«Bombay Beach» took the
top documentary prize at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and received a «Truer Than Fiction» Spirit Award nomination.
Joseph Kahn's rap satire Bodied took the Midnight Madness People's Choice Award, while Agnes Varda and J.R.'s Faces Places took the People's
Choice Documentary prize.
«Citizenfour» has taken most of the
early documentary prizes, but the other four nominated docs are all cinematic, meaningful movies too.
Winner of the 2015 Grand
Jury Documentary prize at Sundance this past January, this film — produced and edited by women, and with a mostly - female crew — tells the story of the six young Angulo brothers, who were raised in New York City with little to no contact with the outside world.
The fantastic political documentary «Weiner» took the prestigious
U.S. Documentary prize and «Sonita» earned the World Cinema Documentary honor.
So far the film has taken home Cannes» Golden
Eye Documentary prize, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. kudo, the New York Film Critics Circle award and recently scored an Independent Spirit nomination.
The film, which captures the tragedy in Aleppo, won the Best
World Documentary prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
«I Am Not Your Negro,» an examination of the life and thoughts of James Baldwin from director Raoul Peck, won the
top documentary prize.
«Life Itself,» Steve James's documentary about the life and work of Pulitzer Prize - winning film critic Roger Ebert, won the Best
Documentary prize at the 5th American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.
«Searching for Sugar Man» picked up the Best
Documentary prize and led to a massive resurgence in fortunes for its subject.
Searching For Sugar Man won
the Documentary prize, but the Outstanding Debut... award went to The Imposter's Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis.
Irish emigrant saga «Brooklyn» was named best British film, a distinct category, while
the documentary prize went to «Amy,» a powerful portrait of the rise and fall of singer Amy Winehouse.
Both won PGA's Animated and
Documentary prizes and are unlikely to be deafeated on Oscar night.
The main festival initiated
a documentary prize two festivals ago, which has resulted in a very minimal increase in the nonfiction presence at the festival.
Musician - driven documentaries have fared well at the Oscars in recent years, with «Searching for Sugar Man» winning
the documentary prize in 2013 and «Twenty Feet From Stardom» doing so in 2014.
The movie won
the documentary prize when it premiered at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival.
The documentary prize went to Joshua Oppenheimer's «The Act of Killing,» about an elderly band of former thugs in Indonesia, as that film emerges as an early Oscar front - runner.
The Best
Documentary prize was given to This Is Not a Film, which was also given a special award by the organization.
Also coming out on top at the festival is Dina, which won
the documentary prize for its unconventional look at a romance between two adults with differing neurological conditions.