Óscar ó mellor documental

O Oscar ó mellor documental é un premio que galardoa os mellores filmes documentais.

Gañadores e nomeados

1940

En 1942, había unha soa categoría de Documental, con vinte e cinco nomeados e catro gañadores.

• 1942 - Gañadores:
  • The Battle of Midway
  • Kokoda Front Line!
  • Moscow Strikes Back
  • Prelude to War
• Nomeados:
  • Africa, Prelude to Victory
  • Combat Report
  • Conquer by the Clock
  • The Grain That Built a Hemisphere
  • Henry Browne, Farmer
  • High Over the Borders
  • High Stakes in the East
  • Inside Fighting China
  • It's Everybody's War
  • Listen to Britain
  • Little Belgium
  • Little Isles of Freedom
  • Mr. Blabbermouth!
  • Mister Gardenia Jones
  • The New Spirit
  • The Price of Victory
  • A Ship Is Born
  • Twenty-One Miles
  • We Refuse to Die
  • The White Eagle
  • Winning Your Wings

Dende 1943, a categoría foi separada en dúas (documental e curta documental).

• 1943 - Desert Victory
  • Baptism of Fire
  • The Battle of Russia
  • Report from the Aleutians
  • War Department Report
• 1944 - The Fighting Lady
  • Resisting Enemy Interrogation
• 1945 - The True Glory
  • The Last Bomb
• 1946 - non entregado
• 1947 - Design for Death
  • Journey Into Medicine
  • The World Is Rich
• 1948 - The Secret Land
  • The Quiet One
• 1949 - Daybreak in Udi
  • Kenji Comes Home

1950

• 1950 - The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
  • With These Hands
• 1951 - Kon-Tiki
  • I Was a Communist for the FBI
• 1952 - The Sea Around Us
  • The Hoaxters
  • Navajo
• 1953 - The Living Desert
  • The Conquest of Everest
  • A Queen Is Crowned
• 1954 - The Vanishing Prairie
  • The Stratford Adventure
• 1955 - Helen Keller in Her Story
  • Crèvecoeur
• 1956 - Le Monde du silence
  • Hvor bjergene sejler
  • The Naked Eye
• 1957 - Albert Schweitzer
  • On the Bowery
  • Torero
• 1958 - White Wilderness
  • Antarctic Crossing
  • The Hidden World
  • Psychiatric Nursing
• 1959 - Serengeti Shall Not Die
  • The Race for Space

1960

• 1960 - The Horse with the Flying Tail
  • Rebel in Paradise
• 1961 - Sky Above and Mud Beneath, dirixido por Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
  • La grande olimpiade, dirixido por Romolo Marcellini
• 1962 - Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
  • Alvorada-Hugo Niebeling
• 1963 - Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
  • Le Maillon et la chaîne
  • The Yanks Are Coming
• 1964 - World Without Sun
  • 14-18
  • Alleman
  • The Finest Hours
  • Four Days in November
• 1965 - The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
  • The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
  • The Forth Road Bridge
  • Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
  • Mourir à Madrid
• 1966 - The War Game
  • The Face of a Genius
  • Helicopter Canada
  • The Really Big Family
  • Le Volcan interdit
• 1967 - The Anderson Platoon
  • Festival
  • Harvest
  • A King's Story
  • A Time for Burning
• 1968 - Journey into Self
  • A Few Notes on Our Food Problem
  • Legendary Champions
  • Other Voices
• 1969 - Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
  • Before the Mountain Was Moved
  • In the Year of the Pig
  • Olimpiada en México
  • The Wolf Men

