(s) |
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1997 [1] |
4 Little Girls | Spike Lee |
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris | |
Hype! | Doug Pray | |
Shooting Porn | Ronnie Larsen | |
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist | Kirby Dick | |
1998 [2] |
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life | Michael Paxton |
The Cruise | Bennett Miller | |
The Farm: Angola, USA | Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack | |
Kurt & Courtney | Nick Broomfield | |
Public Housing | Frederick Wiseman | |
1999 [3] |
Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders |
42: Forty Two Up | Michael Apted | |
American Movie | Chris Smith | |
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | Errol Morris | |
Return with Honor | Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders | |
The Source | Chuck Workman |
2000s[]
Year | Film | Director(s) |
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2000 [4] |
Reckless Indifference | William Gazecki |
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies | Hugh Munro Neely | |
Dark Days | Marc Singer | |
The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | |
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris | |
One Day in September | Kevin Macdonald | |
2001 [5][6] |
In Cane for Life (A Vida em Cana) | Jorge W. Atalla |
Calle 54 | Fernando Trueba | |
My Voyage to Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia) | Martin Scorsese | |
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Jan Harlan | |
2002 [7] |
The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen |
Biggie and Tupac | Nick Broomfield | |
Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | |
The Cockettes | Bill Weber, David Weissman | |
Dogtown and Z-Boys | Stacy Peralta | |
2003 [8] |
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Lee Hirsch |
Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki | |
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | Errol Morris | |
Lost in La Mancha | Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe | |
My Flesh and Blood | Jonathan Karsh | |
Stevie | Steve James | |
2004 [9] |
Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock |
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids | Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman | |
The Fuente Family: An American Dream | James Orr | |
Lightning in a Bottle | Antoine Fuqua | |
Touching the Void | Kevin Macdonald | |
Tupac: Resurrection | Lauren Lazin | |
2005 [10] |
Mad Hot Ballroom | Marilyn Agrelo |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney | |
Favela Rising | Matt Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist | |
March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur) | Luc Jacquet | |
Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro | |
New York Doll | Greg Whiteley | |
2006 [11][12] |
Deliver Us from Evil | Amy Berg |
An Inconvenient Truth | David Guggenheim | |
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple | Stanley Nelson | |
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man | Lian Lunson | |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon | David Leaf, John Scheinfeld | |
The War Tapes | Deborah Scranton | |
2007 [13][14] |
Sicko | Michael Moore |
The 11th Hour | Nadia Conners, Leila Conners | |
Darfur Now | Ted Braun | |
The King of Kong | Seth Gordon | |
Lake of Fire | Tony Kaye | |
No End in Sight | Charles Ferguson | |
2008 [15] |
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer | Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden |
Man on Wire | James Marsh | |
Encounters at the End of the World | Werner Herzog | |
Pray the Devil Back to Hell | Gini Reticker | |
Religulous | Larry Charles | |
Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir) | Ari Folman | |
2009 [16][17] |
Every Little Step | James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo |
The Beaches of Agnès | Agnès Varda | |
The Cove | Louie Psihoyos | |
It Might Get Loud | Davis Guggenheim | |
The September Issue | R.J. Cutler | |
Valentino: The Last Emperor | Matt Tyrnauer |
2010s[]
Year | Film | Director(s) |
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2010 [18] |
Restrepo | Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington |
Behind the Burly Q | Leslie Zemeckis | |
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Alex Gibney | |
Countdown to Zero | Lucy Walker | |
A Film Unfinished | Yael Hersonski | |
Inside Job | Charles Ferguson | |
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work | Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg | |
Sequestro | Jorge Wolney Atalla Junior | |
The Tillman Story | Amir Bar-Lev | |
Waiting for "Superman" | Davis Guggenheim | |
2011 [19][20] |
Senna | Asif Kapadia |
American: The Bill Hicks Story | Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas | |
Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Werner Herzog | |
The Interrupters | Steve James | |
My Perestroika | Robin Hessman | |
One Lucky Elephant | Lisa Leeman | |
Pina | Wim Wenders | |
Project Nim | James Marsh | |
Tabloid | Errol Morris | |
