St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film

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The St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film is an award given by the St. Louis Gateway 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 no award given
    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 TBA TBA Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
  • The Eagle Huntress
  • Otto Bell
  • Gleason
  • Clay Tweel
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Raoul Peck
  • Weiner
  • Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg

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