Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film

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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

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History

This award had been given since 1988. The award is also known as Best Documentary/Non-Fiction film.[ citation needed ]

Winners

1980s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
1988 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Marcel Ophuls
1989 Roger & Me Michael Moore

1990s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
1990 Paris Is Burning Jennie Livingston
1991 American Dream Barbara Kopple
1992 Black Harvest Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly
1993 It's All True Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel and Orson Welles
1994 Hoop Dreams Steve James
1995 Crumb Terry Zwigoff
1996 When We Were Kings Leon Gast
1997 Riding the Rails Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys
1998 The Farm: Angola, USA Liz Garbus and Wilbert Rideau
1999 Buena Vista Social Club Wim Wenders

2000s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
2000 Dark Days Marc Singer
2001 The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) Agnès Varda
2002 The Cockettes Bill Weber and David Weissman
2003 The Fog of War Errol Morris
2004 Born into Brothels Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
2005 Grizzly Man Werner Herzog
2006 An Inconvenient Truth Davis Guggenheim
2007 No End in Sight Charles Ferguson
2008 Man on Wire James Marsh
2009 The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda
The Cove Louie Psihoyos

2010s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
2010 Last Train Home Lixin Fan
2011 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog
2012 The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh
2013 Stories We Tell Sarah Polley
2014 Citizenfour Laura Poitras
2015 Amy Asif Kapadia
2016 I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck
2017 Faces Places (Visages Villages) Agnès Varda and JR
2018 Shirkers Sandi Tan [1]
2019 American Factory Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert [2]

2020s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
2020 Time Garrett Bradley [3]
2021 Summer of Soul Questlove [4]
2022 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras [5]
2023Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troigros Frederick Wiseman [6]

Multiple wins

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