Under Fire: Journalists in Combat | Martyn Burke | |
2012 [21][22] |
Chasing Ice | Jeff Orlowski |
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | Alison Klayman | |
The Central Park Five | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | |
The Gatekeepers | Dror Moreh | |
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present | Matthew Akers | |
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth | Chad Freidrichs | |
Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul | |
West of Memphis | Amy J. Berg | |
2013 [23][24] |
Blackfish | Gabriela Cowperthwaite |
20 Feet from Stardom | Morgan Neville | |
The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer | |
After Tiller | Martha Shane, Lana Wilson | |
American Promise | Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson | |
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie | Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger | |
Sound City | Dave Grohl | |
The Square | Jehane Noujaim | |
Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley | |
Tim's Vermeer | Teller | |
2014 [25][26] |
Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq | Nancy Buirski | |
Art and Craft | Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman | |
Finding Vivian Maier | John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | |
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | James Keach | |
Jodorowsky's Dune | Frank Pavich | |
Keep on Keepin' On | Alan Hicks | |
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Chuck Workman | |
Red Army | Gabe Polsky | |
Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel | |
2015 [27] |
Amy | Asif Kapadia |
The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | |
Becoming Bulletproof | Michael Barnett | |
Best of Enemies | Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville | |
Cartel Land | Matthew Heineman | |
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Alex Gibney | |
He Named Me Malala | Davis Guggenheim | |
The Hunting Ground | Kirby Dick | |
National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Douglas Tirola | |
Where to Invade Next | Michael Moore | |
2016 [28] |
13th | Ava DuVernay |
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week | Ron Howard | |
The Eagle Huntress | Otto Bell | |
Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi | |
Gleason | Clay Tweel | |
The Ivory Game | Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson | |
Life, Animated | Roger Ross Williams | |
O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman | |
Tower | Keith Maitland | |
Zero Days | Alex Gibney | |
2017 [29][30] |
Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski |
City of Ghosts | Matthew Heineman | |
Cries from Syria | Evgeny Afineevsky | |
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library | Frederick Wiseman | |
Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS | Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested | |
Human Flow | Ai Weiwei | |
Icarus | Bryan Fogel | |
Kedi | Ceyda Torun | |
Legion of Brothers | Greg Barker | |
2018 [31] |
Minding the Gap | Bing Liu |
Crime + Punishment | Stephen Maing | |
Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | |
RBG | Betsy West, Julie Cohen | |
Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle | |
Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville | |
2019 [32] |
63 Up | Michael Apted |
The Apollo | Roger Ross Williams | |
Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller | |
The Cave | Feras Fayyad | |
Citizen K | Alex Gibney | |
For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | |
Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov | |
One Child Nation | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang |
2020s[]
Year | Film | Director(s) |
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2020 [33][34] |
Collective | Alexander Nanau |
Acasa, My Home | Radu Ciorniciuc | |
Circus of Books | Rachel Mason | |
Coup 53 | Rachel Mason | |
Crip Camp | Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht | |
The Dissident | Bryan Fogel | |
Gunda | Viktor Kossakovsky | |
MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | |
A Most Beautiful Thing | Mary Mazzio | |
The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | |
2021 [35] | ||
Ascension | Jessica Kingdon | |
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road | Brent Wilson | |
Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | |
Introducing, Selma Blair |
Rachel Fleit | |
Julia | Julie Cohen and Betsy West | |
Procession | Robert Greene | |
The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin | |
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Amir "Questlove" Thompson | |
Val | Leo Scott and Ting Poo | |
The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes |
Multiple wins[]
- Asif Kapadia-2 (one tied with Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Jeff Orlowski-2
See also[]
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature
References[]
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External links[]
Categories:
- Satellite Awards
- American documentary film awards
- Awards established in 1997