Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries has been awarded since 1991.

1990s

1991: Barbara Kopple – American Dream

Alan Raymond – Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House

Albert Maysles – Soldiers of Music: Rostorpovitch Returns to Russia

Eleanor Coppola – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1992: Joseph A. Berlinger and Bruce J. Sinofsky – Brother's Keeper

Mark Stouffer – Braving Alaska

Ric Burns – The Donner Party

1993: Barbara Kopple – Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

Susan Steinberg – Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time

Susan Raymond – I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

Bruce Kuerten – From Fields of Promise

Shari Cookson – Skinheads Usa: Soldiers in the Race War

1994: Steve James – Hoop Dreams

Bethany Yarrow – Mama Awethu!

Susan Todd & Andrew Young – Lives in Hazard

Jyll Johnstone – Martha & Ethel

Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine – Frosh: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm

1995: Terry Zwigoff – Crumb

Deborah Hoffmann – Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Freida Mock – Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

Bill Van Daalen – Indianapolis: Ship of Doom

Helen Whitney – Richard Avedon: Darkness & Light

1996: Al Pacino – Looking for Richard

Leon Gast – When We Were Kings

Jeanne Jordan – Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

Isaac Mizrahi – Slaughter, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

Bruce Sinofsky And Joseph Berlinger – Paradise Lost

1997: Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell – Riding the Rails

Ellen Hovde – Liberty! The American Revolution: "Blows Must Decide"

John O'Hagan – Wonderland

Michele Ohayon – Colors Straight Up

Peter Rosen – First Person Singular: I.M. Pei

1998: Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert and Gordon Quinn – Vietnam, Long Time Coming

Matthew Diamond – Dancemaker

Susan Lacy – Leonard Bernstein, Reaching for the Note

Nigel Noble – Porgy and Bess: An American Voice

Kyra Thompson – Dying to Tell the Story

1999: Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen – On the Ropes

Barry Blaustein – Beyond the Mat

Marc Levin – Thug Life In DC

Errol Morris – Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Gary Weimberg – The Double Life Of Ernesto Gomez

2000s

2000: Chuck Braverman – High School Boot Camp

Laurie Collyer – Nuyorican Dream

David DeVries – The True Story Of The Bridge On The River Kwai

Mark Lewis – The Natural History Of The Chicken

Michael Mierendorf – Broken Child

2001: Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim – Startup.com

Charles Braverman – Rocky and Rolanda

Stephen Ives – Amato: A Love Affair with Opera

Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid – Long Night's Journey Into Day

Martin J. Spinelli – Life on Jupiter

2002: Tasha Oldham – The Smith Family

Charles Braverman – Bottom of the Ninth

Rebecca Cammisa and Rob Fruchtman – Sister Helen

Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender – Prisoner of Paradise

Leah Mahan – Sweet Old Song, P.O.V

2003: Nathaniel Kahn – My Architect

Sam Green and Bill Siegel – The Weather Underground

Andrew Jarecki – Capturing the Friedmans

Errol Morris – The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

José Padilha – Ônibus 174

2004: Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni – Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The Story of the Weeping Camel)

Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman – Born into Brothels

Ross McElwee – Bright Leaves

Michael Moore – Fahrenheit 9/11

Jehane Noujaim – Control Room

2005: Werner Herzog – Grizzly Man

Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani – The Devil's Miner

Sean McAllister – The Liberace of Baghdad

Rupert Murray – Unknown White Male

Brent and Craig Renaud – Off to War

2006: Arūnas Matelis – Before Flying Back to the Earth

Amy Berg – Deliver Us From Evil

Michael Glawogger – Workingman's Death

James Longley – Iraq In Fragments

Jean-Henri Meunier – Ici Najac, A Vous La Terre

2007: Asger Leth – Ghosts of Cité Soleil

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick – The War

Alex Gibney – Taxi to the Dark Side

Richard Robbins – Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Barbet Schroeder – Terror's Advocate (L'avocat de la terreur)

2008: Ari Folman – Vals Im Bashir

Peter Gilbert, Steve James – At the Death House Door

Elizabeth Farnsworth, Patricio Lanfranco Leverton – The Judge and the General

James Marsh – Man on Wire

Gonzalo Arijón – Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains

2009: Louie Psihoyos – The Cove

Sacha Gervasi – Anvil! The True Story of Anvil

Mai Iskander – Garbage Dreams

Robert Kenner – Food, Inc.

Geoffrey Smith – The English Surgeon

Agnes Varda – The Beaches of Agnès

2010s

2010: Charles Ferguson – Inside Job

Lixin Fan – Last Train Home

Alex Gibney – Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Davis Guggenheim – Waiting for "Superman"

Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington – Restrepo

2011: James Marsh – Project Nim

Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Steve James – The Interrupters

Richard Press – Bill Cunningham New York

Martin Scorsese – George Harrison: Living in the Material World

2012: Malik Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man

Kirby Dick – The Invisible War

David France – How to Survive a Plague

Lauren Greenfield – The Queen of Versailles

Alison Klayman – Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

2013: Jehane Noujaim – The Square

Zachary Heinzerling – Cutie and the Boxer

Joshua Oppenheimer – The Act of Killing

Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

Lucy Walker – The Crash Reel

2014: Laura Poitras – Citizenfour

Dan Krauss – The Kill Team

John Maloof and Charlie Siskel – Finding Vivian Maier

Jesse Moss – The Overnighters

Orlando von Einsiedel – Virunga

2015: Matthew Heineman – Cartel Land

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Meru

Liz Garbus – What Happened, Miss Simone?

Alex Gibney – Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Asif Kapadia – Amy

2016: Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America

Otto Bell – The Eagle Huntress

Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg – Weiner

Raoul Peck – I Am Not Your Negro

Roger Ross Williams – Life, Animated

References

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