| Best Feature Length Documentary AACTA Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) |
| First award | 2009 |
| Currently held by | Mrs Carey’s Concert (2011) |
| Website | http://www.aacta.org |
The AACTA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary, is a non-feature film award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) to an Australian documentary that is longer than sixty minutes in duration and "is a creative treatment of actuality other than a news, current affairs, sports coverage, magazine, infotainment or light entertainment program. [1] Prior to the establishment of the Academy in 2011, the award was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI) at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (more commonly known as the AFI Awards) from 2009–2010. [2] A single award for Best Documentary was handed out from 1958–2008, before it was split into three categories: Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Documentary Under One Hour and Best Documentary Series. [2] The award is presented at the AACTA Awards Luncheon, a black tie event which celebrates achievements in film production, television, documentaries and short films. [3] [4]
In the following table, winners are listed first, in boldface and highlighted in gold; those listed below the winner that are not in boldface or highlighted are the nominees. [5]
| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 (50th) | Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! | Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch |
| Beyond Our Ken | Luke Walker | |
| The Oasis | Ian Darling | |
| Rare Chicken Rescue | Vickie Gest | |
| 2009 (51st) | Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts | Scott Hicks, Susanne Preisler |
| Bastardy | Philippa Campey, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Lynn-Maree Milburn, Andrew de Groot | |
| The Choir | Chris Hilton, Michael Davie | |
| Lionel | Lizzette Atkins | |
| 2010 (52nd) | Contact | Martin Butler, Bentley Dean |
| Inside the Firestorm | Lucy Maclaren, Alex West | |
| The Snowman | Rachel Landers, Dylan Blowen | |
| Strange Birds in Paradise - A West Papuan Story | Jamie Nicolai, John Cherry |
| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 (1st) | Mrs Carey's Concert | Bob Connolly , Helen Panckhurst and Sophie Raymond |
| Life in Movement | Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason | |
| Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure | Sophie Hyde and Matthew Bate | |
| The Tall Man | Darren Dale | |
| 2012 (2nd) | Storm Surfers 3D | Ellenor Cox and Marcus Gillezeau |
| A Common Purpose | Mitzi Goldman | |
| The Curse of the Gothic Symphony | Veronica Fury | |
| Dr Sarmast's Music School | Beth Frey | |
| 2013 (3rd) | Red Obsession | Warwick Ross |
| I Am A Girl | Rebecca Barry | |
| Once My Mother | Rod Freedman | |
| Shadow of Doubt | Eve Ash | |
| 2014 (4th) | Ukraine is Not a Brothel | Kitty Green, Jonathan auf der Heide and Michael Latham |
| All This Mayhem | George Pank, Eddie Martin and James Gay-Rees | |
| Deepsea Challenge 3D | Andrew Wight and Brett Popplewell | |
| The Last Impresario | Nicole O'Donohue | |
| 2015 (5th) | That Sugar Film | Nick Batzias and Damon Gameau |
| Gayby Baby | Charlotte Mars | |
| Only the Dead | Patrick McDonald and Michael Ware | |
| Sherpa | Bridget Ikin and John Smithson | |
| Women He's Undressed | Damien Parer and Gillian Armstrong | |
| 2016 (6th) | Chasing Asylum | Eva Orner |
| In the Shadow of the Hill | Dan Jackson | |
| Remembering the Man | Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe | |
| Snow Monkey | Lizzette Atkins and George Gittoes | |
| 2017 (7th) | Casting JonBenet | Kitty Green, Scott Macaulay, James Schamus |
