Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film

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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.

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Winners

2000s

YearWinnerDirector(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

YearWinnerDirector(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

YearWinnerDirector(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

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