Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
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Winner
Cameraperson
Directed by Kirsten Johnson
Produced by Kirsten Johnson and Marilyn Ness -
Fire at Sea
Directed by Gianfranco Rosi
Produced by Donatello Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou and Camille Laemlé -
I Am Not Your Negro
Directed by Raoul Peck
Produced by Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck and Hébert Peck -
OJ: Made in America
Directed by Ezra Edelman
Produced by Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow -
The Look of Silence
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen -
Weiner
Directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Produced by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
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Kirsten Johnson
For Cameraperson
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Gianfranco Rosi
For Fire at Sea
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Raoul Peck
For I Am Not Your Negro
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Robert Greene
For Kate Plays Christine
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Winner
Ezra Edelman
For OJ: Made in America
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
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Winner
Nels Bangerter
For Cameraperson
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Clay Tweel
For Gleason
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Alexandra Strauss
For I Am Not Your Negro
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Bret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski
For OJ: Made in America
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Eli Despres
For Weiner
Outstanding Achievement in Production
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Stacey Reiss, Sharon Chang and Otto Bell
For The Eagle Huntress
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Donatello Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou and Camille Laemmlé
For Fire at Sea
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Winner
Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
For OJ: Made in America
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Carthew Neal
For Tickled
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Marc Shmuger and Alex Gibney
For Zero Days
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
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Michal Marczak and Maciej Twardowski
For All These Sleepless Nights
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Winner
Kirsten Johnson
For Cameraperson
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Jarred Alterman
For Contemporary Color
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Simon Niblett
For The Eagle Huntress
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Gianfranco Rosi
For Fire at Sea
Audience Choice
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Winner
Gleason
Directed by Clay Tweel
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I Am Not Your Negro
Directed by Raoul Peck
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Life, Animated
Directed by Roger Ross Williams
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Miss Sharon Jones!
Directed by Barbara Kopple
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Mr. Gaga
Directed by Tomer Heymann
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Presenting Princess Shaw
Directed by Ido Haar
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Sonita
Directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
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Tickled
David Farrier and Dylan Reeve
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Tower
Directed by Keith Maitland
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Weiner
Directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
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Craig Atkinson
For Do Not Resist
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Otto Bell
For The Eagle Huntress
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Jessica Edwards
For Mavis!
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Winner
Nanfu Wang
For Hooligan Sparrow
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David Farrier and Dylan Reeve
For Tickled
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Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel
For When Two Worlds Collide
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
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Lubomir Grzelak
For All These Sleepless Nights
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Winner
David Byrne, LeeAnn Rossi and Aaron Rosenblum
For Contemporary Color
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Alexei Aigui
For I Am Not Your Negro
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Alex Lu
For In the Pursuit of Silence
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Gary Lionelli
For OJ: Made in America
Outstanding Achievement
in Graphic Design or Animation
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Ana Gomez Bernaus, Christopher Kirk and Syd Garon (MindBomb)
For Author: The JT Leroy Story
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Philippe Sonrier (Mac Guff) and Brian Bowman (Trollback)
For Life, Animated
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James Belfer and Daniel Shepard (Cartuna)
For Nuts!
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Winner
Craig Staggs and Keith Maitland (Minnow Mountain)
For Tower
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Marc Smith (Framestore), Alexander Porter (Scatter) and Nick Gibney (Jigsaw Productions)
For Zero Days
Spotlight Award
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All this Panic
Directed by Jenny Gage
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Among the Believers
Directed by Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi
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Dead Slow Ahead
Directed by Mauro Herce
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The Land of the Enlightened
Directed by Pieter-Jan De Pue
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The Pearl
Directed by Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca
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Winner
Les Sauteurs (Those Who Jump)
Directed by Estephan Wagner and Moritz Siebert
Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Films Made for Television
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Happy Valley
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev
Produced by Jonathan Koch, Steve Michaels, John Battsek and Ken Dornstein
For A&E IndieFilms: Molly Thompson, Robert DeBitetto and David McKillop -
Heroin: Cape Cod, USA
Directed and Produced Steven Okazaki
For HBO Documentary Films: Sara Bernstein and Sheila Nevins -
How to Dance in Ohio
Directed by Alexandra Shiva
Produced by Alexandra Shiva and Bari Pulman
For HBO Documentary Films: Nancy Abraham and Sheila Nevins -
Winner
Making a Murderer
Directed and Produced by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos
For Netflix: Lisa Nishimura and Adam Del Deo -
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
Produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein and Mona Card
For HBO Documentary Films: Sara Bernstein and Sheila Nevins -
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Directed by Sophie Robinson and Lotje Sodderlan
Produced by Sophie Robinson
For Netflix: Lisa Nishimura and Adam Del Deo
Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
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Bacon and God’s Wrath
Directed by Sol Friedman
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Extremis
Directed by Dan Krauss
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Winner
La Laguna
Directed by Aaron Schock
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My Aleppo
Directed by Melissa Langer
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Peace in the Valley
Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher
Heterodox Award
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Winner
All These Sleepless Nights
Directed by Michal Marczak
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The Fits
Directed by Anna Rose Holmer
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Kate Plays Christine
Directed by Robert Greene
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Mountains May Depart
Directed by Jia Zhangke
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Neon Bull
Directed by Gabriel Mascaro
Legacy Award
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Winner
The Times of Harvey Milk
Directed by Directed by Rob Epstein
The Unforgettables
The year’s most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects (previously announced)
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Michal Huszcza
For All These Sleepless Night
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Audrie Pott and Daisy Colem
For
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Laura Albert
For Author: The JT Leroy Story
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Kirsten Johnson
For Cameraperson
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Aisholpan Nurgaiv
For The Eagle Huntress
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Samuela Pucillo
For Fire at Sea
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Steve Gleason and Michel Varisco
For Gleason
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Ye Haiyan
For Hooligan Sparrow
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Kate Shiel
For Kate Plays Christine
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Owen Suskind
For Life, Animated
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Sharon Jones
For Miss Sharon Jones!
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Peter Dunning
For Peter and the Farm
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Princess Shaw
For Presenting Princess Shaw
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Sonita Alidazeh
For Sonita
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Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner
For Weiner