1970

• 1970 - Woodstock
  • Erinnerungen an die Zukunft
  • Jack Johnson
  • King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
  • Say Goodbye
• 1971 - The Hellstrom Chronicle
  • Alaska Wilderness Lake
  • Le chagrin et la pitié
  • On Any Sunday
  • Ra
• 1972 - Marjoe
  • Bij de beesten af
  • Malcolm X
  • Manson
  • The Silent Revolution
• 1973 - The Great American Cowboy
  • Always a New Beginning
  • Journey to the Outer Limits
  • Schlacht um Berlin
  • Walls of Fire
• 1974 - Hearts and Minds
  • Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
  • The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
  • The 81st Blow
  • The Wild and the Brave
• 1975 - The Man Who Skied Down Everest
  • The California Reich
  • Fighting for Our Lives
  • The Incredible Machine
  • The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
• 1976 - Harlan County, USA dirixido por Barbara Kopple
  • Hollywood on Trial
  • Off the Edge
  • People of the Wind
  • Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
• 1977 - Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
  • The Children of Theatre Street
  • High Grass Circus
  • Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
  • Union Maids
• 1978 - Scared Straight!
  • Mysterious Castles of Clay
  • Raoni
  • Le vent des amoureux
  • With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
• 1979 - Best Boy
  • Generation on the Wind
  • Going the Distance
  • The Killing Ground
  • The War at Home

1980

• 1980 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China dirixido por Murray Lerner
  • Agee
  • The Day After Trinity
  • Front Line
  • The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45
• 1981 Genocide dirixido por Arnold Schwartzman
  • Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott
  • El Salvador: Another Vietnam
• 1982 Just Another Missing Kid dirixido por John Zaritsky
  • A Portrait of Giselle
  • After the Axe
  • Ben's Mill
  • In Our Water
• 1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' dirixido por Emile Ardolino
  • Children of Darkness
  • First Contact
  • The Profession of Arms
  • Seeing Red
• 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk dirixido por Rob Epstein e Richard Schmiechen
  • High Schools
  • In the Name of the People
  • Marlene
  • Streetwise
• 1985 Broken Rainbow dirixido por Maria Florio e Victoria Mudd
  • The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
  • Soldiers in Hiding
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • Unfinished Business
• 1986: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got e Down and Out in America
  • Chile: Hasta Cuando?
  • Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Witness to Apartheid
• 1987 The Ten-Year Lunch
  • Eyes on the Prize
  • Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
  • Radio Bikini
  • A Stitch for Time
• 1988 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
  • The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out
  • Let's Get Lost
  • Promises to Keep
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin?
• 1989 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt – Rob Epstein e Bill Couturié
  • Adam Clayton Powell – Richard Kilberg e Yvonne Smith
  • Crack USA: County Under Siege – Vince DiPersio e William Guttentag
  • For All Mankind – Al Reinert e Betsy Broyles Breier
  • Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren – Judith Leonard e Bill Jersey

1990

Ano	Filme	Nomes
1990 (63ª)
	American Dream	Barbara Kopple e Arthur Cohn
	Berkeley in the Sixties	Mark Kitchell
	Building Bombs	Mark Mori e Susan Robinson
	Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade	Judith Montell
	Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey	Robert Hillmann e Eugene Corr
1991 (64ª)
	In the Shadow of the Stars	Allie Light e Irving Saraf
	Death on the Job	Vince DiPersio e William Guttentag
	Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House	Alan Raymond e Susan Raymond
	The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945	Hava Kohav Beller
	Wild by Law	Lawrence Hott e Diane Garey
1992 (65ª)
	The Panama Deception	Barbara Trent e David Kasper
	Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker	David Haugland
	Fires of Kuwait	Sally Dundas
	Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II	Bill Miles e Nina Rosenblum
	Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann	Margaret Smilow e Roma Baran
1993 (66ª)
	I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School	Susan Raymond e Alan Raymond
	The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter	David Paperny e Arthur Ginsberg
	Children of Fate	Susan Todd e Andrew Young
	For Better or For Worse	David Collier e Betsy Thompson
	The War Room	D. A. Pennebaker e Chris Hegedus
1994 (67ª)
	Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	Freida Lee Mock
	Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter	Deborah Hoffmann
	D-Day Remembered	Charles Guggenheim
	Freedom on My Mind	Connie Field e Marilyn Mulford
	A Great Day in Harlem	Jean Bach
1995 (68ª)
	Anne Frank Remembered	Jon Blair
	The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Thomas Lennon e Michael Epstein
	Fiddlefest: Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program	Allan Miller e Walter Scheuer
	Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream	Mike Tollin e Fredric Golding
	Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Jeanne Jordan e Steven Ascher
1996 (69ª)
	When We Were Kings	Leon Gast e David Sonenberg
	The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story	Susan W. Dryfoos
	Mandela	Jo Menell e Angus Gibson
	Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse	Anne Belle e Deborah Dickson
	Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press	Rick Goldsmith
1997 (70ª)
	The Long Way Home	Marvin Hier e Richard Trank
	Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life	Michael Paxton
	Colors Straight Up	Michèle Ohayon e Julia Schachter
	4 Little Girls	Spike Lee e Sam Pollard
	Waco: The Rules of Engagement	Dan Gifford e William Gazecki
1998 (71ª)
	The Last Days	James Moll e Ken Lipper
	Dancemaker	Matthew Diamond e Jerry Kupfer
	The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.	Jonathan Stack e Liz Garbus
	Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth	Robert B. Weide
	Regret to Inform	Barbara Sonneborn e Janet Cole
1999 (72ª)
	One Day in September	Arthur Cohn e Kevin Macdonald
	Buena Vista Social Club	Wim Wenders e Ulrich Felsberg
	Genghis Blues	Roko Belic e Adrian Belic
	On the Ropes	Nanette Burstein e Brett Morgen
	Speaking in Strings	Paola di Florio e Lilibet Foster

