The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film is the award given for best feature documentary film at the annual National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) Awards. The category was introduced in 1985 and was originally named Best Documentary.
List of winning films Year (ceremony)FilmDirector(s)1984 (19th) Stop Making SenseJonathan DemmePast Awards|National Society of Film Critics1985 (20th) ShoahClaude Lanzmann1986 (21st) MarleneMaximilian Schell1987 (22nd)N/A1988 (23rd) The Thin Blue LineErrol Morris1989 (24th)Roger & MeMichael Moore1990 (25th) Berkeley in the SixtiesMark Kitchell1991 (26th) Paris Is BurningJennie Livingston1992 (27th) American DreamBarbara Kopple1993 (28th) Visions of LightArnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels1994 (29th) Hoop DreamsSteve James1995 (30th) CrumbTerry ZwigoffBabe' Is Chosen as Best Film By National Society of Critics - The New York Times1996 (31st) When We Were KingsLeon Gast1997 (32nd) Fast, Cheap & Out of ControlErrol Morris1998 (33rd) The Farm: Angola, USALiz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau and Jonathan Stack1999 (34th) Buena Vista Social ClubWim Wenders2000 (35th) The Life and Times of Hank GreenbergAviva Kempner2001 (36th) The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse)Agnès Varda2002 (37th) Standing in the Shadows of MotownPaul Justman2003 (38th) To Be and to Have (Être et avoir)Nicolas Philibert2004 (39th) TarnationJonathan Caouette2005 (40th) Grizzly Man Werner Herzog2006 (41st) An Inconvenient TruthDavis Guggenheim2007 (42nd) No End in SightCharles H. Ferguson2008 (43rd) Man on WireJames Marsh2009 (44th) The Beaches of Agnès (Les plages d'Agnès)Agnès VardaNational Society of Film Critics give top awards to 'The Hurt Locker' - Pop Matters2010 (45th) Inside JobCharles H. FergusonSocial Network' dominates the National Society of Film Critics awards (Updated)|Awards Tracker|Los Angeles Times2011 (46th) Cave of Forgotten DreamsWerner Herzog2012 (47th) The GatekeepersDror MorehNational Society of Film Critics awards top honors to Israeli documentary ‘The Gatekeepers’|The Times of Israel2013 (48th) The Act of Killing Joshua OppenheimerNational Society of Film Critics Awards 2013: Winners: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS|FilmBook At Berkeley Frederick Wiseman2014 (49th) Citizenfour Laura Poitras2015 (50th) Amy Asif Kapadia‘Spotlight’ Shines at National Society of Film Critics Awards|IndieWire2016 (51st) O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman2017 Faces Places (Visages Villages) Agnès Varda and JR‘Lady Bird’ Named Best Picture By National Society Of Film Critics – Complete List – Deadline2018 Minding the Gap Bing LiuNational Society of Film Critics Names ‘The Rider’ Best Picture — Variety2019 (54th)Honeyland Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir StefanovBong Joon Ho’s ‘Parasite’ wins best picture at National Society of Film Critics awards - Los Angeles Times2020 Time Garrett Bradley‘Nomadland’ Named Best Film by National Society of Film Critics|The Wrap 2021 Flee Jonas Poher RasmussenNational Society of Film Critics 2022 Winners List - The Hollywood Reporter2022 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras‘TÁR’ and ‘Aftersun’ Win Big at National Society of Film Critics Awards (Complete Winners List)|IndieWire2023 (58th)Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros Frederick Wiseman2024 (59th)No Other LandBasel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor2025 (60th)My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in MoscowJulia Loktev
Multiple winners Agnès Varda - 3 Werner Herzog - 2 Errol Morris - 2 Laura Poitras - 2 Frederick Wiseman - 2
See also Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature
References
External links National Society of Film Critics Awards at the Internet Movie Database