Without the producer, there is no film. They juggle the myriad of details and responsibilities of filmmaking – from finding subjects to hiring crew to raising money to completing the film. Previous winners in this category include Seth Kanegis, Tomas Radoor and Mikael Rieks for Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2008), Simon Chinn for Man on Wire (2009), Paula DuPré Pesman and Fisher Stevens for The Cove (2010), Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross for Last Train Home (2011), Gian-Piero Ringel and Wim Wenders for Pina (2012), Dimitri Doganis for The Imposter (2013), Signe Byrge Sørensen for The Act of Killing (2014), Laura Poitras, Malthilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky for Citizenfour (2015), Signe Byrge Sørensen for The Look of Silence (2016), Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow for OJ: Made in America (2017), Kareem Abeed, Stefan Kloos and Søren Steen Jespersen for Last Man in Aleppo (2018), Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill for Free Solo (2019), Waad al-Kateab for For Sama (2020), Kirstine Barford and Sigrid Dyekjær for The Cove (2020), David France, Alice Henty, Askold Kurov and Joy A. Tomchin for Welcome to Chechnya (2021), Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman and Leslie Norville for The First Wave (2022), Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris for Navalny (2023) and Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson Roth, Derl McCrudden and Vasilisa Stepanenko for 20 Days in Mariupol (2024).
