Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary

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The Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Best Documentary is an annual award given by the Chicago Film Critics Association since 2000.

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Winners and Nominees

YearWinnerNominees
2000 The Filth and the Fury
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
2001 The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
2002 Bowling for Columbine
2003 The Fog of War
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11
2005 Grizzly Man
2006 An Inconvenient Truth
2007 Sicko Darfur Now
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Lake of Fire
No End in Sight
2008 Man on Wire American Teen
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
I.O.U.S.A.
Standard Operating Procedure
2009 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Tyson
2010 Exit Through the Gift Shop Inside Job
Restrepo
The Tillman Story
Waiting for "Superman"
2011 The Interrupters Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Into the Abyss
Pina
Project Nim
Tabloid
2012 The Invisible War The Central Park Five
The Queen of Versailles
Searching for Sugar Man
West of Memphis
2013 The Act of Killing 20 Feet from Stardom
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
2014 Life Itself Citizenfour
Jodorowsky's Dune
Last Days in Vietnam
The Overnighters
2015 Amy Cartel Land
The Hunting Ground
The Look of Silence
Where to Invade Next
2016 O.J.: Made in America Cameraperson
Life, Animated
Tower
Weiner
2017 Jane Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Faces Places
Kedi
2018 Minding the Gap [1] Free Solo
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2019 Apollo 11 [2] American Factory
For Sama
Hail Satan?
Honeyland
2020 Dick Johnson Is Dead [3] Collective
David Byrne's American Utopia
The Social Dilemma
Time
2021 Summer of Soul [4] [5] Flee
Procession
The Sparks Brothers
The Velvet Underground
2022 Fire of Love [6] All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Descendant
Moonage Daydream

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