Academy Award for Documentary Feature
Films are listed by the year they received the
Academy Award for Documentary Feature; the year of production follows the title in parentheses. There is sometimes a gap of more than a year between a film's production and its award, which is often the result of the film's unavailability in translation.
- 1944 Desert Victory
- 1945 The Fighting Lady
- 1946 The True Glory
- 1947 none given
- 1948 Design for Death
- 1949 The Secret Land
- 1950 Daybreak in Udi
- 1951 The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
- 1952 Kon-Tiki
- 1953 The Sea Around Us
- 1954 The Living Desert
- 1955 The Vanishing Prairie
- 1956 Helen Keller in Her Story
- 1957 The Silent World
- 1958 Albert Schweitzer
- 1959 White Wilderness
- 1960 Serengeti Shall Not Die
- 1961 The Horse with the Flying Tail
- 1962 Sky Above and Mud Beneath
- 1963 Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
- 1964 Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World
- 1965 Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun
- 1966 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
- 1967 The War Game
- 1968 The nderson Platoon
- 1969 Journey Into Self
- 1970 Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life
- 1971 Woodstock
- 1972 The Hellstrom Chronicle
- 1973 Marjoe
- 1974 The Great American Cowboy
- 1975 Hearts and Minds
- 1976 The Man Who Skied Down Everest
- 1977 Harlan County, U.S.A
- 1978 Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids
- 1979 Scared Straight
- 1980 Best Boy
- 1981 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
- 1982 Genocide
- 1983 Just Another Missing Kid
- 1984 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
- 1985 The Times of Harvey Milk
- 1986 Broken Rainbow
- 1987 (tie):
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
- Down and Out in America
- 1988 The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
- 1989 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
- 1990 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- 1991 American Dream
- 1992 In the Shadow of the Stars
- 1993 The Panama Deception
- 1994 I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
- 1995 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
- 1996 Anne Frank Remembered
- 1997 When We Were Kings
- 1998 The Long Way Home
- 1999 The Last Days
- 2000 One Day in September
- 2001 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
- 2002 Bowling for Columbine - Alliance Atlantis Communications, Dog Eat Dog Films, Salter Street Films International, United Broadcasting Inc., VIF Babelsberger Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Zweite KG (VIF 2) - Michael Moore, Charles Bishop, Jim Czarnecki, Michael Donovan, Kathleen Glynn producers - Michael Moore director
- Daughter From Danang - Gail Dolgin producer - Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco directors
- Le Peuple migrateur - Bac Films, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Eyescreen S.r.l., Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, France 2 Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma, Galatée Films, Le Studio Canal+, Les Productions JMH, Les Productions de la Guéville, Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Wanda Visión S.A., Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) - Jacques Perrin, Christophe Barratier producers - Jacques Perrin director
- Prisoner of Paradise - Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender directors
- ''Spellbound - Blitz/Welch - Jeffrey Blitz, two persons named Sean Welch producers - Jeffrey Blitz director
See also : Academy Awards
