Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Documentary Film

The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best documentary of the year.

Winners

1990s

Year	Film
1997[1]	4 Little Girls[2]
	Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
	Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
1998[3]	The Big One
	The Cruise
	Wild Man Blues
1999[4]	Buena Vista Social Club
	42 Up
	American Movie
	Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
	Trekkies

2000s

Year	Film
2000[5]	The Filth and the Fury
	Dark Days
	The Eyes of Tammy Faye
	The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
	One Day in September
2001[6]	Startup.com
	Down from the Mountain
	In the Bedroom
	The Endurance
	The Gleaners and I
	Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
2002[7]	Bowling for Columbine
	Comedian
	Dogtown and Z-Boys
	The Kid Stays in the Picture
	Standing in the Shadows of Motown
2003[8]	Capturing the Friedmans
	The Fog of War
	Lost in La Mancha
	Spellbound
	Winged Migration
2004[9]	Fahrenheit 9/11
	Control Room
	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
	Super Size Me
	Touching the Void
2005[10]	Grizzly Man
	The Aristocrats
	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
	March of the Penguins
	Murderball
2006[11]	An Inconvenient Truth
	Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
	Jesus Camp
	Neil Young: Heart of Gold
	Shut Up & Sing
2007[12]	The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
	In the Shadow of the Moon
	Into Great Silence
	No End in Sight
	Sicko
2008[13]	Man on Wire
	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
	Encounters at the End of the World
	I.O.U.S.A.
	My Winnipeg
2009[14]	Anvil! The Story of Anvil
	The Beaches of Agnès
	Capitalism: A Love Story
	The Cove
	Food, Inc.

2010s

Year	Film
2010[15]	Exit Through the Gift Shop
	Catfish
	Inside Job
	Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
	Restrepo
	Waiting for “Superman”
2011[16]	Cave of Forgotten Dreams
	The Interrupters
	Into the Abyss
	Project Nim
	Tabloid
2012[17]	This Is Not a Film
	The Imposter
	The Invisible War
	Jiro Dreams of Sushi
	The Queen of Versailles
2013[18]	The Act of Killing
	56 Up
	At Berkeley
	Blackfish
	Stories We Tell
2014[19]	Life Itself
	Citizenfour
	The Missing Picture
	National Gallery
	The Overnighters
2015[20]	The Look of Silence[21]
	Amy
	Best of Enemies
	Cartel Land
	Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2016[22]	O.J.: Made in America[23]
	13th
	Cameraperson
	I Am Not Your Negro
	Weiner
2017[24]	Faces Places[25]
	Dawson City: Frozen Time
	Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
	Jane
	The Work
2018[26]	Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
	Free Solo
	Minding the Gap
	Shirkers
	Three Identical Strangers
2019[27]	Apollo 11[28]
	American Factory
	For Sama
	Honeyland
	One Child Nation

2020s

Year	Film
2020[29]	Dick Johnson Is Dead
	Boys State
	Collective
	The Painter and the Thief
	Time
2021[30]	Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
	Flee
	Procession
	The Rescue
	The Velvet Underground
2022[31]	Fire of Love
	All That Breathes
	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
	Good Night Oppy
	Moonage Daydream
2023[32]	20 Days in Mariupol
	American Symphony
	Beyond Utopia
	Kokomo City
	Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2024[33]	Dahomey
	Daughters
	Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
	Sugarcane
	Will & Harper