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Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

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    Critics' Choice Documentary Award

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    Best Documentary Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      O.J.: Made in America

      8.9 (23K)
    • [object Object]

      Cameraperson

      7.4 (3.5K)
    • [object Object]

      Fuocoammare, par-delà Lampedusa

      6.7 (6.2K)
    • [object Object]

      Gleason

      8.3 (3.2K)
    • [object Object]

      Life, Animated

      7.4 (6.3K)
    • [object Object]

      The 13th

      8.2 (39K)
    • [object Object]

      Tickled

      7.5 (22K)
    • [object Object]

      Tower

      7.9 (8.5K)
    • [object Object]

      Weiner

      7.6 (11K)
    • [object Object]

      The Witness

      7.0 (4.7K)

    Best Documentary Feature (TV/Streaming)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The 13th

      8.2 (39K)
    • [object Object]

      Amanda Knox

      6.9 (27K)
    • [object Object]

      Audrie & Daisy

      7.2 (7.3K)
    • [object Object]

      Avant le déluge

      8.2 (29K)
    • [object Object]

      Fantastic Lies

      8.0 (1.3K)
    • [object Object]

      Holy Hell

      7.0 (6.4K)
    • [object Object]

      Au fin fond de la fournaise

      7.2 (10K)
    • [object Object]

      Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

      7.5 (1.6K)
    • [object Object]

      Rats

      6.5 (1.6K)
    • [object Object]

      Jim: The James Foley Story

      7.6 (1.7K)

    Best Director (Theatrical Feature)

    • Ezra Edelman
      Winner
      • Ezra Edelman
      • O.J.: Made in America
    • Ron Howard at an event for Return to Mayberry (1986)
      • Ron Howard
      • The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
    • Kirsten Johnson
      • Kirsten Johnson
      • Cameraperson
    • Keith Maitland
      • Keith Maitland
      • Tower
    • Clay Tweel
      • Clay Tweel
      • Gleason
    • Roger Ross Williams
      • Roger Ross Williams
      • Life, Animated

    Best Director (TV/Streaming)

    • Ava DuVernay at an event for 30th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards (2015)
      Winner
      • Ava DuVernay
      • The 13th
    • Fenton Bailey at an event for Inside Deep Throat (2005)
      Randy Barbato at an event for Inside Deep Throat (2005)
      • Fenton Bailey
      • Randy Barbato
      • Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
    • Rod Blackhurst
      Brian McGinn
      • Rod Blackhurst
      • Brian McGinn
      • Amanda Knox
    • Werner Herzog at an event for Bad Lieutenant : Escale à la Nouvelle-Orléans (2009)
      • Werner Herzog
      • Au fin fond de la fournaise
    • Morgan Spurlock
      • Morgan Spurlock
      • Rats
    • Fisher Stevens
      • Fisher Stevens
      • Avant le déluge

    Best First Documentary (Theatrical Feature)

    • Josh Kriegman at an event for The Fight (2020)
      Elyse Steinberg at an event for The IMDb Studio at Acura Festival Village (2020)
      Winners
      • Josh Kriegman
      • Elyse Steinberg
      • Weiner
    • Otto Bell
      • Otto Bell
      • La jeune fille et son aigle
    • David Farrier
      Dylan Reeve
      • David Farrier
      • Dylan Reeve
      • Tickled
    • Adam Irving
      • Adam Irving
      • Off the Rails
      • James D. Solomon
      • The Witness
    • Nanfu Wang
      • Nanfu Wang
      • Hooligan Sparrow

    Best First Documentary (TV/Streaming)

    • Jacob Bernstein
      Nick Hooker
      Winners
      • Jacob Bernstein
      • Nick Hooker
      • Everything Is Copy
    • Winner
      • Deborah S. Esquenazi
      • Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
    • Will Allen
      • Will Allen
      • Holy Hell
    • Jessica Edwards
      • Jessica Edwards
      • Mavis!
    • Woodstock, NY
      • Jon Greenhalgh
      • Team Foxcatcher
    • Sophie Robinson
      • Sophie Robinson
      • Lotje Sodderland
      • My Beautiful Broken Brain

