| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|
| 2010 |   Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross | Last Train Home | |
 Zeina Daccache | 12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary | |
   Ronit Avni, Julia Bacha, Rula Salameh | Budrus | |
  Robert Lemkin, Thet Sambath | Enemies of the People | |
| Zhu Rikun | Karamay | |
| 2011 |   Maryam Ebrahimi | I Was Worth 50 Sheep | Jag var värd 50 lamm |
   Shahin Parhami | Amin | |
 Amber Latiff, Girjashanker Vohra | Pink Saris | |
| Gemma Atwal, Matt Norman | Marathon Boy | |
  Anna Dziapshipa | Bakhmaro | |
| 2012 |   Isabelle Stead, Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji, Atia Jabarah Al-Daradji | In My Mother's Arms | |
 Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Five Broken Cameras | Hams Caeraten Maksura /Hamesh Matzlemot Shvurot |
 Shalahuddin Siregar | The Land Beneath the Fog | Neger di Bawah Kabut |
| Liran Atzmor | The Law in These Parts | Shiton hachok |
 Kim Min-chul, Gary Kam | Planet of Snail - High Commendation | |
| 2013 |   Joshua Oppenheimer , Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Michael Uwemedimo | The Act of Killing | |
 Dror Moreh, Estelle Fialon, Phillipa Kowarsky | The Gatekeepers | |
 Amit Virmani, Seah Kui Luan | Menstrual Man | |
| Maryam Ebrahimi | No Burqas Behind Bars | |
 Patrick Campbell, Mahdi Fleifel | A World Not Ours | |
| 2014 | Tara Karimi | 1001 Apples | Hezar-O Yek Siv |
| Surabhi Sharma | Bidesia In Bambai | |
| Kim Mi-re | Sanda: Surviving | Sanda |
 Serge Lalou, Camille Laumié, Orwa Nyrabia, Diana El Jeiroudi | Slivered Water, Syria Self-Portrait | Eau Agentée, Syrie Autoportrait |
| James Leong, Lynn Lee | Wukan: The Flame of Democracy | Wukan: Minzu Zhi Guang |
| 2015 | Zhao Qi, Zhou Hao | The Chinese Mayor | Datong |
 Jonathan Goodman Levitt, Hemal Trivedi | Among The Believers | |
 Molly Reynolds, Peter Djigirr, Rolf de Heer | Another Country | |
| Bahman Ghobadi | A Flag Without A Country | |
| Signe Byrge Sørensen | The Look of Silence | Senyap |
| 2016 | Mehrdad Oskouei | Starless Dreams | Royahaye Dame Sobh |
  Wang Shin-hong, Midi Z, Isabella Ho, Lin Sheng-wen | City of Jade | Fei Cui Zhi Cheng |
| Catherine Dussart | Exile | Exil |
| Lizzette Atkins, George Gittoes | Snow Monkey | |
    Natalya Manskaya | Under The Sun | V Luchakh Solnca |
| 2017 | Søren Steen Jespersen, Kareem Abeed, Stefan Kloos | Last Men in Aleppo | |
 Alexander Behse; Co-Produced by Annie Goldson | Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web | |
 Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton, Hollie Fifer | The Opposition | |
 Ansgar Prerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert | Taste of Cement | |
| Xu Feixue, Lu Zhixin, Zhang Jun | A Yangtze Landscape | Changjiang |
| 2018 | Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan | Gurrumul | |
 Mohamed Siam, Myriam Sassine | Amal | |
| Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert, Hans Robert Eisenhauer | Of Fathers and Sons | |
| Hikaru Toda, Elhum Shakerifar | Of Love & Law | |
| Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar, Manas Malhotra | Up Down & Sideways | kho ki pa lü |
| 2019 |  Philppe Bellaïche, Rachel Leah Jones, Paul Cadieux, Joëlle Bertossa | Advocate | |
| Viktor Kossakovsky, Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert, Sigrid Dyekjær | Aquarela | |
| Daniel Gordon, Sarah Thomson, Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell, John Battsek | The Australian Dream | |
| Negar Eskandarfar, Farzad Khoshdast | Narrow Red Line | |
| Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christoph Jörg, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn | One Child Nation | |
