2012

Nominees

• The Arbor
• Nostalgia for the Light
• Position Among the Stars
• Project Nim
• Senna

Nominees

• Clio BarnardFor The Arbor
• Danfung DennisFor Hell and Back Again
• Patricio GuzmánFor Nostalgia for the Light
• Leonard Retel HelmrichFor Position Among the Stars

Nominees

• Michal MarczakFor At the Edge of Russia
• Alma Har’elFor Bombay Beach
• Tristan PattersonFor Dragonslayer
• Danfung DennisFor Hell and Back Again

Nominees

• Richard PressFor Bill Cunningham New York
• Göran Hugo OlssonFor The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
• Werner HerzogFor Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Michael CollinsFor Give Up Tomorrow
• Steve JamesFor The Interrupters
• Jon M. ChuFor Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
• James MarshFor Project Nim
• Asif KapadiaFor Senna
• Errol MorrisFor Tabloid

Nominees

• Alma Har’elFor Bombay Beach
• Eric KoretzFor Dragonslayer
• Katell DjianFor Nostalgia for the Light
• Leonard Retel Helmrich & Ismail Fahmi LubisFor Position Among the Stars

Nominees

• Hanna Lejonqvist & Göran Hugo OlssonFor The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
• Jennifer Tiexiera & Lizzy CalhounFor Dragonslayer
• Joe WalkerFor Life in a Day
• Jasper NaaijkensFor Position Among the Stars

Nominees

• Harry Escott & Molly NymanFor The Arbor
• Ernst ReijsegerFor Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• T. GriffinFor Dragonslayer
• Antonio PintoFor Senna

Nominees

• Erik Nelson & Adrienne CiuffoFor Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Mike LernerFor Hell and Back Again
• Steve James & Alex KotlowitzFor The Interrupters
• Renate SachseFor Nostalgia for the Light

Nominees

• Justin Barber & Ryland JonesFor !Women Art Revolution
• Mike Nicholson & Allison MooreFor Better This World
• Brent GreenFor Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
• Kinda AkashFor Project Nim
• Raynor PettgeFor Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

Nominees

• Yuri AncaraniFor Il Capo
• Davina PardoFor Minka
• Jakub StożekFor Out of Reach
• Andy Taylor SmithFor This Chair Is Not Me

Shorts List

• Frida KempffFor Bathing Micky
• János RichterFor Guanape Sur
• Ruben ÖstlundFor Incident by a Bank
• Sara NessonFor Poster Girl
• Deborah StratmanFor Ray’s Birds
• Jonas OdellFor Tussilago

Nominees

• Andris GaujaFor Family Instinct
• Don Argott & Demian FentonFor Last Days Here
• Chad FreidrichsFor The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
• Blue Hadaegh & Grover BabcockFor Scenes of a Crime

Nominees

• Iván Fund & Santiago LozaFor The Lips
• Lech MajewskiFor The Mill and the Cross
• Sergei LoznitsaFor My Joy
• Damon RussellFor Snow on tha Bluff

Honoree

• Titicut Follies

Honoree

• Joe Berlinger & Bruce SinofskyFor Paradise Lost Trilogy