From title design to art direction to animated characters to motion graphics that illustrate complex, challenging or humourous ideas, the artists who work in visual design continue to play an increasingly important role in the construction of great nonfiction films. Previous winners in this category include Lewis Kofsky and Richard Winkler for Chicago 10 (2008), Yoni Goodman and David Polonsky for Waltz with Bashir (2009), Bigstar for Food, Inc. and Brett Gaylor & team for RIP: A Remix Manifesto (2010, tie), Juan Cardarelli, Eric M. Levy and Alex Tyson for Gasland (2012), Rob Feng and Jeremy Landman for Tabloid (2012), Oskar Gullstrand and Arvid Steen for Searching for Sugar Man (2013), Art Jail and Noriko Shinohara for Cutie and the Boxer (2014), Syd Garon for Jodorowsky’s Dune (2015), MK12 for Particle Fever (2015), Stefan Nadelman and Hisko Hulsing for Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2016), Craig Staggs and Keith Maitland for Tower (2017), Stefan Nadelman for Long Strange Trip (2018), Lucas Celler and Sandi Tan for Shirkers (2019), Patrick Cederberg, Matthew Hornick and Ash Thorp for The Great Hack (2020), Jenna Caravello and Arthur Jones for Feels Good Man (2021), Kenneth Ladekjær for Flee (2022), Stefan Nadelman for Moonage Daydream (2023), Lucy Munger, Kara Blake and Rui Ting Ji for Fire of Love (2023) and Thomas Curtis and Sean Prince for Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2024).
