Category Details
Category Active: 1961 – Present
Note
The comparisons to Oscar below are based on the ACE’s correlation to Best Documentary Feature.
Key
Precursor Winner
[O] – Oscar Nominee
[O] – Oscar Winner
Decade Shortcuts
2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s
2010s
2013
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Blackfish
Tim’s Vermeer
20 Feet from Stardom [O]
2012
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Samsara
Searching for Sugar Man [O]
West of Memphis
2011
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Freedom Riders
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2010
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Exit Through the Gift Shop [O]
Inside Job [O]
Waiting for “Superman”
2000s
2009
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The Cove [O]
Food, Inc. [O]
This Is It
2008
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Bush’s War, Parts 1 and 2
Chicago 10
Man on Wire [O]
2007
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Darfur Now
The Pixar Story
Sicko [O]
2006
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Baghdad ER
An Inconvenient Truth [O]
When the Leaveees Broke, Part 1
2005
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Grizzly Man
James Dean: Forever Young
March of the Penguins [O]
Million Dollar Baby [O]
2004
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Fahrenheit 9/11
My Architect
Riding Giants
2003
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Capturing the Friedmans [O]
The Fog of War [O]
Spellbound
2002
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Bowling for Columbine [O]
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Sonds of Memphis
Shrek
2001
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Chop Suey
The City and the World
The Endurance
2000
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport [O]
Judy’s Time
Shooting War
1990s
1999
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Buena Vista Social Club [O]
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Old Man River
1998
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The Cruise
Dancemaker [O]
The Last Days [O]
1997
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Frank Capra’s American Dream
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Year of the Horse
1996
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Last Feast of the Crocodiles
Looking for Richard
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1995
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Crumb
30 Years of Natioanl Geographic Specials
Unzipped
1994
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Africa: The Serengeti
Hoop Dreams
That’s Entertainment! III
1993
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Baraka
Survivors of the Skeleton
Visions of Light
1992
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
The Donner Party
Fires of Kuwait [O]
MGM: When the Lion Roars
1991
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Berkeley in the Sixties
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Madonna: Truth or Dare
1990
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The Civil War
Journey to the Forgotten River
This Reporter
1980s
1989
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Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
The Great Dinosaur Hunt
Roger & Me
1988
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
The Explorers: A Century of Discovery
Eyes on the Prize
The Thin Blue Line
1987
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Lions of the African Night
Treasures from the Past
Unseen Worlds
1986
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Grizzly: The Shining Mountains
Home Free: Return of the Bald Eagle
Mother Teresa
Realm of the Alligator
1985
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Creation of the Universe
Land of the Tiger
The Statue of Liberty [O]
1984
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
Lions of the Mara
Out of the Ashes
1983
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Adapt or Die
Born of Fire
Say Amen, Somebody
The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time
1982
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Burden of Dreams
The Thames
1981
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Before the Storms of Winter
Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot
The Day After Trinity
1980
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Can’t It Be Anyone Else
The Superliners: Twilight of an Era
Whatever Happened to Lori Jean Lloyd
1970s
1979
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Desert Spring
Gold
1978
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The Living Sands of Namib
Mickey’s 50
The Secret Life of Plants
1977
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Gentile Giants of the Pacific
Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front
Oscar Presents: The War Movies and John Wayne
1976
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Life Goes to the Movies
The Memory of Justice
That’s Entertainment, Part II
1975
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
The Seabirds of Isabela
Search for the Great Apes
This Britainโฆ Heritage of the Sea
1974
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Beautiful People
Following the Tundra Wolf
That’s Entertainment!
1973
DOCUMENTARY EDITING
Flight of the Snow Geese
South to Fire and Ice
Walls of Fire [O]
1972
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The Bengal Tiger
Forgotten Mermaids
Julie
1971
No Award Given
1970
No Award Given
1960s
1969
No Award Given
1968
No Award Given
1967
No Award Given
1966
No Award Given
1965
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A Slice of Sunday
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