Oscar for bedste dokumentar

Oscar for bedste dokumentar (På engelsk Academy Award for Documentary Feature) er en filmpris der blev første gang blev uddelt i 1943, da den blev vundet af Det Britiske Informationsministerium for dets dokumentar ved navn Desert Victory. Den uddeles til den dokumentar der fanger essensen indenfor kategorien og som indeholder pålidelige fakta samt en god beretning.

Vindere og nominerede

1940'erne

År	Film	Nominerede
1942 (15.)
	The Battle of Midway	United States Navy
	Kokoda Front Line!	Australian News & Information Bureau
	Moscow Strikes Back	Artkino
	Prelude to War	United States Army Special Services
	Africa, Prelude to Victory	The March of Time
	Combat Report	United States Army Signal Corps
	Conquer by the Clock	Frederic Ullman Jr.
	The Grain That Built a Hemisphere	Walt Disney
	Henry Browne, Farmer	United States Department of Agriculture
	High Over the Borders	National Film Board of Canada
	High Stakes in the East	The Netherlands Information Bureau
	Inside Fighting China	National Film Board of Canada
	It's Everybody's War	United States Office of War Information
	Listen to Britain	British Ministry of Information
	Little Belgium	British Ministry of Information
	Little Isles of Freedom	Victor Stoloff og Edgar Loew
	Mr. Blabbermouth	United States Office of War Information
	Mr. Gardenia Jones	United States Office of War Information
	The New Spirit	Walt Disney
	The Price of Victory	William H. Pine
	A Ship Is Born	United States Merchant Marine
	Twenty-One Miles	British Ministry of Information
	We Refuse to Die	William C. Thomas
	The White Eagle	Concanen Films
	Winning Your Wings	United States Army Air Force
1943 (16.)
	Desert Victory	British Ministry of Information
	Baptism of Fire	United States Army
	The Battle of Russia	United States Department of War Special Service Division
	Report from the Aleutians	United States Army Pictorial Service
	War Department Report	United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau
1944 (17.)
	The Fighting Lady	United States Navy
	Resisting Enemy Interrogation	United States Army Air Force
1945 (18.)
	The True Glory	The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America
	The Last Bomb	United States Army Air Force
1946 (19.)
	Ingen pris uddelt
1947 (20.)
	Design for Death	Sid Rogell, Theron Warth og Richard Fleischer
	Journey into Medicine	United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange
	The World Is Rich	Paul Rotha
1948 (21.)
	The Secret Land	Orville O. Dull
	The Quiet One	Janice Loeb
1949 (22.)
	Daybreak in Udi	Crown Film Unit
	Kenji Comes Home	Paul F. Heard

1950'erne

År	Film	Nominerede
1950 (23.)
	The Titan: Story of Michelangelo	Robert Snyder
	With These Hands	Jack Arnold og Lee Goodman
1951 (24.)
	Kon-Tiki	Olle Nordemar
	I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.	Bryan Foy
1952 (25.)
	The Sea Around Us	Irwin Allen
	The Hoaxters	Dore Schary
	Navajo	Hall Bartlett
1953 (26.)
	The Living Desert	Walt Disney
	The Conquest of Everest	John Taylor, Leon Clore og Grahame Tharp
	A Queen Is Crowned	Castleton Knight
1954 (27.)
	The Vanishing Prairie	Walt Disney
	The Stratford Adventure	Guy Glover
1955 (28.)
	Helen Keller in Her Story	Nancy Hamilton
	Heartbreak Ridge	Rene Risacher
1956 (29.)
	The Silent World	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
	The Naked Eye	Louis Clyde Stoumen
	Hvor bjergene sejler	Ministeriernes Filmudvalg
1957 (30.)
	Albert Schweitzer	Jerome Hill
	On the Bowery	Lionel Rogosin
	Torero!	Manuel Barbachano Ponce
1958 (31.)
	White Wilderness	Ben Sharpsteen
	Antarctic Crossing	James Carr
	The Hidden World	Robert Snyder
	Psychiatric Nursing	Nathan Zucker
1959 (32.)
	Serengeti Shall Not Die	Bernhard Grzimek
	The Race for Space	David L. Wolper

