St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Feature

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The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Feature is an award given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association, honoring the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking.

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Winners

2000s

YearFilmDirector(s)Nominees
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore
2005 March of the Penguins Luc Jacquet Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza
  • Born into Brothels
  • Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • Alex Gibney
  • Grizzly Man
  • Werner Herzog
  • Mad Hot Ballroom
  • Marilyn Agrelo
  • Murderball
  • Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
  • The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
  • Judy Irvin
    2006 An Inconvenient Truth Davis Guggenheim Amy J. Berg
  • The Heart of the Game
  • Ward Serrill
  • Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
  • Robert Greenwald
  • Why We Fight
  • Eugene Jarecki
    2007 Sicko Michael Moore David Sington and Christopher Riley
  • The King of Kong
  • Seth Gordon
  • Manufactured Landscapes
  • Jennifer Baichwal
  • No End in Sight
  • Charles H. Ferguson
    2008 Man on Wire James Marsh Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue
  • Pray the Devil Back to Hell
  • Gini Reticker
  • Shine a Light
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Standard Operating Procedure
  • Errol Morris
    2009 Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore Sacha Gervasi
  • Food, Inc.
  • Robert Kenner
  • Good Hair
  • Jeff Stilson
  • Tyson
  • James Toback

    2010s

    YearFilmDirector(s)Nominees
    2010 The Tillman Story Amir Bar-Lev Yael Hersonski
  • Restrepo
  • Tim Hetherington
  • Waiting for "Superman"
  • Davis Guggenheim
  • Waking Sleeping Beauty
  • Don Hahn
    2011 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey Constance Marks Errol Morris (Runner-up)
  • Buck
  • Cindy Meehl
  • Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
  • Rodman Flender
  • The Interrupters
  • Steve James
    2012 Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul Alison Klayman (Runner-up)
  • Bully
  • Lee Hirsch (Runner-up)
  • How to Survive a Plague
  • David France (Runner-up)
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi
  • David Gelb
    2013 Blackfish Gabriela Cowperthwaite Joshua Oppenheimer (Runner-up)
  • Stories We Tell
  • Sarah Polley (Runner-up)
  • 20 Feet from Stardom
  • Morgan Neville
  • Muscle Shoals
  • Greg 'Freddy' Camalier
    2014 Citizenfour Laura Poitras John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
  • Jodorowsky's Dune
  • Frank Pavich
  • Life Itself
  • Steve James
  • Red Army
  • Gabe Polsky
  • Rich Hill
  • Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo
    2015 Amy Asif Kapadia Joshua Oppenheimer (Runner-up)
  • Best of Enemies
  • Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville
  • Cartel Land
  • Matthew Heineman
  • The Hunting Ground
  • Kirby Dick
    2016 I Am Not Your Negro [1] [2] Raoul Peck Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg (Runner-up)
  • De Palma
  • Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
  • The Eagle Huntress
  • Otto Bell
  • Gleason
  • Clay Tweel

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