2016

Nominees

• Amy
• Cartel Land
• Democrats
• Listen to Me Marlon
• The Wolfpack

Nominees

• Matthew HeinemanFor Cartel Land
• Kim LonginottoFor Dreamcatcher
• Laurie AndersonFor Heart of a Dog
• Frederick WIsemanFor In Jackson Heights
• Albert Maysles, Ben Wu, David Usui, Lynn True & Nelson Walker IIIFor In Transit

Nominees

• Betzabé GarcíaFor Kings of Nowhere
• Brad Barber & Scott ChristophersonFor Peace Officer
• Frida Barkfors & Lasse BarkforsFor Pervert Park
• Chad GraciaFor The Russian Woodpecker
• Anna Sandilands & Ewan McNicolFor Uncertain

Nominees

• Amy
• Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal
• Cobain: Montage of Heck
• Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
• The Hunting Ground
• Iris
• What Happened, Miss Simone?
• Where to Invade Next
• The Wolfpack

Nominees

• Lars SkreeFor The Look of Silence
• Ewan McNicolFor Uncertain
• Bill Ross & Turner RossFor Western

Nominees

• Aaron Wickenden & Eileen MeyerFor Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal
• Brett Morgen & Joe BeshenkovskyFor Cobain: Montage of Heck
• James ScottFor How to Change the World
• Stevan RileyFor Listen to Me Marlon

Nominees

• Jackson Greenberg & Scott SalinasFor Cartel Land
• J. RalphFor Meru
• Jonathan SnipesFor The Nightmare
• Casey McAllisterFor Western

Nominees

• Matthew Heineman & Tom YellinFor Cartel Land
• Henrik VeileborgFor Democrats
• Alex Gibney, Kristen Vaurio, Lawrence Wright, Sara Bernstein & Sheila NevinsFor Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
• Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin & Shannon EthridgeFor Meru

Nominees

• Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
• Laurie AndersonFor Heart of a Dog
• Syd GaronFor The Nightmare
• Ryan Green & Josh LarsonFor Thank You for Playing

Nominees

• The Breath
• Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
• The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul

Shorts List

• Body Team 12
• Born to Be Mild
• The Solitude of Memory
• Super-Unit
• {The And} Marcela & Rock

Nominees

• Deep Web
• Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
• Outbreak
• Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger

Nominees

• (T)eror
• Almost There
• Barge
• Field Niggas
• Frame by Frame

Nominees

• Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One
• God Bless the Child
• Tangerine
• The Tribe

Honoree

• American Movie

Honorees

• Saeed ‘Shariff’ Torresin (T)eror
• Peter Antonin Almost There
• Amy Winehousein Amy
• Lizzie Velasquezin A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
• José Manuel ‘El Doctor’ Mirelesin Cartel Land
• Paul Mangwanain Democrats
• Brenda Myers-Powellin Dreamcatcher
• Shannon Whisnantin Finders Keepers
• Iris Apfelin Iris
• Adi Rukunin The Look of Silence
• William ‘Dub’ Lawrencein Peace Officer
• Fedor Alexandrovichin The Russian Woodpecker
• Seymour Bernsteinin Seymour: An Introduction
• Yulain Something Better to Come
• The Angulo Brothersin The Wolfpack