Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director

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The Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director is one of the awards presented annually by Critics Choice Association since the awards debuted in 2016.

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Winners and nominees

Table key
  indicates the winner
‡ Indicates the winner of Best Documentary Feature

2010s

Ezra Edelman won the award at the inaugural ceremony for the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman, May 2011 (cropped).jpg
Ezra Edelman won the award at the inaugural ceremony for the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary O.J.: Made in America
Morgan Neville won for directing Won't You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville Deauville 2013.jpg
Morgan Neville won for directing Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Peter Jackson won for They Shall Not Grow Old in 2019 Peter Jackson SDCC 2014.jpg
Peter Jackson won for They Shall Not Grow Old in 2019
YearDirector(s)FilmRef.
2016
(1st) 		Ezra Edelman O.J.: Made in America ‡ [1] [2]
Ron Howard The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
Kirsten Johnson Cameraperson
Keith Maitland Tower
Clay Tweel Gleason
Roger Ross Williams Life, Animated
2017
(2nd) 		Evgeny Afineevsky Cries from Syria [3]
Frederick Wiseman Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Amir Bar-Lev Long Strange Trip
Matthew Heineman City of Ghosts
Bill Morrison Dawson City: Frozen Time
Doug Nichol California Typewriter
Jeff Orlowski Chasing Coral
Irene Taylor Brodsky Beware the Slenderman
Ceyda Torun Kedi
Agnès Varda and JR Faces Places
2018
(3rd) 		Morgan Neville Won't You Be My Neighbor? ‡ [4] [5]
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Free Solo
Bing Liu Minding the Gap
Kimberly Reed Dark Money
Rudiger SuchslandHitler's Hollywood
Tim Wardle Three Identical Strangers
2019
(4th) 		Peter Jackson They Shall Not Grow Old [6] [7]
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert American Factory
Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts For Sama
John Chester The Biggest Little Farm
Feras Fayyad The Cave
Todd Douglas Miller Apollo 11 ‡
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang One Child Nation

2020s

Kirsten Johnson won once from two nominations for Dick Johnson Is Dead in 2020 Kirsten Johnson at MIFF.jpg
Kirsten Johnson won once from two nominations for Dick Johnson Is Dead in 2020
Questlove won in 2021 for the Harlem Cultural Festival documentary Summer of Soul Questlove in Sau Paolo.jpg
Questlove won in 2021 for the Harlem Cultural Festival documentary Summer of Soul
YearDirector(s)FilmRef.
2020
(5th) 		Kirsten Johnson Dick Johnson Is Dead ‡ [8] [9]
Garrett Bradley Time
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk Athlete A
Victor Kossakovsky Gunda
James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Dawn Porter John Lewis: Good Trouble
Benjamin Ree The Painter and the Thief
2021
(6th) 		Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin The Rescue [10]
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) ‡
Liz Garbus Becoming Cousteau
Jessica Kingdon Ascension
Stanley Nelson Jr. and Traci A. Curry Attica
Jonas Poher Rasmussen Flee
Edgar Wright The Sparks Brothers
2022
(7th) 		Ryan White Good Night Oppy ‡ [11]
Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio George Carlin's American Dream
Margaret Brown Descendant
Sara Dosa Fire of Love
Reginald Hudlin Sidney
Brett Morgen Moonage Daydream
Laura Poitras All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Daniel Roher Navalny

2023

Multiple nominations

NominationsDirector
2 Jimmy Chin
Kirsten Johnson
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

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  1. ↑ Hammond, Pete (October 10, 2016). "'13th,' 'O.J.: Made In America' & 'Gleason' Lead Nominations For First Critics' Choice Documentary Awards". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  2. ↑ Tapley, Kristopher (November 3, 2016). "'O.J.: Made in America,' '13th' Top First Annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards". Variety . Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  3. ↑ Chuba, Kirsten (October 11, 2017). "Critics' Choice Documentary Awards: 'Kedi' Leads Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  4. ↑ Erbland, Kate (October 15, 2018). "Critics' Choice Documentary Awards Nominees Announced: 'Free Solo,' 'Minding the Gap,' and 'Wild Wild Country' Lead Nods". IndieWire . Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  5. ↑ Lewis, Hilary (November 10, 2018). "Mr. Rogers Film 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' Tops Critics' Choice Documentary Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  6. ↑ Gray, Tim (October 14, 2019). "'Biggest Little Farm' Nabs Seven Critics' Choice Documentary Awards Nominations". Variety. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  7. ↑ Nordyke, Kimberly; Howard, Annie (November 10, 2019). "Critics' Choice Documentary Awards: 'Apollo 11' Tops Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  8. ↑ Hammond, Pete (October 26, 2020). "Critics' Choice Documentary Awards Nominations: 'Mr. Soul', 'Gunda', 'Crip Camp' And 'Totally Under Control' Top List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  9. ↑ Moreau, Jordan (November 16, 2020). "'Dick Johnson Is Dead' Wins Best Feature at Critics Choice Documentary Awards". Variety. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  10. ↑ Feinberg, Scott (October 18, 2021). "Critics Choice Documentary Awards: 'Summer of Soul' and 'Ascension' Lead With 6 Nominations Each". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  11. ↑ Nordyke, Kimberly (November 13, 2022). "'Good Night Oppy' Wins Top Prize at Critics Choice Documentary Awards". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 13, 2022.
  12. ↑ Zilko, Christian (November 12, 2023). "'Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie' Sweeps the Critics Choice Documentary Awards (Complete Winners List)". IndieWire . Retrieved November 13, 2023.
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