The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1980 | Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On? | Ross McElwee |
1981 | Diaries | |
1982 | The Atomic Cafe | Jayne Loader and Kevin Rafferty |
1983 | Say Amen, Somebody | George T. Nierenberg |
1984 | The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein |
1985 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann |
1986 | Mother Teresa | Ann Petrie and Jeanette Petrie |
1987 | Marlene | Maximilian Schell |
1988 | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris |
1989 | Let's Get Lost | Bruce Weber |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1990 | No information | |
1991 | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston |
1992 | No information | |
1993 | Visions of Light | Arnold Glassman and Todd McCarthy |
1994 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James |
1995 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff |
1996 | Anne Frank Remembered | Jon Blair |
1997 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris |
1998 | The Big One | Michael Moore |
1999 | Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary | S.R. Bindler |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2000 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato |
2001 | The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse) | Agnès Varda |
2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen |
2003 | Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki |
2004 | Control Room [2] | Jehane Noujaim |
2005 | Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro |
2006 | Deliver Us from Evil | Amy Berg |
Shut Up & Sing | Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck | |
2007 | Crazy Love | Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens |
2008 | Man on Wire | James Marsh |
2009 | The Cove | Louie Psihoyos |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
---|---|---|
2010 | Marwencol | Jeff Malmberg |
2011 | Project Nim [3] | James Marsh |
2012 | How to Survive a Plague | David France |
2013 | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
2014 | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
2015 | Amy [4] | Asif Kapadia |
2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman |
2017 | Dawson City: Frozen Time | Bill Morrison |
2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville |
2019 | Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2020 | Collective [5] | Alexander Nanau |
2021 | Summer of Soul [6] | Questlove |
2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras |
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