1960'erne

År	Film	Nominerede
1960 (33.)
	The Horse with the Flying Tail	Larry Lansburgh
	Rebel in Paradise	Robert D. Fraser
1961 (34.)
	Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)	Arthur Cohn og Rene Lafuite
	La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960)	dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade
1962 (35.)
	Black Fox	Louis Clyde Stoumen
	Alvorada (Brazil's Changing Face)	Hugo Niebeling
1963 (36.)
	Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World	Robert Hughes
	Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain)	Paul de Roubaix
	The Yanks Are Coming	Marshall Flaum
1964 (37.)
	Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
	The Finest Hours	Jack Le Vien
	Four Days in November	Mel Stuart
	The Human Dutch	Bert Haanstra
	Over There, 1914-18	Jean Aurel
1965 (38.)
	The Eleanor Roosevelt Story	Sidney Glazier
	The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles	Laurence E. Mascott
	The Forth Road Bridge	Peter Mills
	Let My People Go	Marshall Flaum
	To Die in Madrid	Frédéric Rossif
1966 (39.)
	The War Game	Peter Watkins
	The Face of a Genius	Alfred R. Kelman
	Helicopter Canada	Peter Jones og Tom Daly
	The Really Big Family	Alex Grasshoff
	Le Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano)	Haroun Tazieff
1967 (40.)
	The Anderson Platoon	Pierre Schoendoerffer
	Festival	Murray Lerner
	Harvest	Carroll Ballard
	A King's Story	Jack Le Vien
	A Time for Burning	William C. Jersey
1968 (41.)
	Journey into Self	Bill McGaw
	A Few Notes on Our Food Problem	James Blue
	The Legendary Champions	William Cayton
	Other Voices	David H. Sawyer
1969 (42.)
	Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life	Bernard Chevry
	Before the Mountain Was Moved	Robert K. Sharpe
	In the Year of the Pig	Emile de Antonio
	The Olympics in Mexico	Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada
	The Wolf Men	Irwin Rosten

1970'erne

År	Film	Nominerede
1970 (43.)
	Woodstock	Bob Maurice
	Chariots of the Gods	Dr. Harald Reinl
	Jack Johnson	Jim Jacobs
	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Ely Landau
	Say Goodbye	David H. Vowell
1971 (44.)
	The Hellstrom Chronicle	Walon Green
	Alaska Wilderness Lake	Alan Landsburg
	On Any Sunday	Bruce Brown
	The RA Expeditions	Lennart Ehrenborg og Thor Heyerdahl
	The Sorrow and the Pity	Marcel Ophüls
1972 (45.)
	Marjoe	Howard Smith og Sarah Kernochan
	Ape and Super-Ape	Bert Haanstra
	Malcolm X	Marvin Worth og Arnold Perl
	Manson	Robert Hendrickson og Laurence Merrick
	The Silent Revolution	Eckehard Munck
1973 (46.)
	The Great American Cowboy	Kieth Merrill
	Always a New Beginning	John D. Goodell
	Battle of Berlin	Bengt von zur Muehlen
	Journey to the Outer Limits	Alexander Grasshoff
	Walls of Fire	Gertrude Ross Marks and Edmund F. Penney
1974 (47.)
	Hearts and Minds	Peter Davis og Bert Schneider
	Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman	Judy Collins og Jill Godmilow
	The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art	Herbert Kline
	The 81st Blow	Jacquot Ehrlich, David Bergman og Haim Gouri
	The Wild and the Brave	Natalie R. Jones og Eugene S. Jones
1975 (48.)
	The Man Who Skied Down Everest	F. R. Crawley, James Hager og Dale Hartlebe
	The California Reich	Walter F. Parkes og Keith F. Critchlow
	Fighting for Our Lives	Glen Pearcy
	Man: The Incredible Machine	Irwin Rosten
	The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir	Shirley MacLaine
1976 (49.)
	Harlan County, U.S.A.	Barbara Kopple
	Hollywood on Trial	James Gutman og David Helpern Jr.
	Off the Edge	Michael Firth
	People of the Wind	Anthony Howarth og David Koff
	Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry	Donald Brittain og Robert Duncan
1977 (50.)
	Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?	John Korty, Dan McCann og Warren L. Lockhart
	The Children of Theatre Street	Robert Dornhelm og Earle Mack
	High Grass Circus	Bill Brind, Torben Schioler og Tony Ianzelo
	Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love	Harry Rasky
	Union Maids	James Klein, Julia Reichert og Miles Mogulescu
1978 (51.)
	Scared Straight!	Arnold Shapiro
	The Lovers' Wind	Albert Lamorisse
	Mysterious Castles of Clay	Alan Root
	Raoni	Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams og Michel Gast
	With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade	Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb og Lorraine Gray
1979 (52.)
	Best Boy	Ira Wohl
	Generation on the Wind	David A. Vassar
	Going the Distance	Paul Cowan og Jacques Bobet
	The Killing Ground	Steve Singer og Tom Priestley
	The War at Home	Glenn Silber og Barry Alexander Brown

