Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Documentary (bold face indicates winner):

• 2007 (Feature)
  • No End in Sight - Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
  • Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience - Richard E. Robbins
  • Sicko - Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara
  • Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney, Eva Orner
  • War/Dance - Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine
• 2007 (Short Subject)
  • Freeheld - Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth
  • La Corona (The Crown - Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega
  • Salim Baba - Tim Sternberg, Francisco Bello
  • Sari's Mother - James Longley
• 2006 (Feature)
  • Deliver Us from Evil - Amy Berg, Frank Donner
  • An Inconvenient Truth - Davis Guggenheim
  • Iraq in Fragments - James Longley, John Sinno
  • Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
  • My Country, My Country - Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
• 2006 (Short Subject)
  • The Blood of Yingzhou District - Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
  • Recycled Life - Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad
  • Rehearsing a Dream - [Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
  • Two Hands - Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr
• 2005 (Feature)
  • Darwin's Nightmare - Hubert Sauper
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot
  • March of the Penguins - Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau
  • Murderball - Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
  • Street Fight - Marshall Curry
• 2005 (Short Subject)
  • The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club - Dan Krauss
  • God Sleeps in Rwanda - Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
  • The Mushroom Club - Steven Okazaki
  • A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin - Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson
• 2004 (Feature)
  • Born into Brothels - Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
  • The Story of the Weeping Camel - Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa
  • Super Size Me - Morgan Spurlock
  • Tupac: Resurrection - Lauren Lazin, Karolyn Ali
  • Twist of Faith - Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt
• 2004 (Short Subject)
  • Autism Is a World - Gerardine Wurzburg
  • The Children of Leningradsky - Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski
  • Hardwood - Hubert Davis, Erin Faith Young
  • Mighty Times: The Children's March - Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
  • Sister Rose's Passion - Oren Jacoby, Steve Kalafer
• 2003 (Feature)
  • Balseros - Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Domenech
  • Capturing the Friedmans - Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling
  • The Fog of War - Errol Morris, Michael Williams
  • My Architect - Nathaniel Kahn, Susan R. Behr
  • The Weather Underground - Sam Green,Bill Siegel
• 2003 (Short Subject)
  • Asylum - Sandy McLeod, Gini Reticker
  • Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
  • Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
• 2002 (Feature)
  • Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore, Michael Donovan
  • Daughter from Danang - Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
  • Prisoner of Paradise - Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
  • Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch
  • Winged Migration - Jacques Perrin
• 2002 (Short Subject)
  • The Collector of Bedford Street - Alice Elliott
  • Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
  • Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port
  • Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel
• 2001 (Feature)
  • Children Underground - Edet Belzberg
  • LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton - Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson
  • Murder on a Sunday Morning - Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet
  • Promises - Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
  • War Photographer - Christian Frei
• 2001 (Short Subject)
  • Artists and Orphans: A True Drama - Lianne Klapper McNally
  • Sing! - Freida Lee Mock, Jessica Sanders
  • Thoth - Sarah Kernochan, Lynn Appelle
• 2000 (Feature)
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport - Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
  • Legacy - Tod S. Lending
  • Long Night's Journey Into Day -Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann
  • Scottsboro: An American Tragedy -Barak Goodman -Daniel Anker
  • Sound and Fury - Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg
• 2000 (Short Subject)
  • Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
  • Curtain Call - Chuck Braverman, Steve Kalafer
  • Dolphins - Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
  • The Man on Lincoln's Nose - Daniel Raim
  • On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom - Eric Simonson, Leelai Demoz
• 1999 (Feature)
  • Buena Vista Social Club - Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
  • Genghis Blues - Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
  • On the Ropes - Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
  • One Day in September - Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
  • Speaking in Strings - Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster
• 1999 (Short Subject)
  • Eyewitness - Bert Van Bork
  • King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
  • The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo - Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack
• 1998 (Feature)
  • Dancemaker - Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer
  • The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. - Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus
  • The Last Days - James Moll, Ken Lipper
  • Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth - Robert B. Weide
  • Regret To Inform - Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole
• 1998 (Short Subject)
  • The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years - Keiko Ibi
