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), and Signe Byrge Sørensen for The Look of Silence (2016).
