The Honor for Directing celebrates the artist’s vision fully realized, from inception to screen. Previous winners in this category include Alex Gibney for Taxi to the Dark Side (2008), Ari Folman for Waltz with Bashir (2009), Agnès Varda for The Beaches of Agnès (2010), Laura Poitras for The Oath (2011), Steve James for The Interrupters (2012), Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady for Detropia (2013), Sarah Polley for Stories We Tell (2014), Laura Poitras for Citizenfour (2015), Joshua Oppenheimer for The Look of Silence (2016), Ezra Edelman for OJ: Made in America (2017), Yance Ford for Strong Island (2018), Bing Liu for Minding the Gap (2019), Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for American Factory (2020), Kirsten Johnson for Dick Johnson is Dead (2021), Robert Greene for Procession (2022), Laura Poitras for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2023), Kaouther Ben Hania for Four Daughters and Maite Alberdi for The Eternal Memory (2024).