  • A Place in the Land - Charles Guggenheim
  • Sunrise over Tiananmen Square - Shui-Bo Wang, Donald McWilliams
• 1997 (Feature)
  • 4 Little Girls - Spike Lee, Sam Pollard
  • Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life - Michael Paxton
  • Colors Straight Up - Michele Ohayon, Julia Schachter
  • The Long Way Home - Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
  • Waco: The Rules of Engagement - Dan Gifford, William Gazecki
• 1997 (Short Subject)
  • Alaska: Spirit of the Wild - George Casey, Paul Novros
  • Amazon - Kieth Merrill, Jonathan Stern
  • Daughter of the Bride - Terri Randall
  • Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies - Mel Damski, Andrea Blaugrund
  • A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
• 1996 (Feature)
  • The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story - Susan W. Dryfoos
  • Mandela - Jo Menell, Angus Gibson
  • Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse - Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson
  • Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press - Rick Goldsmith
  • When We Were Kings - Leon Gast, David Sonenberg
• 1996 (Short Subject)
  • Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu
  • Cosmic Voyage - Jeffrey Marvin, Bayley Silleck
  • An Essay on Matisse - Perry Wolff
  • Special Effects - Susanne Simpson, Ben Burtt
  • The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage - Paul Seydor, Nick Redman
• 1995 (Feature)
  • Anne Frank Remembered - Jon Blair
  • The Battle over Citizen Kane - Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein
  • Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program - Allan Miller, Walter Scheuer
  • Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream - Mike Tollin, Fredric Golding
  • Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern - Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher
• 1995 (Short Subject)
  • Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls - Nancy Dine, Richard Stilwell
  • The Living Sea - Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
  • Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper - Terry Sanders, Freida Lee Mock
  • One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
  • The Shadow of Hate - Charles Guggenheim
• 1994 (Feature)
  • Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter - Deborah Hoffmann
  • D-Day Remembered - Charles Guggenheim
  • Freedom on My Mind - Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
  • A Great Day in Harlem - Jean Bach
  • Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision - Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
• 1994 (Short Subject)
  • 89mm od Europy (89mm from Europe) - Marcel Lozinski
  • Blues Highway - Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag
  • School of the Americas Assassins - Robert Richter
  • Straight from the Heart - Dee Mosbacher, Frances Reid
  • A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
• 1993 (Feature)
  • The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter - David Paperny, Arthur Ginsberg
  • Children of Fate - Susan Todd, Andrew Young
  • For Better or For Worse - David Collier, Betsy Thompson
  • I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School - Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond
  • The War Room - D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
• 1993 (Short Subject)
  • Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Steven Cantor, Peter Spirer
  • Chicks in White Satin - Elaine Holliman, Jason Schneider
  • Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
• 1992 (Feature)
  • Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker - David Haugland
  • Fires of Kuwait - Sally Dundas
  • Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II - William Miles, Nina Rosenblum
  • Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann - Margaret Smilow, Roma Baran
  • The Panama Deception - Barbara Trent, David Kasper
• 1992 (Short Subject)
  • At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai - Geoffrey O'Connor
  • Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the Little Review - Wendy L. Weinberg
  • The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein - Richard Elson, Sally Bochner
  • Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg
  • When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman
• 1991 (Feature)
  • Death on the Job - Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag
  • Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House - Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond
  • In the Shadow of the Stars - Allie Light, Irving Saraf
  • The Restless Conscience - Hava Kohav Beller
  • Wild by Law - Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey
• 1991 (Short Subject)
  • Birdnesters of Thailand (aka Shadow Hunters) - Eric Valli, Alain Majani
  • Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff
  • A Little Vicious - Immy Humes
  • The Mark of the Maker - David McGowan
  • Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers - Bill Couturié, Bernard Edelman
• 1990 (Feature)
  • American Dream - Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn
  • Berkeley in the Sixties - Mark Kitchell
  • Building Bombs - Mark Mori, Susan Robinson
  • Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - Judith Montell
  • Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey - Robert Hillmann, Eugene Corr
• 1990 (Short Subject)
  • Burning Down Tomorrow - Kit Thomas
  • Chimps: So Like Us - Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
  • Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki
  • Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn - Derek Bromhall
  • Rose Kennedy: A Life To Remember - Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
• 1989 (Feature)
  • Adam Clayton Powell - Richard Killberg, Yvonne Smith
  • Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt - Robert Epstein, Bill Couturié
  • Crack USA: County Under Siege - Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag
  • For All Mankind - Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier
  • Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren - Judith Leonard, Bill Jersey
