Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary is an annual award given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Winners and nominees 2000s YearDocumentaryDirector(s) 2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen Standing in the Shadows of Motown Paul Justman 2003 The Fog of War Errol MorrisAmandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part HarmonyLee HirschCapturing the FriedmansAndrew JareckiStep into LiquidDana BrownTupac: ResurrectionLauren Lazin 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore 2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Alex GibneyGrizzly ManWerner HerzogMad Hot BallroomMarilyn AgreloMarch of the PenguinsLuc JacquetMurderballHenry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro 2006 An Inconvenient Truth Davis Guggenheim 2007 Sicko Michael Moore 2008 Man on Wire James Marsh 2009"Air" Leads D.C. Critics Winners|IndieWire Food, Inc. Robert Kenner Anvil! The Story of Anvil Sacha Gervasi Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore The Cove Louie Psihoyos Good Hair Jeff Stilson

2010s YearDocumentaryDirector(s) 2010 Exit Through the Gift Shop Banksy Inside Job Charles Ferguson Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger The Tillman Story Amir Bar-Lev Waiting for "Superman" Davis Guggenheim 2011 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey Constance Marks Buck Cindy Meehl Into the Abyss Werner Herzog Project Nim James Marsh 2012 Bully Lee Hirsch The Imposter Bart Layton The Invisible War Kirby Dick The Queen of Versailles Lauren Greenfield Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul 2013 Blackfish Gabriela Cowperthwaite 20 Feet from Stardom Morgan Neville The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer Leviathan Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel Stories We Tell Sarah Polley 2014 Life Itself Steve James Citizenfour Laura Poitras Jodorowsky's Dune Frank Pavich Last Days in Vietnam Rory Kennedy The Overnighters Jesse Moss 2015'Spotlight' Named Top Film by D.C.-Area Film Critics|Hollywood Reporter Amy Asif Kapadia Best of Enemies Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville Cartel Land Matthew Heineman Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Alex Gibney The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer 2016 13th Ava DuVernay Gleason Clay Tweel I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman Weiner Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg 2017 Jane Brett Morgen City of Ghosts Matthew Heineman Faces Places Agnès Varda and JR An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk Step Amanda Lipitz 2018 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin RBG Betsy West and Julie Cohen Science Fair Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster Three Identical Strangers Tim Wardle 2019 Apollo 11 Todd Douglas Miller American Factory Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert For Sama Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts Honeyland Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev One Child Nation Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

2020s YearDocumentaryDirector(s) 2020 Boys State Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine Collective Alexander Nanau Crip Camp Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht Dick Johnson Is Dead Kirsten Johnson Time Garrett Bradley 2021 Summer of Soul Questlove The First Wave Matthew Heineman Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen The Rescue Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Val Leo Scott and Ting Poo 2022DC Film Critics Name Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Movie Of The Year - Punch Drunk Critics Good Night Oppy Ryan White All That Breathes Shaunak Sen All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras Descendant Margaret Brown Fire of Love Sara Dosa 2023AwardsWatch - 2023 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners: 'American Fiction' is Best Feature, 'Oppenheimer' Takes Six American Symphony David Guggenheim 20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov Little Richard: I Am Everything Lisa Cortés Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie Davis Guggenheim They Shot the Piano Player Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal 2024 Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui Dahomey Mati Diop Daughters Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Music by John Williams Laurent Bouzereau No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor Will & Harper Josh Greenbaum

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See also Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature