Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture

Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture
Awarded for	Outstanding Production of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
Country	United States
Presented by	Producers Guild of America
First award	2007
Currently held by	Lizzie Gillett, Robert Ford, and Ian Bonhôte for Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

The Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures is an award annually given by Producers Guild of America since 2007.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
2007 (19th)	Sicko	Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara	[1]
	Body of War	Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro
	Hear and Now	Irene Taylor Brodsky
	Pete Seeger: The Power of Song	Jim Brown, Michael Cohl, and William Eigen
	White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Steven Okazaki
2008 (20th)	Man on Wire	Simon Chinn	[2]
	Standard Operating Procedure	Julie Ahlberg and Errol Morris
	Trouble the Water	Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
2009 (21st)	The Cove	Fisher Stevens and Paula DuPré Pesmen	[3]
	Burma VJ	Lise Lense-Møller
	Sergio	John Battsek, Greg Barker, and Julie Goldman
	Soundtrack for a Revolution	Joslyn Barnes, Jim Czarnecki, Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman, and Dylan Nelson

2010s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
2010 (22nd)	Waiting for "Superman"	Lesley Chilcott	[4]
	Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer	Maiken Baird, Alex Gibney, Jedd Wider, and Todd Wider
	Earth Made of Glass	Reid Carolin and Deborah Scranton
	Inside Job	Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
	Smash His Camera	Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger
	The Tillman Story	John Battsek
2011 (23rd)	Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest	Michael Rapaport, Edward Parks, Frank Mele, and Debra Koffler	[5]
	Bill Cunningham New York	Philip Gefter
	Project Nim	Simon Chinn
	Senna	James Gay-Rees
	The Union	Cameron Crowe and Michelle Panek
2012 (24th)	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn	[6]
	A People Uncounted	Marc Swenker and Aaron Yegerr
	The Gatekeepers	Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky, and Dror Moreh
	The Island President	Richard Berge and Bonni Cohen
	The Other Dream Team	Marius Markevicius and Jon Weinbach
2013 (25th)	We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks	Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, and Marc Shmuger	[7]
	Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story	Brad Bernstein and Rick Cikowski
	Life According to Sam	Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine, and Miriam Weintraub
	A Place at the Table	Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, and Lori Silverbush
	Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington	James Brabazon and Nick Quested
2014 (26th)	Life Itself	Zak Piper, Steve James, and Garrett Basch	[8]
	The Green Prince	Nadav Schirman, John Battsek, and Simon Chinn
	Merchants of Doubt	Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo
	Particle Fever	David E. Kaplan, Mark Levinson, Andrea Miller, and Carla Solomon
	Virunga	Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
2015 (27th)	Amy	James Gay-Rees	[9]
	The Hunting Ground	Amy Ziering
	The Look of Silence	Signe Byrge Sørensen
	Meru	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
	Something Better to Come	Sigrid Dyekjær and Hanna Polak
2016 (28th)	O.J.: Made in America	Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow	[10]
	Dancer	Gabrielle Tana
	The Eagle Huntress	Stacey Reiss and Otto Bell
	Life, Animated	Julie Goldman and Roger Ross Williams
	Tower	Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, and Megan Gilbride
2017 (29th)	Jane	Brett Morgen, Bryan Burk, Tony Gerber, and James Smith	[11]
	Chasing Coral	Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes
	City of Ghosts	Matthew Heineman
	Cries from Syria	Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor, and Aaron I. Butler
	Earth: One Amazing Day	Stephen McDonogh
	Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower	Matthew Torne, Mark Rinehart, and Joe Piscatella
	The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee	Teddy Kunhardt and George Kunhardt
2018 (30th)	Won't You Be My Neighbor?	Morgan Neville, Nicholas Ma, and Caryn Capotosto	[12] [13]
	The Dawn Wall	Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer, and Philipp Manderla
	Free Solo	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, and Shannon Dill
	Hal	Christine Beebe, Jonathan Lynch, and Brian Morrow
	Into the Okavango	Neil Gelinas
	RBG	Betsy West and Julie Cohen
	Three Identical Strangers	Becky Read and Grace Hughes-Hallett
2019 (31st)	Apollo 11	Todd Douglas Miller and Thomas Petersen	[14] [15]
	Advocate	Philippe Bellaïche and Rachel Leah Jones
	American Factory	Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, and Jeff Reichert
	The Cave	Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjaer
	For Sama	Waad Al-Kateab
	Honeyland	Atanas Georgiev and Ljubomir Stefanov
	One Child Nation	Christoph Jörg, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, Nanfu Wang, and Jialing Zhan

2020s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
2020 (32nd)	My Octopus Teacher	Craig Foster	[16]
	David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet	Jonnie Hughes
	Dick Johnson Is Dead	Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny, and Marilyn Ness
	Softie	Toni Kamau and Sam Soko
	A Thousand Cuts	Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn
	Time	Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, and Garrett Bradley
	The Truffle Hunters	Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
2021 (33rd)	Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)	Joseph Patel, David Dinerstein, and Robert Fyvolent	[17] [18] [19]
	Ascension	Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, and Nathan Truesdell
	The First Wave	Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman, and Leslie Norville [a] [20] [21]
	Flee	Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, and Charlotte de la Gournerie [a] [22] [23]
	In the Same Breath	Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn
	The Rescue	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, John Battsek, P. J. van Sandwijk, and Bob Eisenhardt [a] [24] [25]
	Simple as Water	Robin Hessman and Megan Mylan
	Writing with Fire	Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
2022 (34th)	Navalny	Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris	[26] [27] [28]
	All That Breathes	Aman Mann, Shaunak Sen, and Teddy Leifer
	Descendant	Margaret Brown, Kyle Martin, and Essie Chambers
	Fire of Love	Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, and Ina Fichman
	Nothing Compares	Eleanor Emptage and Michael Mallie
	Retrograde	Matthew Heineman and Caitlin McNally
	The Territory	Sigrid Dyekjaer, Will Miller, Lizzie Gillett, Darren Aronofsky, Gabriel Uchida, and Alex Pritz
2023 (35th)	American Symphony	Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman, and Joedan Okun	[29] [30]
	20 Days in Mariupol	Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Derl McCrudden, and Michelle Mizner [a] [31] [32]
	Beyond Utopia	Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, and Sue Mi Terry [a] [33] [34]
	The Disappearance of Shere Hite	Nicole Newnham, Molly O'Brien, R. J. Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, Kimberley Ferdinando, and Trevor Smith [a] [35] [36]
	The Mother of All Lies	Asmae El Moudir [a] [37] [38]
	Smoke Sauna Sisterhood	Marianne Ostrat [a] [39] [40]
	Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)	Trish D. Chetty, Ged Doherty, and Colin Firth [a] [41] [42]
2024 (36th)	Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story	Lizzie Gillett, Robert Ford, and Ian Bonhôte	[43] [44] [45]
	Gaucho Gaucho	Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
	Mediha	Hasan Oswald, Annelise Mecca, and Fahrinisa Campana
	Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa	Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, and Christopher Newman
	Porcelain War	Aniela Sidorska and Paula DuPré Pesmen
	We Will Dance Again	Michal Weits [a] [46] [47]
2025 (37th)	The Alabama Solution	Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, Alelur "Alex" Duran and Beth Shelburne	[48]
	Cover-Up	Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Yoni Golijov and Olivia Streisand
	Mr. Nobody Against Putin	Helle Faber, Alžběta Karásková and Radovan Síbrt
	My Mom Jayne	Mariska Hargitay and Trish Adlesic
	Ocean with David Attenborough	Toby Nowlan and Keith Scholey
	The Perfect Neighbor	Alisa Payne, Geeta Gandbhir, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee
	The Tale of Silyan	Jean Dakar, Anna Hashmi, Tamara Kotevska and Jordanco Petkovski

Multiple nominations and wins

Wins	Nominations	Name (Year)
2	5	Simon Chinn (2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018)
1	4	Matthew Heineman (2017, 2021, 2022, 2023)
	2	Paula DuPré Pesmen (2009, 2024)
		Alex Gibney (2010, 2013)
		James Gay-Rees (2011, 2015)
		Lauren Domino (2020, 2023)
		Shane Boris (2022)
		Lizzie Gillett (2022, 2024)
0	5	Julie Goldman (2009, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020)
	4	John Battsek (2009, 2010, 2014, 2021)
	3	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (2015, 2018, 2021)
		Jimmy Chin (2015, 2018, 2021)
		Sigrid Dyekjær (2015, 2019, 2022)
	2	Signe Byrge Sørensen (2015, 2021)
		Christopher Clements (2019, 2020)
		Carolyn Hepburn (2019, 2020)
		Michael Dweck (2020, 2024)
		Gregory Kershaw (2020, 2024)

See also

• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

Notes

1. The individual producer(s) nominated for this film were not announced by the Producers Guild of America (neither in the initial nominations announcement nor in any other press release related to the ceremony), for example, because the eligible producers had not been determined at the time of the nominations announcement or because the producers were only announced for the winning film. In lieu of the official nominee(s), every individual credited as a producer is listed here.

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