• 1989 (Short Subject)
  • Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 - David Petersen
  • The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim
  • Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future - Ray Errol Fox
• 1988 (Feature)
  • The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naude: An Afrikaner Speaks Out - Robert Bilheimer, Ronald Mix
  • Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Marcel Ophuls
  • Let's Get Lost - Bruce Weber, Nan Bush
  • Promises to Keep - Ginny Durrin
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin? - Renee Tajima, Christine Choy
• 1988 (Short Subject)
  • The Children's Storefront - Karen Goodman
  • Family Gathering - Lise Yasui, Ann Tegnell
  • Gang Cops - Thomas B. Fleming, Daniel J. Marks
  • Portrait of Imogen - Nancy Hale, Meg Partridge
  • You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke
• 1987 (Feature)
  • Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965 - Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney
  • Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima - John Junkerman, John W. Dower
  • Radio Bikini - Robert Stone
  • A Stitch for Time - Barbara Herbich, Cyril Christo
  • The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table - Aviva Slesin
• 1987 (Short Subject)
  • Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller - Deborah Dickson
  • In the Wee Wee Hours... - Dr. Frank Daniel, Izak Ben-Meir
  • Language Says It All - Megan Williams
  • Silver into Gold - Lynn Mueller
  • Young at Heart - Sue Marx, Pamela Conn
• 1986 (Feature)
  • Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got - Brigitte Berman
  • Down and Out in America - Joseph Feury, Milton Justice
  • Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer - Kirk Simon, Amram Nowak
  • Witness to Apartheid - Sharon I. Sopher
  • ÀChile: Hasta Cuando? - David Bradbury
• 1986 (Short Subject)
  • Debonair Dancers - Alison Nigh-Strelich
  • The Masters of Disaster - Sonya Friedman
  • Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse - Thomas L. Neff, Madeline Bell
  • Sam - Aaron D. Weisblatt
  • Women--for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe
• 1985 (Feature)
  • Broken Rainbow - Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd
  • Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo - Susana Muñoz, Lourdes Portillo
  • Soldiers in Hiding - Japhet Asher
  • The Statue of Liberty - Ken Burns, Buddy Squires
  • Unfinished Business - Steven Okazaki
• 1985 (Short Subject)
  • The Courage To Care - Robert Gardner
  • Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date - Michael Crowley, James Wolpaw
  • Making Overtures--The Story of a Community Orchestra - Barbara Willis Sweete
  • Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman
  • The Wizard of the Strings - Alan Edelstein
• 1984 (Feature)
  • High Schools - Charles Guggenheim, Nancy Sloss
  • In the Name of the People - Alex W. Drehsler, Frank Christopher
  • Marlene - Karel Dirka, Zev Braun
  • Streetwise - Cheryl McCall
  • The Times of Harvey Milk - Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen
• 1984 (Short Subject)
  • The Children of Soong Ching Ling - Gary Bush, Paul T.K. Lin
  • Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing - Ben Achtenberg, Joan Sawyer
  • The Garden of Eden - Lawrence R. Hott, Roger M. Sherman
  • Recollections of Pavlovsk - Irina Kalinina
  • The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner
• 1983 (Feature)
  • Children of Darkness - Richard Kotuk, Ara Chekmayan
  • First Contact - Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
  • He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' - Emile Ardolino
  • The Profession of Arms - Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen
  • Seeing Red - James Klein, Julia Reichert
• 1983 (Short Subject)
  • Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott, Adam Symansky
  • In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? - Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thiermann
  • Sewing Woman - Arthur Dong
  • Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph - Robert Eisenhardt
  • You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei) - Dea Brokman, Ilene Landis
• 1982 (Feature)
  • After the Axe - Sturla Gunnarsson, Steve Lucas
  • Ben's Mill - John Karol, Michel Chalufour
  • In Our Water - Meg Switzgable
  • Just Another Missing Kid - John Zaritsky
  • A Portrait of Giselle - Joseph Wishy
• 1982 (Short Subject)
  • Gods of Metal - Robert Richter
  • If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain, Terri Nash
  • The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America - Charles Guggenheim, Werner Schumann
  • To Live or Let Die - Freida Lee Mock
  • Traveling Hopefully - John G. Avildsen
• 1981 (Feature)
  • Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey - Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin, Jim Burroughs
  • Brooklyn Bridge - Ken Burns
  • Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott - Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson, Boyd Estus
  • El Salvador: Another Vietnam - Glenn Silber, Tete Vasconcellos
  • Genocide - Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier
• 1981 (Short Subject)
  • Americas in Transition - Obie Benz
  • Close Harmony - Nigel Noble
  • Journey for Survival - Dick Young
  • See What I Say - Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc, Freddi Stevens
  • Urge To Build - Roland Hallé, John Hoover
• 1980 (Feature)
  • Agee - Ross Spears
  • The Day After Trinity - Jon Else
  • From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China - Murray Lerner
  • Front Line - David Bradbury
  • The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 - Bengt von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn
• 1980 (Short Subject)
  • Don't Mess with Bill - John Watson, Pen Densham
  • The Eruption of Mount St. Helens - George Casey
  • It's the Same World - Dick Young
  • Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hallé, Peter W. Ladue
  • Luther Metke at 94 - Richard Hawkins, Jorge Preloran
• 1979 (Feature)
  • Best Boy - Ira Wohl
  • Generation on the Wind - David A. Vassar