Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Directors Guild of America |
First awarded | 1991 |
Currently held by | Sara Dosa for Fire of Love (2022) |
Website | https://www.dga.org |
The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by the Directors Guild of America. It was first awarded at the 44th Directors Guild of America Awards in 1992.
Year | Winners and nominees | Film | Ref. |
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2020 (73rd) | Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw | The Truffle Hunters | [36] [37] |
Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed | My Octopus Teacher | ||
David France | Welcome to Chechnya | ||
Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss | Boys State | ||
Benjamin Ree | The Painter and the Thief | ||
2021 (74th) | Stanley Nelson Jr. | Attica | [38] [39] |
Jessica Kingdon | Ascension | ||
Raoul Peck | Exterminate All the Brutes | ||
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | ||
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin | The Rescue | ||
2022 (75th) | Sara Dosa | Fire of Love | [40] [41] |
Matthew Heineman | Retrograde | ||
Laura Poitras | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | ||
Daniel Roher | Navalny | ||
Shaunak Sen | All That Breathes | ||
2023 (76th) | Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp | Bobi Wine: The People's President | [42] |
Mstyslav Chernov | 20 Days in Mariupol | ||
Madeleine Gavin | Beyond Utopia | ||
Davis Guggenheim | Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | ||
D. Smith | Kokomo City |
Wins | Nominations | Name (Year) |
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2 | 3 | Matthew Heineman (2015, 2017, 2022) |
3 | Jehane Noujaim (2001, 2004, 2013) | |
2 | Barbara Kopple (1991, 1993) | |
1 | 4 | Steve James (1994, 2008, 2011, 2017) |
3 | Joe Berlinger (1992, 2006, 2011) | |
3 | Bruce Sinofsky (1992, 2006, 2011) | |
3 | Charles Braverman (2000, 2001, 2002) | |
2 | Peter Gilbert (1998, 2008) | |
2 | James Marsh (2008, 2011) | |
2 | Laura Poitras (2014, 2022) | |
0 | 3 | Errol Morris (1999, 2003, 2017) |
3 | Alex Gibney (2007, 2010, 2015) | |
3 | Jimmy Chin (2015, 2018, 2021) | |
3 | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (2015, 2018, 2021) | |
2 | Deborah Hoffmann (1995, 2001) | |
2 | Ken Burns (2007, 2017) | |
2 | Lynn Novick (2007, 2017) | |
2 | Davis Guggenheim (2010, 2023) | |
2 | David France (2012, 2020) | |
2 | Jesse Moss (2014, 2020) | |
2 | Raoul Peck (2016, 2021) |
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