2000

Ano	Filme	Nomes
2000 (73ª)
	Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport	Mark Jonathan Harris e Deborah Oppenheimer
	Legacy	Tod Lending
	Long Night's Journey into Day	Deborah Hoffmann e Frances Reid
	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy	Daniel Anker e Barak Goodman
	Sound and Fury	Josh Aronson e Roger Weisberg
2001 (74ª)
	Murder on a Sunday Morning	Jean-Xavier de Lestrade e Denis Poncet
	Children Underground	Edet Belzberg
	LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton	Deborah Dickson e Susan Frömke
	Promises	B.Z. Goldberg e Justine Shapiro
	War Photographer	Christian Frei
2002 (75ª)
	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Moore e Michael Donovan
	Daughter from Danang	Gail Dolgin e Vicente Franco
	Prisoner of Paradise	Malcolm Clarke e Stuart Sender
	Spellbound	Jeffrey Blitz e Sean Welch
	Winged Migration	Jacques Perrin
2003 (76ª)
	The Fog of War	Errol Morris e Michael Williams
	Balseros	Carlos Bosch e Josep Maria Domenech
	Capturing the Friedmans	Andrew Jarecki e Marc Smerling
	My Architect	Nathaniel Kahn e Susan R. Behr
	The Weather Underground	Sam Green e Bill Siegel
2004 (77ª)
	Born into Brothels	Ross Kauffman e Zana Briski
	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Byambasuren Davaa e Luigi Falorni
	Super Size Me	Morgan Spurlock
	Tupac: Resurrection	Karolyn Ali e Lauren Lazin
	Twist of Faith	Kirby Dick e Eddie Schmidt
2005 (78ª)
	A viaxe do Emperador	Luc Jacquet e Yves Darondeau
	Darwin's Nightmare	Hubert Sauper
	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	Alex Gibney e Jason Kliot
	Murderball	Henry Alex Rubin e Dana Adam Shapiro
	Street Fight	Marshall Curry
2006 (79ª)
	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim
	Deliver Us from Evil	Amy Berg, Frank Donner, e Matthew Cooke
	Iraq in Fragments	James Longley e Yahya Sinno
	Jesus Camp	Heidi Ewing e Rachel Grady
	My Country, My Country	Jocelyn Glatzer e Laura Poitras
2007 (80ª)
	Taxi to the Dark Side	Alex Gibney e Eva Orner
	No End in Sight	Charles Ferguson e Audrey Marrs
	Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience	Richard Robbins
	Sicko	Michael Moore e Meghan O'Hara
	War/Dance	Sean Fine e Andrea Nix
2008 (81ª)
	Man on Wire	Simon Chinn e James Marsh
	Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)	Ellen Kuras e Thavisouk Phrasavath
	Encounters at the End of the World	Werner Herzog e Henry Kaiser
	The Garden	Scott Hamilton Kennedy
	Trouble the Water	Carl Deal e Tia Lessin
2009 (82ª)
	The Cove	Louie Psihoyos e Fisher Stevens
	Burma VJ	Anders Østergaard e Lise Lense-Møller
	Food, Inc.	Robert Kenner e Elise Pearlstein
	The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers	Judith Ehrlich e Rick Goldsmith
	Which Way Home	Rebecca Cammisa

