2020

Nominees

• Apollo 11
• For Sama
• Honeyland
• Midnight Family
• One Child Nation

Nominees

• Feras FayyadFor The Cave
• Mads BrüggerFor Cold Case Hammarskjöld
• Ljubo Stefanov & Tamara KotevskaFor Honeyland
• Brett StoryFor The Hottest August
• Nanfu Wang & Jialing ZhangFor One Child Nation

Nominees

• Liza MandelupFor Jawline
• Ellen Fiske & Elinor HallinFor Scheme Birds
• Pia HellenthalFor Searching Eva
• Sarah ChristmanFor Swarm Season
• Jasmina WojcikFor Symphony for the Ursus Factory

Nominees

• 17 Blocks
• The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
• American Factory
• Apollo 11
• Ask Dr. Ruth
• The Cave
• For Sama
• Knock Down the House
• Maiden

Nominees

• Nicholas de PencierFor Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
• Victor KossakovskyFor Aquarela
• Luke LorentzenFor Midnight Family
• Diego Romero Suárez-LlanosFor What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?

Nominees

• Jennifer TiexieraFor 17 Blocks
• Lindsay UtzFor American Factory
• Alan BerlinerFor Letter to the Editor
• Billy McMillinFor Mike Wallace is Here

Nominees

• Chad CannonFor American Factory
• Rose Bolton & Norah LorwayFor Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
• Eicca ToppinenFor Aquarela
• 4th DiscipleFor Black Mother
• Dominik StrycharskiFor Symphony for the Ursus Factory

Nominees

• Todd Douglas Miller, Thomas Petersen & Evan KraussFor Apollo 11
• Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert & Sigrid DyekjærFor Aquarela
• Luke Lorentzen & Kellen QuinnFor Midnight Family
• Emelie Mahdavian & Su KimFor Midnight Traveler

Nominees

• Melinda GorhamFor Gay Chorus Deep South
• Hazel BairdFor The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
• Brian Kinley, Ben Luce & Jordan DomontFor Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
• Ryan WehnerFor Our Time Machine

Nominees

• Crannog
• Fast Horse
• Lowland Kids
• Stay Close
• Subject to Review

Shorts List

• All on a Mardi Gras Day
• In the Absence
• Life Overtakes Me
• St. Louis Superman

Nominees

• The Case Against Adnan Syed
• The Family
• Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
• Last Chance U: Season 4
• Salt Fat Acid Heat

Nominees

• Apollo: Missions to the Moon
• At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal
• Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
• Homecoming
• The Sentence

Nominees

• Neil GelinasFor Into the Okavango
• Luke McCoubreyFor Salt Fat Acid Heat
• Matt Porwoll & Ross KauffmanFor Tigerland

Nominees

• Alexander Hammer, Andrew Morrow, Nia Imani & Julian KlincewiczFor Homecoming
• Jules CornellFor Leaving Neverland
• Benji Kast, David Mehlman, Diana DiCilio & Seth SkundrickFor Tricky Dick

Nominees

• Always in Season
• Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World
• Dark Suns
• The Raft

Nominees

• Atlantics
• Honey Boy
• The Infiltrators
• Vitalina Varela

Honoree

• Koyaanisqatsi

Honorees

• Lea Tsemelin Advocate
• The Amazing Johnathanin The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
• Dr. Ruth Westheimerin Ask Dr. Ruth
• Dr. Amani Ballourin The Cave
• Benedetta Barziniin The Disappearance of My Mother
• Waadin For Sama
• Hamza al-Kateabin For Sama
• Lucien Greavesin Hail Satan?
• Hatidze Muratovain Honeyland
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezin Knock Down the House
• Tracy Edwardsin Maiden
• Juan Ochoain Midnight Family
• Fatima Hussainiin Midnight Traveler
• Hassan Fazilliin Midnight Traveler
• Freddy McConnellin Seahorse
• Judy Hillin What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?
• Chelsea Manningin XY Chelsea