Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film

The BMO Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual award given by the Toronto Film Critics Association to a film judged by the members of that body to be the year's best documentary film.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2002	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Moore	[1]
	Gambling, Gods and LSD	Peter Mettler
	Standing in the Shadows of Motown	Paul Justman
2003	Capturing the Friedmans	Andrew Jarecki	[2]
2004	The Fog of War	Errol Morris	[3]
2005	Grizzly Man	Werner Herzog	[4]
2006	Manufactured Landscapes	Jennifer Baichwal	[5]
	Deliver Us from Evil	Amy J. Berg
	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim
2007	No End in Sight	Charles Ferguson	[6]
	Iraq in Fragments	James Longley
	My Kid Could Paint That	Amir Bar-Lev
2008	Man on Wire	James Marsh	[7]
	Standard Operating Procedure	Errol Morris
	Up the Yangtze	Yung Chang
2009	The Cove	Louie Psihoyos	[8]
	Anvil! The Story of Anvil	Sacha Gervasi
	The Beaches of Agnès	Agnès Varda

2010s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2010	Exit Through the Gift Shop	Banksy	[9]
	Inside Job	Charles Ferguson
	Marwencol	Jeff Malmberg
2011	Nostalgia for the Light	Patricio Guzmán	[10]
	Into the Abyss	Werner Herzog
	Project Nim	James Marsh
2012	Stories We Tell	Sarah Polley	[11]
	The Queen of Versailles	Lauren Greenfield
	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul
2013	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer	[12]
	Leviathan	Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
	Tim's Vermeer	Teller
2014	The Overnighters	Jesse Moss	[13]
	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras
	Manakamana	Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez
2015	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer	[14]
	Amy	Asif Kapadia
	Listen to Me Marlon	Stevan Riley
2016	Cameraperson	Kirsten Johnson	[15]
	Fire at Sea	Gianfranco Rosi
	The Stairs	Hugh Gibson
2017	Faces Places	Agnès Varda, JR	[16]
	Jane	Brett Morgen
	Kedi	Ceyda Torun
2018	Won't You Be My Neighbor?	Morgan Neville	[17]
	Anthropocene: The Human Epoch	Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
	Free Solo	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
2019	American Factory	Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert	[18]
	Apollo 11	Todd Douglas Miller
	The Cave	Feras Fayyad

2020s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2020	Collective	Alexander Nanau	[19]
	American Utopia	Spike Lee
	Crip Camp	Nicole Newnham, James LeBrecht
	Time	Garrett Bradley
2021	Summer of Soul	Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson	[20]
	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
	The Velvet Underground	Todd Haynes
2022	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed	Laura Poitras	[21]
	Fire of Love	Sara Dosa
	Moonage Daydream	Brett Morgen
2023	20 Days in Mariupol	Mstyslav Chernov	[22]
	The Eternal Memory	Maite Alberdi
	Four Daughters	Kaouther Ben Hania
	Swan Song	Chelsea McMullan
2024	Dahomey	Mati Diop	[23]
	Occupied City	Steve McQueen
	Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat	Johan Grimonprez

References

1. Agnes Poirier, "Toronto critics hail Adaptation". Screen Daily , December 17, 2002.
2. "Toronto film critics find winner in Translation". The Globe and Mail , December 18, 2003.
3. "Toronto film critics side with Sideways". Toronto Star , December 16, 2004.
4. Chris Knight, "Toronto overcome with Violence". National Post , December 21, 2005.
5. Lee-Anne Goodman, "The Queen rules Toronto critics' awards". Hamilton Spectator , December 21, 2006.
6. Lee-Anne Goodman, "No Country, Away From Her Toronto critics' top '07 choices". Winnipeg Free Press , December 20, 2007.
7. Liam Lacey, "Toronto Film Critics choose indie over Hollywood". The Globe and Mail , December 17, 2008.
8. Chandra Menard, "Toronto Film Critics Announce 2009 Award Winners". BlogTO, December 16, 2009.
9. Peter Knegt, "“Social Network” Tops San Francisco and Toronto Film Critics’ Awards". IndieWire , December 14, 2010.
10. Brian D. Johnson, "Toronto critics name 'Tree of Life' Best Picture". Maclean's , December 14, 2011.
11. Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
12. "Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star , December 17, 2013.
13. Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now , December 16, 2014.
14. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily , December 14, 2015.
15. Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now , December 12, 2016.
16. Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
17. Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada , December 10, 2018.
18. Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now , December 9, 2019.
19. Pat Mullen, "Nomadland Leads Toronto Film Critics Association Award Winners". That Shelf, February 8, 2021.
20. Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada , January 16, 2022.
21. Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View , January 8, 2023.
22. Erik Anderson, "Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Awards: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture, Director". AwardsWatch, December 17, 2023.
23. Neglia, Matt (December 16, 2024). "The 2024 Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 16, 2024.

External links

• Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners