| Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | The Gotham Film & Media Institute |
| First awarded | 2004 |
| Currently held by | Four Daughters (2023) |
| Website | awards |
The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. It was first presented in 2004 with Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist being the first recipient of the award. [1]
| Year | Film | Director(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | A Thousand Cuts | Ramona Diaz | [19] [20] |
| Time | Garrett Bradley | ||
| 76 Days | Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous | ||
| City Hall | Frederick Wiseman | ||
| Our Time Machine | Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang | ||
| 2021 | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | [21] [22] |
| Ascension | Jessica Kingdon | ||
| Faya Dayi | Jessica Beshir | ||
| President | Camilla Nielsson | ||
| Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson | ||
| 2022 | All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen | [23] |
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | ||
| I Didn't See You There | Reid Davenport | ||
| The Territory | Alex Pritz | ||
| What We Leave Behind | Iliana Sosa | ||
| 2023 | Four Daughters | Kaouther Ben Hania | [24] |
| 20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov | ||
| Against the Tide | Sarvnik Kaur | ||
| Apolonia, Apolonia | Lea Glob | ||
| Our Body | Claire Simon |
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