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Oscars: Documentary (Feature)

Winners and nominees by ceremony year, newest first.

Reported results from TVDB and Wikidata. Coverage is incomplete.

2026
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
GoodWatch score 80
WonMr. Nobody Against Putin2025
Nominated: The Alabama Solution, Cutting Through Rocks, Come See Me in the Good Light, The Perfect Neighbor
2025
No Other Land (2024)
GoodWatch score 90
WonNo Other Land2024
Nominated: Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Sugarcane, Black Box Diaries
2024
20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
GoodWatch score 84
Won20 Days in Mariupol2023
Nominated: The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, To Kill a Tiger, Bobi Wine: The People's President
2023
Navalny (2022)
GoodWatch score 83
WonNavalny2022
Nominated: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, All That Breathes, A House Made of Splinters, Fire of Love
2021
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
GoodWatch score 80
WonMy Octopus Teacher2020
Nominated: Time, The Mole Agent, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, Collective
2020
American Factory (2019)
GoodWatch score 83
WonAmerican Factory2019
Nominated: The Edge of Democracy, Honeyland, The Cave, For Sama
2019
Free Solo (2018)
GoodWatch score 81
WonFree Solo2018
Nominated: Minding the Gap, Of Fathers and Sons, Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018
Icarus (2017)
GoodWatch score 80
WonIcarus2017
Nominated: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Strong Island, Faces Places
2017
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
GoodWatch score 94
WonO.J.: Made in America2016
Nominated: Life, Animated, I Am Not Your Negro, Fire at Sea, 13th
2016
Amy (2015)
GoodWatch score 81
WonAmy2015
Nominated: The Look of Silence, Cartel Land, What Happened, Miss Simone?, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
2015
Citizenfour (2014)
GoodWatch score 86
WonCitizenfour2014
Nominated: Finding Vivian Maier, Virunga, The Salt of the Earth, Last Days in Vietnam
2014
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
GoodWatch score 83
Won20 Feet from Stardom2013
Nominated: Cutie and the Boxer, The Square, The Act of Killing, Dirty Wars
2013
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
GoodWatch score 80
WonSearching for Sugar Man2012
Nominated: How to Survive a Plague, Five Broken Cameras, The Invisible War, The Gatekeepers
2012
Undefeated (2011)
GoodWatch score 81
WonUndefeated2011
Nominated: Pina, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Hell and Back Again
2011
Inside Job (2010)
GoodWatch score 87
WonInside Job2010
Nominated: Restrepo, Gasland, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Waste Land
2010
The Cove (2009)
GoodWatch score 82
WonThe Cove2009
Nominated: The Most Dangerous Man in America, Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, Which Way Home, Food, Inc.
2009
Man on Wire (2008)
GoodWatch score 86
WonMan on Wire2008
Nominated: Trouble the Water, The Garden, The Betrayal – Nerakhoon, Encounters at the End of the World
2008
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
GoodWatch score 83
WonTaxi to the Dark Side2008
Nominated: No End in Sight, War Dance, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Sicko
2007
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
GoodWatch score 72
WonAn Inconvenient Truth2006
Nominated: Deliver Us from Evil, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, My Country, My Country
2006
March of the Penguins (2005)
GoodWatch score 76
WonMarch of the Penguins2005
Nominated: Darwin's Nightmare, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Murderball
2005
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
GoodWatch score 81
WonBorn into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids2004
Nominated: Tupac: Resurrection, Super Size Me, Twist of Faith, The Story of the Weeping Camel
2004
The Fog of War (2003)
GoodWatch score 86
WonThe Fog of War2003
Nominated: Capturing the Friedmans, Balseros, The Weather Underground
2003
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
GoodWatch score 74
WonBowling for Columbine2002
Nominated: Daughter from Danang, Winged Migration, Prisoner of Paradise, Spellbound
2002
Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
GoodWatch score 81
WonMurder on a Sunday Morning2001
Nominated: Children Underground, Promises, War Photographer
2001
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
GoodWatch score 81
WonInto the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport2000
Nominated: Sound and Fury, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, Long Night's Journey into Day
2000
One Day in September (1999)
GoodWatch score 84
WonOne Day in September1999
Nominated: Genghis Blues, On the Ropes, Speaking in Strings, Buena Vista Social Club
1999
The Last Days (1998)
GoodWatch score 81
WonThe Last Days1998
Nominated: The Farm: Angola, USA, Dancemaker, Regret to Inform, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
1998
The Long Way Home (1997)
GoodWatch score 87
WonThe Long Way Home1997
Nominated: Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, Colors Straight Up, 4 Little Girls, Waco: The Rules of Engagement
1997
When We Were Kings (1996)
GoodWatch score 86
WonWhen We Were Kings1996
Nominated: Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse, Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press, The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story, Mandela
1996
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
GoodWatch score 87
WonAnne Frank Remembered1995
Nominated: The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, Small Wonders
1995
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1995)
GoodWatch score 82
WonMaya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision1995
Nominated: A Great Day in Harlem, D-Day Remembered, Freedom on My Mind
1994
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993)
GoodWatch score 66
WonI Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School1993
Nominated: The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter, Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family, The War Room
1993
The Panama Deception (1992)
GoodWatch score 86
WonThe Panama Deception1992
Nominated: Fires of Kuwait, Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
1992
In the Shadow of the Stars (1991)
GoodWatch score 58
WonIn the Shadow of the Stars1991
Nominated: The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945, Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
1985
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
GoodWatch score 89
WonThe Times of Harvey Milk1984
Nominated: Soldiers in Hiding, Unfinished Business, Marlene, Streetwise
1973
Marjoe (1972)
GoodWatch score 88
WonMarjoe1972
Nominated: Malcolm X, The Ra Expeditions
1954
The Sea Around Us (1953)
GoodWatch score 60
WonThe Sea Around Us1953
WonThe Living Desert1953
Nominated: The Conquest of Everest, A Queen Is Crowned