2026

Nominees

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• Afternoons of Solitude
• Cover-Up
• The Perfect Neighbor
• Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk
• Seeds

Nominees

• Mstyslav ChernovFor 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• Albert SerraFor Afternoons of Solitude
• Ryan WhiteFor Come See Me in the Good Light
• Laura Poitras & Mark ObenhausFor Cover-Up
• David OsitFor Predators
• Brittany ShyneFor Seeds

Nominees

• Shoshannah SternFor Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
• Billy Shebar & David C. RobertsFor Monk in Pieces
• Paige BethmannFor Remaining Native
• Max KeeganFor The Shepherd and the Bear
• Isaac Gale & Ryan OlsonFor Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

Nominees

• Apocalypse in the Tropics
• Coexistence, My Ass!
• Come See Me in the Good Light
• The Eyes of Ghana
• It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
• The Librarians
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin
• Prime Minister

Longlist

• Cover-Up
• Cutting Through Rocks
• Deaf President Now!
• Folktales
• Orwell: 2+2=5
• The Perfect Neighbor

Nominees

• Artur TortFor Afternoons of Solitude
• Ben BernhardFor Architecton
• Brandon SomerhalderFor Come See Me in the Good Light
• Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo & Tor Edvin EliassenFor Folktales
• Jean DakarFor The Tale of Silyan

Nominees

• Michelle MiznerFor 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• Amy Foote, Laura Poitras & Peter BowmanFor Cover-Up
• Alexander KashcheevFor I Am Not Everything I Want to Be
• Julia Loktev & Michael TaylorFor My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
• Alexandra StraussFor Orwell: 2+2=5
• Alfredo Castro, Olaf Voigtländer & Stephan KrumbiegelFor Riefenstahl

Nominees

• Sam SlaterFor 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• Maya ShenfeldFor Cover-Up
• Kris BowersFor The Eyes of Ghana
• T. GriffinFor Folktales
• Alexeï AïguiFor Orwell: 2+2=5

Nominees

• Michelle Mizner, Mstyslav Chernov & Raney Aronson-RathFor 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• David Moulton & James JonesFor Antidote
• Helle FaberFor Mr. Nobody Against Putin
• Julia LoktevFor My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow

Nominees

• Alexander DudarevFor Architecton
• Andreas Lindberg Svensson & Lew GoldsteinFor Folktales
• Bonnie WildFor Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
• Paul Hicks, Sam Gannon & Sean Ono LennonFor One to One: John and Yoko
• Ben Kruse & Daniel TimmonsFor Seeds

Nominees

• David Offner, Rodney Ascher & Syd GaronFor Ghost Boy
• Gergely Wootsch, Jon Shenk & Marcus ArmitageFor In Waves and War
• Norn JordanFor The New Yorker at 100
• Joseph MidthunFor Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
• Charlie Shackleton & Teddy BlanksFor Zodiac Killer Project

Nominees

• Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
• The Devil is Busy
• Mama Micra
• perfectly a strangeness
• We Were The Scenery

Shorts List

• Am I the skinniest person you’ve ever seen?
• Crying Glacier
• The Long Valley
• Who Loves The Sun

Nominees

• Chimp Crazy
• Couples Therapy
• Dallas, 2019
• The Sing Sing Chronicles
• The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth

Nominees

• Harlem Ice
• Omnivore
• Our Oceans
• SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
• Tucci In Italy

Nominees

• Deaf President Now!
• Democracy Noir
• Enigma
• My Mom Jayne
• Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Nominees

• Will BasantaFor Chef’s Table: Legends
• Christine Kapo NgFor Dallas, 2019
• Steve LidgerwoodFor No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
• Roger Munns, Roger Horrocks, Justin Maguire, Ryan Tidman & Jamie McPhersonFor Our Oceans
• Bryan Donnell, Jenna Rosher & Jerry RisiusFor Social Studies

Nominees

• Michael HarteFor Deaf President Now!
• JD MarlowFor My Mom Jayne
• Damian RodriguezFor Pee-wee as Himself
• Joshua L. PearsonFor Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
• Andy GrieveFor WISE GUY David Chase and The Sopranos

Nominees

• Always
• The Encampments
• Flophouse America
• Sanatorium

Nominees

• BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions
• East of Wall
• Peter Hujar’s Day
• The Rehearsal Season 2
• To a Land Unknown

Honorees

• Burden of Dreams
• Portrait of Jason
• Sans Soleil
• Tongues Untied

Honorees

• Noam Shuster-Eliassiin Coexistence, My Ass!
• Andrea Gibsonin Come See Me in the Good Light
• Megan Falleyin Come See Me in the Good Light
• Seymour Hershin Cover-Up
• Sara Shahverdiin Cutting Through Rocks
• Pavel Talankinin Mr. Nobody Against Putin
• Jacinda Ardernin Prime Minister
• Fatma Hassonain Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk

Honoree

• Janus Billeskov Jansen