    Best Political Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The 13th

      8.2 (39K)
    • [object Object]

      Audrie & Daisy

      7.2 (7.3K)
    • [object Object]

      Newtown

      6.9 (1.7K)
    • [object Object]

      O.J.: Made in America

      8.9 (23K)
    • [object Object]

      Weiner

      7.6 (11K)
    • [object Object]

      Zero Days

      7.7 (11K)

    Best Sports Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      O.J.: Made in America

      8.9 (23K)
    • [object Object]

      Dream Alliance, la victoire inattendue

      7.3 (1.3K)
    • [object Object]

      La jeune fille et son aigle

      7.5 (4.3K)
    • [object Object]

      Fantastic Lies

      8.0 (1.3K)
    • [object Object]

      Gleason

      8.3 (3.2K)
    • [object Object]

      Jackie Robinson

      8.2 (557)
    • [object Object]

      Keepers of the Game

      8.3 (75)

    Best Music Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

      7.8 (14K)
    • [object Object]

      Gimme Danger

      7.2 (6.8K)
    • [object Object]

      Miss Sharon Jones!

      7.3 (715)
    • [object Object]

      The Music of Strangers

      7.7 (764)
    • [object Object]

      Princess Shaw, un conte de fée

      6.9 (612)
    • [object Object]

      We Are X

      7.5 (1.1K)

    Most Innovative Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tower

      7.9 (8.5K)
    • [object Object]

      Cameraperson

      7.4 (3.5K)
    • [object Object]

      Kate Plays Christine

      6.2 (1.3K)
    • [object Object]

      Life, Animated

      7.4 (6.3K)
    • [object Object]

      Nuts!

      7.1 (912)
    • [object Object]

      Under the Sun

      7.4 (5.3K)

    Best Song in a Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Miss Sharon Jones!

      7.3 (715)
      Sharon Jones
      Song: "I'm Still Here"
    • [object Object]

      La jeune fille et son aigle

      7.5 (4.3K)
      Sia
      Song: "Angel by the Wings"
    • [object Object]

      Jim: The James Foley Story

      7.6 (1.7K)
      J. Ralph
      Sting
      Song: "The Empty Chair"
    • [object Object]

      Audrie & Daisy

      7.2 (7.3K)
      Tori Amos
      Song: "Flicker"
    • [object Object]

      Gleason

      8.3 (3.2K)
      Mike McCready
      Song: "Hoping and Healing"
    • [object Object]

      The 13th

      8.2 (39K)
      Common
      Karriem Riggins
      Robert Glasper
      Song: "Letter to the Free"

    Best Limited Documentary Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      O.J.: Made in America

      8.9 (23K)
    • [object Object]

      The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth

      7.3 (1.4K)
    • [object Object]

      The Eighties

      8.2 (1.6K)
    • [object Object]

      Prédateurs

      9.2 (4.5K)
    • [object Object]

      Jackie Robinson

      8.2 (557)
    • [object Object]

      Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music

      8.4 (1.4K)

    Best Ongoing Documentary Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      30 for 30

      8.8 (5.9K)
    • [object Object]

      Frontline

      8.6 (2.5K)
    • [object Object]

      Last Chance U

      8.4 (7.8K)
    • [object Object]

      Morgan Spurlock Inside Man

      8.0 (440)
    • [object Object]

      P.O.V.

      7.9 (268)
    • [object Object]

      This Is Life with Lisa Ling

      8.0 (504)

    Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Danny Says

      6.8 (864)
      Danny Fields
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Gimme Danger

      7.2 (6.8K)
      Iggy Pop
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Cameraperson

      7.4 (3.5K)
      Kirsten Johnson
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Life, Animated

      7.4 (6.3K)
      Owen Suskind
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Miss Sharon Jones!

      7.3 (715)
      Sharon Jones
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Gleason

      8.3 (3.2K)
      Steve Gleason
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Theo Who Lived

      6.9 (123)
      Theo Padnos

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