Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary is an annual award given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Documentary	Director(s)
2002 [1]	The Kid Stays in the Picture	Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
	Standing in the Shadows of Motown	Paul Justman
2003[2]	The Fog of War	Errol Morris
2004[3]	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore
2005[4]	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	Alex Gibney
2006[5]	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim
2007[6]	Sicko	Michael Moore
2008[7]	Man on Wire	James Marsh
2009 [8][9]	Food, Inc.	Robert Kenner
	Anvil! The Story of Anvil	Sacha Gervasi
	Capitalism: A Love Story	Michael Moore
	The Cove	Louie Psihoyos
	Good Hair	Jeff Stilson

2010s

Year	Documentary	Director(s)
2010 [10]	Exit Through the Gift Shop	Banksy
	Inside Job	Charles Ferguson
	Restrepo	Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
	The Tillman Story	Amir Bar-Lev
	Waiting for "Superman"	Davis Guggenheim
2011 [11]	Cave of Forgotten Dreams	Werner Herzog
	Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey	Constance Marks
	Buck	Cindy Meehl
	Into the Abyss	Werner Herzog
	Project Nim	James Marsh
2012 [12]	Bully	Lee Hirsch
	The Imposter	Bart Layton
	The Invisible War	Kirby Dick
	The Queen of Versailles	Lauren Greenfield
	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul
2013 [13]	Blackfish	Gabriela Cowperthwaite
	20 Feet from Stardom	Morgan Neville
	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer
	Leviathan	Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
	Stories We Tell	Sarah Polley
2014	Life Itself	Steve James
	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras
	Jodorowsky's Dune	Frank Pavich
	Last Days in Vietnam	Rory Kennedy
	The Overnighters	Jesse Moss
2015 [14]	Amy	Asif Kapadia
	Best of Enemies	Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville
	Cartel Land	Matthew Heineman
	Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief	Alex Gibney
	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer
2016	13th	Ava DuVernay
	Gleason	Clay Tweel
	I Am Not Your Negro	Raoul Peck
	O.J.: Made in America	Ezra Edelman
	Weiner	Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
2017	Jane	Brett Morgen
	City of Ghosts	Matthew Heineman
	Faces Places	Agnès Varda and JR
	An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power	Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk
	Step	Amanda Lipitz
2018	Won't You Be My Neighbor?	Morgan Neville
	Free Solo	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
	RBG	Betsy West and Julie Cohen
	Science Fair	Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster
	Three Identical Strangers	Tim Wardle
2019	Apollo 11	Todd Douglas Miller
	American Factory	Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
	For Sama	Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
	Honeyland	Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev
	One Child Nation	Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

2020s

Year	Documentary	Director(s)
2020	Boys State	Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
	Collective	Alexander Nanau
	Crip Camp	Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht
	Dick Johnson Is Dead	Kirsten Johnson
	Time	Garrett Bradley
2021	Summer of Soul	Questlove
	The First Wave	Matthew Heineman
	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
	The Rescue	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
	Val	Leo Scott and Ting Poo
2022 [15]	Good Night Oppy	Ryan White
	All That Breathes	Shaunak Sen
	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed	Laura Poitras
	Descendant	Margaret Brown
	Fire of Love	Sara Dosa
2023 [16]	American Symphony	David Guggenheim
	20 Days in Mariupol	Mstyslav Chernov
	Little Richard: I Am Everything	Lisa Cortés
	Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie	Davis Guggenheim
	They Shot the Piano Player	Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
2024 [17]	Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story	Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui
	Dahomey	Mati Diop
	Daughters	Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
	Music by John Williams	Laurent Bouzereau
	No Other Land	Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor
	Will & Harper	Josh Greenbaum