1980'erne

År	Film	Nominerede
1980 (53.)
	From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China	Murray Lerner
	Agee	Ross Spears
	The Day After Trinity	Jon Else
	Front Line	David Bradbury
	The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45	Bengt von zur Muehlen og Arthur Cohn
1981 (54.)
	Genocide	Arnold Schwartzman og Rabbi Marvin Hier
	Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey	Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin og Jim Burroughs
	Brooklyn Bridge	Ken Burns
	Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott	Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson og Boyd Estus
	El Salvador: Another Vietnam	Glenn Silber og Tete Vasconcellos
1982 (55.)
	Just Another Missing Kid	John Zaritsky
	After the Axe	Sturla Gunnarsson og Steve Lucas
	Ben's Mill	John Karol and Michel Chalufour
	In Our Water	Meg Switzgable
	A Portrait of Giselle	Joseph Wishy
1983 (56.)
	He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'	Emile Ardolino
	Children of Darkness	Richard Kotuk og Ara Chekmayan
	First Contact	Bob Connolly og Robin Anderson
	The Profession of Arms	Michael Bryans og Tina Viljoen
	Seeing Red	James Klein og Julia Reichert
1984 (57.)
	The Times of Harvey Milk	Rob Epstein og Richard Schmiechen
	High Schools	Charles Guggenheim og Nancy Sloss
	In the Name of the People	Alex W. Drehsler og Frank Christopher
	Marlene	Karel Dirka og Zev Braun
	Streetwise	Cheryl McCall
1985 (58.)
	Broken Rainbow	Maria Florio og Victoria Mudd
	Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Susana Blaustein Muñoz og Lourdes Portillo
	Soldiers in Hiding	Japhet Asher
	The Statue of Liberty	Ken Burns og Buddy Squires
	Unfinished Business	Steven Okazaki
1986 (59.)
	Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got	Brigitte Berman
	Down and Out in America	Joseph Feury og Milton Justice
	Chile: Hasta Cuando?	David Bradbury
	Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer	Kirk Simon og Amram Nowak
	Witness to Apartheid	Sharon I. Sopher
1987 (60.)
	The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table	Aviva Slesin
	Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965	Callie Crossley og James A. DeVinney
	Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima	John Junkerman og John W. Dower
	Radio Bikini	Robert Stone
	A Stitch for Time	Barbara Herbich og Cyril Christo
1988 (61.)
	Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie	Marcel Ophüls
	The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out	Robert Bilheimer og Ronald Mix
	Let's Get Lost	Bruce Weber og Nan Bush
	Promises to Keep	Ginny Durrin
	Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Renee Tajima-Peña og Christine Choy
1989 (62.)
	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt	Rob Epstein og Bill Couturié
	Adam Clayton Powell	Richard Kilberg og Yvonne Smith
	Crack USA: County Under Siege	Vince DiPersio og William Guttentag
	For All Mankind	Al Reinert og Betsy Broyles Breier
	Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren	Judith Leonard og Bill Jersey

1990'erne

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

2000'erne

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

2010'erne

År	Film	Nominerede
2010 (83.)
	Inside Job	Charles H. Ferguson og Audrey Marrs
	Exit Through the Gift Shop	Banksy og Jaimie D'Cruz
	Gasland	Josh Fox og Trish Adlesic
	Restrepo	Tim Hetherington og Sebastian Junger
	Waste Land	Lucy Walker og Angus Aynsley
2011 (84.)
	Undefeated	TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay og Richard Middlemas
	Hell and Back Again	Danfung Dennis og Mike Lerner
	If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front	Marshall Curry og Sam Cullman
	Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory	Joe Berlinger og Bruce Sinofsky
	Pina	Wim Wenders og Gian-Piero Ringel
2012 (85.)
	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul og Simon Chinn
	5 Broken Cameras	Emad Burnat og Guy Davidi
	The Gatekeepers	Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky og Estelle Fialon
	How to Survive a Plague	David France og Howard Gertler
	The Invisible War	Kirby Dick og Amy Ziering
2013 (86.)
	20 Feet from Stardom	Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen og Caitrin Rogers
	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer og Signe Byrge Sørensen
	Cutie and the Boxer	Zachary Heinzerling og Lydia Dean Pilcher
	Dirty Wars	Richard Rowley og Jeremy Scahill
	The Square	Jehane Noujaim og Karim Amer
2014 (87.)
	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy og Dirk Wilutzky
	Finding Vivian Maier	John Maloof og Charlie Siskel
	Last Days in Vietnam	Rory Kennedy og Kevin McAlester
	The Salt of the Earth	Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado og David Rosier
	Virunga	Orlando von Einsiedel og Joanna Natasegara
2015 (88.)
	Amy	Asif Kapadia og James Gay-Rees
	Cartel Land	Matthew Heineman og Tom Yellin
	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer og Signe Byrge Sørensen
	What Happened, Miss Simone?	Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby og Justin Wilkes
	Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom	Evgeny Afineevsky og Den Tolmor
2016 (89.)
	O.J.: Made in America	Ezra Edelman og Caroline Waterlow
	Fire at Sea	Gianfranco Rosi og Donatella Palermo
	I Am Not Your Negro	Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety og Hébert Peck
	Life, Animated	Roger Ross Williams og Julie Goldman
	13th	Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick og Howard Barish