Submissions for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
These are the lists of documentary films that were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in recent years.
List of selected films and years[]
1999[]
- Amargosa[1]
- American Movie [1]
- Beyond the Mat[1]
- Buena Vista Social Club [1]
- Genghis Blues [1]
- Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.[1]
- On the Ropes [1]
- One Day in September [1]
- Pop & Me[1]
- Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial[1]
- The Source[1]
- Speaking in Strings [1]
2003[]
- The Agronomist[2]
- Balseros [2]
- Bus 174[2]
- Capturing the Friedmans [2]
- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin[2]
- The Fog of War [2]
- Heir to an Execution[2]
- Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story[2]
- Lost Boys of Sudan[2]
- My Architect [2]
- My Flesh and Blood [2]
- The Weather Underground [2]
2004[]
- Born into Brothels [3]
- Home of the Brave[3]
- Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train[3]
- In the Realms of the Unreal[3]
- Riding Giants[3]
- The Ritchie Boys[3]
- The Story of the Weeping Camel [3]
- Super Size Me [3]
- Tell Them Who You Are[3]
- Touching the Void[3]
- Tupac: Resurrection [3]
- Twist of Faith [2]
2005[]
- Darwin's Nightmare [4]
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston [4]
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room [4]
- Mad Hot Ballroom [4]
- March of the Penguins [4]
- Murderball [4]
- Street Fight [4]
2007[]
- Autism: The Musical [5]
- Body of War [5]
- For the Bible Tells Me So [5]
- Lake of Fire [5]
- Nanking[5]
- No End in Sight [5]
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience [5]
- The Price of Sugar [5]
- Please Vote for Me [5]
- Sicko [5]
- Taxi to the Dark Side [5]
- War/Dance [5]
- White Light/Black Rain [5]
2008[]
- The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) [6]
- Encounters at the End of the World [6]
- The Garden [6]
- Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts [6]
- I.O.U.S.A. [6]
- Man on Wire [6]
- Trouble the Water [6]
2010[]
- Exit Through the Gift Shop [7]
- Gasland [7]
- Inside Job [7]
- Restrepo [7]
- The Tillman Story [7]
- Waiting for "Superman" [7]
- Waste Land [7]
2011[]
- Buck
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Battle for Brooklyn
- Hell and Back Again
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Jane's Journey
- The Loving Story
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
- Pina
- Project Nim
- Semper Fi: Always Faithful
- Sing Your Song
- Undefeated
- Under Fire: Journalists in Combat
- We Were Here
2012[]
- Bully [9]
- Chasing Ice (Best Original Song nominee) [9]
- 5 Broken Cameras [9]
- The Gatekeepers [9]
- How to Survive a Plague [9]
- The Invisible War [9]
- Searching for Sugar Man [9]
- This Is Not a Film [9]
2013[]
- The Act of Killing [10]
- Blackfish [10]
- Cutie and the Boxer [10]
- Dirty Wars [10]
- God Loves Uganda [10]
- The Square [10]
- 20 Feet from Stardom [10]
2014[]
- Citizen Koch [11]
- Citizenfour [11]
- Finding Vivian Maier [9]
- The Internet's Own Boy [11]
- Jodorowsky's Dune [11]
- Last Days in Vietnam [11]
- Life Itself [11]
- The Salt of the Earth [11]
- Virunga [9]
2015[]
- Amy [12]
- Batkid Begins [13]
- Best of Enemies [12]
- Cartel Land [12]
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief [12]
- He Named Me Malala [12]
- Heart of a Dog [12]
- The Hunting Ground (Best Original Song nominee) [12]
- I Am Chris Farley [13]
- Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck [13]
- A Lego Brickumentary [13]
- Listen to Me Marlon [12]
- The Look of Silence [12]
- Meru [12]
- Racing Extinction (Best Original Song nominee) [13]
- Tab Hunter Confidential [13]
- What Happened, Miss Simone? [12]
- Where to Invade Next [12]
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom [12]
2016[]
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Week [14]
- Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds [14]
- Cameraperson [14]
- Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words [14]
- Everything is Copy-Nora Ephron:Scriped & Unscripted[14]
- Fire at Sea [14]
- Floyd Norman: An Animated Life [14]
- Gleason [14]
- I Am Not Your Negro [14]
- Jim: The James Foley Story (Best Original Song nominee) [14]
- Life, Animated [14]
- Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise [14]
- Norman Lear: Just Another Vision of You [14]
- OJ: Made in America [14]
- 13th [14]
- Tower [14]
- Weiner [14]
2017[]
- Abacus: Small Enough to Jail [15]
- City of Ghosts [16]
- Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives [17]
- Dawson City: Frozen Time [17]
- Ex Libris: The New York Public Library [15]
- Faces Places [16]
- Gilbert [17]
- Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story [17]
- Icarus [16]
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power [16]
- Jane [16]
- Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond [16]
- LA 92 [15]
- Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992[16]
- Last Men in Aleppo [13]
- Strong Island [15]
- Whitney [17]
2018[]
- Charm City [18]
- Communion [18]
- Crime + Punishment [18]
- Dark Money [18]
- The distance barking of dogs [18]
- Fahrenheit 11/9[18]
- Free Solo [18]
- Hal [18]
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening [18]
- Half the Picture [18]
- Howard [18]
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts [18]
- Love, Gilda [18]
- Minding the Gap [18]
- Of Fathers and Sons [18]
- On Her Shoulders [18]
- The Oslo Diaries [18]
- Pick of the Litter [18]
- Pope Francis-A Man of His Word [18]
- Quincy [18]
- RBG [18]
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind [18]
- Shirkers [18]
- The Silence of Others [18]
- Three Identical Strangers [18]
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? [18]
2019[]
- The Amazing Jonathan Documentary
- American Factory
- Apollo 11
- Ask Dr. Ruth
- Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
- The Cave
- David Crosby: Remember My Name
- Diego Maradona
- The Edge of Democracy
- For Sama
- The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story
- Hail Satan?
- Honeyland
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
- One Child Nation
- Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
- Pavarotti
2020[]
- 76 Days
- Athlete A
- City Hall
- Collective
- Crip Camp
- Dick Johnson Is Dead
- Feels Good Man
- MLK/FBI
- My Octopus Teacher
- The Social Dilemma
- Time
2021[]
- Flee
- Introducing, Selma Blair
- Misha and the Wolves
- Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It'
- Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
- The Sparks Brothers
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
- Summer of Soul
- Val
- The Velvet Underground
- Whirlybird
See also[]
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
- Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film
References[]
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