Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking

Nominees and Winners 2010-2020

*denotes winner

2020

• Moonlight Sonata: Deafness In Three Movements
• Chasing The Moon
• One Child Nation
• The Cave*

2019

• Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• RBG*
• The Sentence*
• Three Identical Strangers

2018

• City Of Ghosts
• Jane
• Strong Island*
• What Haunts Us

2017

• Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher And Debbie Reynolds
• LA 92*
• O.J.: Made In America
• Oklahoma City
• The White Helmets

2016

• Cartel Land*
• Jim: The James Foley Story*
• Racing Extinction
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• The Hunting Ground
• Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom

2015

• Citizenfour*
• Hot Girls Wanted
• The Great Invisible

2014

• Brave Miss World
• Hillsborough Life
• According To Sam*
• The Amish: Shunned

2013

• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God*

2012

• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
• The Amish
• Have You Heard From Johannesburg (Independent Lens)*

2011

• Gasland
• The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers
• Freedom Riders*

2010

• Brick City
• Sergio
• Pressure Cooker
• My Lai
• The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)*
• Patti Smith: Dream Of Life