| David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Jo-anne McGowan | |
| Deep Water: The Real Story | Darren Dale | |
| Whiteley | Sue Clothier, James Bogle, Peta Ayers | |
| Zach's Ceremony | Sarah Linton, Alec Doomadgee | |
| 2018 (8th) | Gurrumul | Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan |
| Ghosthunter | Ben Lawrence, Rebecca Bennett | |
| Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible | Axel Grigor, Faramarz K-Rahber | |
| Mountain | Jennifer Peedom, Jo-anne McGowan | |
| Working Class Boy | Mark Joffe, Matt Campbell, Andrew Farrell, Michael Cordell | |
| 2019 (8th) | The Australian Dream | Daniel Gordon, Sarah Thomson, Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell, John Battsek |
| The Eulogy | Janine Hosking, Katey Grusovin, Trish Lake | |
| The Final Quarter | The Final Quarter — Ian Darling, Mary Macrae | |
| In My Blood It Runs | Maya Newell, Sophie Hyde, Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson, Larissa Behrendt | |
| Mystify: Michael Hutchence | Richard Lowenstein, Maya Gnyp, John Battsek, Sue Murray, Mark Fennessy, Lynn-Maree Milburn, Andrew de Groot | |
| 2020 (10th) | Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra | Nel Minchin, Wayne Blair, Ivan O’Mahoney |
| Brazen Hussies | Catherine Dwyer, Andrea Foxworthy, Philippa Campey | |
| Brock: Over the Top | Kriv Stenders, Veronica Fury, Alan Erson, Ruby Schmid | |
| Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky | Steven McGregor, Danielle MacLean, Anna Grieve, Steven Thomas | |
| Slim & I | Kriv Stenders, Chris Brown, Aline Jacques, James Arneman | |
| Suzi Q | Liam Firmager, Tait Brady | |
| 2021 (11th) | My Name Is Gulpilil | Molly Reynolds, Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr, David Gulpilil |
| Girls Can't Surf | Christopher Nelius, Michaela Perske | |
| I'm Wanita | Matthew Walker, Carolina Sorensen, Clare Lewis, Tait Brady | |
| Playing With Sharks | Sally Aitken, Bettina Dalton | |
| Strong Female Lead | Tosca Looby, Karina Holden | |
| When the Camera Stopped Rolling | Jane Castle, Pat Fiske | |
| 2022 (12th) | River | Jennifer Peedom, Joseph Nizeti, Jo-anne McGowan, John Smithson |
| Ablaze | Alec Morgan, Tiriki Onus, Tom Zubrycki | |
| Clean | Lachlan McLeod, David Elliot-Jones, Charlotte Wheaton | |
| Everybody's Oma | Jason van Genderen, Roslyn Walker, Olivia Olley | |
| Franklin | Kasimir Burgess, Christopher Kamen | |
| Ithaka | Ben Lawrence, Gabriel Shipton, Adrian Devant | |
| 2023 (13th) | John Farnham: Finding the Voice | Poppy Stockell, Mikael Borglund, Paul Clarke, Martin Fabinyi, Olivia Hoopmann |
| The Dark Emu Story | Allan Clarke, Darren Dale, Belinda Mravicic, Jacob Hickey | |
| Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story | Paul Goldman, Bethany Jones, Paige McGinley | |
| The Giants | Laurence Billiet, Rachael Antony, Helen Panckhurst | |
| Harley & Katya | Selina Milea, Blayke Hoffman, Jo-anne McGowan, Aaliyah-Jade Bradbury | |
| The Last Daughter | Brenda Matthews, Nathaniel Schmidt, Simon Williams, Brendon Skinner | |
| This Is Going to Be Big | Thomas Charles Hyland, Jim Wright, Josie Mason-Campbell | |
| To Never Forget | Peter Hegedüs, Jaclyn McLendon, Bobbi-Lea Dionysius | |
| 2024 (14th) | Otto by Otto | Gracie Otto, Cody Greenwood, Nicole O'Donohue |
| A Horse Named Winx | Janine Hosking | |
| Every Little Thing | Sally Aitken, Bettina Dalton | |
| Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line | Paul Clarke, Carolina Sorensen, Mikael Borglund, Martin Fabinyi | |
| The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process | Scott Hicks, Kerry Heysen, Jett Heysen-Hicks, David Chiem | |
| Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Camilla Mazzaferro, Aniela Sidorska, Paula Du Pré Pesmen, Olivia Ahnemann |