2010

Ano	Filme	Nomes
2010 (83ª)
	Inside Job	Charles H. Ferguson e Audrey Marrs
	Exit Through the Gift Shop	Banksy e Jaimie D'Cruz
	Gasland	Josh Fox e Trish Adlesic
	Restrepo	Tim Hetherington e Sebastian Junger
	Waste Land	Lucy Walker e Angus Aynsley
2011 (84ª)
	Undefeated	TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay e Richard Middlemas
	Hell and Back Again	Danfung Dennis e Mike Lerner
	If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front	Marshall Curry e Sam Cullman
	Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory	Joe Berlinger e Bruce Sinofsky
	Pina	Wim Wenders e Gian-Piero Ringel
2012 (85ª)
	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul e Simon Chinn
	5 Broken Cameras	Emad Burnat e Guy Davidi
	The Gatekeepers	Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky e Estelle Fialon
	How to Survive a Plague	David France e Howard Gertler
	The Invisible War	Kirby Dick e Amy Ziering
2013 (86ª)
	20 Feet from Stardom	Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers
	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer e Signe Byrge Sørensen
	Cutie and the Boxer	Zachary Heinzerling e Lydia Dean Pilcher
	Dirty Wars	Richard Rowley e Jeremy Scahill
	The Square	Jehane Noujaim e Karim Amer
2014 (87ª)
	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy e Dirk Wilutzky
	Finding Vivian Maier	John Maloof e Charlie Siskel
	Last Days in Vietnam	Rory Kennedy e Kevin McAlester
	The Salt of the Earth	Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado e David Rosier
	Virunga	Orlando von Einsiedel e Joanna Natasegara
2015 (88ª)
	Amy	Asif Kapadia e James Gay-Rees
	Cartel Land	Matthew Heineman e Tom Yellin
	Senyap	Joshua Oppenheimer e Signe Byrge Sørensen
	What Happened, Miss Simone?	Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby e Justin Wilkes
	Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom	Evgeny Afineevsky e Den Tolmor
2016 (89ª)
	O.J.: Made in America	Ezra Edelman e Caroline Waterlow
	13th	Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick e Howard Barish
	Fuocoammare	Gianfranco Rosi e Donatella Palermo
	I Am Not Your Negro	Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety e Hébert Peck
	Life, Animated	Roger Ross Williams e Julie Goldman
2017 (90ª)
	Icarus	Bryan Fogel e Dan Cogan
	Abacus: Small Enough to Jail	Steve James, Mark Mitten e Julie Goldman
	Faces Places	Agnès Varda, JR e Rosalie Varda
	Last Men in Aleppo	Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed e Søren Steen Jespersen
	Strong Island	Yance Ford e Joslyn Barnes
2018 (91ª)
	Free Solo	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes e Shannon Dill
	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes e Su Kim
	Minding the Gap	Bing Liu e Diane Quon
	Of Fathers and Sons	Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme e Tobias N. Siebert
	RBG	Betsy West e Julie Cohen
2019 (92ª)
	American Factory	Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert e Jeff Reichert
	The Cave	Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod e Sigrid Dyekjær
	Democracia em Vertigem	Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris e Tiago Pavan
	For Sama	Waad al-Kateab e Edward Watts
	Medena zemja	Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska e Atanas Georgiev

2020

Ano	Filme	Nomes
2020/21 (93ª)
	My Octopus Teacher	Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed e Craig Foster
	Colectiv	Alexander Nanau e Bianca Oana
	Crip Camp	Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht e Sara Bolder
	El agente topo	Maite Alberdi e Marcela Santibáñez
	Time	Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino e Kellen Quinn
2021 (94ª)
	Summer of Soul	Questlove, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent e David Dinerstein
	Ascension	Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy e Nathan Truesdell
	Attica	Stanley Nelson e Traci A. Curry
	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen e Charlotte De La Gournerie
	Writing with Fire	Rintu Thomas e Sushmit Ghosh