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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

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Matthew HeinemanCartel Land, Matthew Heineman, Winner, Ezra EdelmanOJ: Made in America, Ezra Edelman, Winner, Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiMeru, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Nominee, Alex GibneyGoing Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Alex Gibney, Nominee, Roger Ross WilliamsLife - Animated, Roger Ross Williams, Nominee, Jimmy ChinMeru, Jimmy Chin, Nominee, Elyse SteinbergWeiner, Elyse Steinberg, Nominee, Raoul PeckI Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, Nominee, Otto BellThe Eagle Huntress, Otto Bell, Nominee, Josh KriegmanWeiner, Josh Kriegman, Nominee, Laura PoitrasCitizenfour, Laura Poitras, Winner, John MaloofFinding Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Nominee, Dan KraussThe Kill Team, Dan Krauss, Nominee, Jesse MossThe Overnighters, Jesse Moss, Nominee, Orlando von EinsiedelVirunga, Orlando von Einsiedel, Nominee, Charlie SiskelFinding Vivian Maier, Charlie Siskel, Nominee, Jehane NoujaimThe Square, Jehane Noujaim, Winner, Zachary HeinzerlingPOV: Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling, Nominee, Sarah PolleyStories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Nominee, Joshua OppenheimerThe Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Nominee, Lucy WalkerThe Crash Reel, Lucy Walker, Nominee, Malik BendjelloulSearching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, Winner, Alison KlaymanAi Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, Nominee, Lauren GreenfieldThe Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, Nominee, David FranceHow to Survive a Plague, David France, Nominee, Kirby DickThe Invisible War, Kirby Dick, Nominee, James MarshProject Nim, James Marsh, Winner, Richard PressBill Cunningham New York, Richard Press, Nominee, Martin ScorseseGeorge Harrison: Living in the Material World, Martin Scorsese, Nominee, Joe BerlingerParadise Lost 3: Purgatory, Joe Berlinger, Nominee, Steve JamesThe Interrupters, Steve James, Nominee, Bruce SinofskyParadise Lost 3: Purgatory, Bruce Sinofsky, Nominee

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

Contents

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

    Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Wikipedia
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