Visual Design

Nominees

• Will Hodgson For 14th
• Philip Eddolls, Michael Enzbrunner & Aisha Ghali For The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
• Mohammad Lotfali For A Fox Under a Pink Moon
• Anthony Konigbagbe, Yibi Hu & Daisy Evans For Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Musk
• Lucy Munger For Time and Water

Honoree · 2026

Josh Shaffner, Kevin Eskew & Sara Gunnarsdóttir

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Nominees

• David Offner, Rodney Ascher & Syd Garon For Ghost Boy
• Gergely Wootsch, Jon Shenk & Marcus Armitage For In Waves and War
• Norn Jordan For The New Yorker at 100
• Joseph Midthun For Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
• Charlie Shackleton & Teddy Blanks For Zodiac Killer Project

Honoree · 2025

Brendan Dawes

Eno

Nominees

• Renata Galindo & Sofía Inés Cázares For Frida
• Howard Baker For Piece by Piece
• BluBlu Studios & Brendan Bellomo For Porcelain War
• Agniia Galdanova For Queendom
• Ada Wikdahl & Rasmus Tukia For The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Nominees

• Melissa McClung For The Arc of Oblivion
• Jason Carpenter & Holly Stone For The Mission
• Hyung Cho & Helen Niu For Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV
• Javier Mariscal, Marcello Quintanillha & Carlos León For They Shot the Piano Player

Honoree · 2023

Lucy Munger, Kara Blake & Rui Ting Ji

Fire of Love

Honoree · 2023

Stefan Nadelman

Moonage Daydream

Nominees

• Gary Walker, John Mark Lapham & Sam Klatt For Dear Mr. Brody
• Hectah Arias For Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
• Rory Lowe & Scott Morriss For My Old School

Honoree · 2022

Kenneth Ladekjær & Jess Nicholls

Flee

Nominees

• Matthew Brunson-Cline & Daniel Rutledge For Becoming Cousteau
• Una Lorenzen & Emma Berliner For Rebel Hearts
• Joseph Wallace & Greg McLeod For The Sparks Brothers
• Grant Nellessen & Andrew Rose For Wojnarowicz: F*ck You F*ggot F*cker

Honoree · 2021

Jenna Caravello & Arthur Jones

Feels Good Man

Nominees

• Alexandra Gilwit & Zachary Ludescher For Coded Bias
• Jeremy Landman For My Psychedelic Love Story
• Andy Cahill For Slay the Dragon
• Simon Barker, Matthew Poliquin, Matt Schultz & Shawna Schultz For The Social Dilemma

Honoree · 2020

Ash Thorp, Matthew Hornick & Patrick Cederberg

The Great Hack

Nominees

• Melinda Gorham For Gay Chorus Deep South
• Hazel Baird For The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
• Brian Kinley, Ben Luce & Jordan Domont For Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
• Ryan Wehner For Our Time Machine

Honoree · 2019

Lucas Celler

Shirkers

Nominees

• Syd Garon, Anton Goddard & Chris Kirk For Bathtubs Over Broadway
• Toby Cornish For Beuys
• Patrick Mate For Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
• Shofela Coker For Liyana
• Ariel Costa & Rodrigo Miguel Rangel For Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Honoree · 2018

Stefan Nadelman

Long Strange Trip

Nominees

• James Duree & Chad Herschberger For 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
• Matt Schultz & Shawna Schultz For Chasing Coral
• Grant Nellessen For Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
• Daniel Gies & Emily Paige For Let There Be Light

Honoree · 2017

Craig Staggs & Keith Maitland

Tower

Nominees

• Ana Gomez Bernaus, Syd Garon & Christopher Kirk For Author: The JT Leroy Story
• Philippe Sonrier & Brian Bowman For Life, Animated
• James Belfer & Daniel Shepard For Nuts!
• Marc Smith, Alexander Porter & Nick Gibney For Zero Days

Nominees

• Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
• Laurie Anderson For Heart of a Dog
• Syd Garon For The Nightmare
• Ryan Green & Josh Larson For Thank You for Playing

Honoree · 2015

Heather Brantman & Tim Fisher

Particle Fever

Nominees

• Kyle McKeveny & Matt St. Leger For Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
• Philippe Gariepy & Benoit St. Jean For Red Army
• Steven Do For The Unknown Known

Honoree · 2014

Art Jail & Noriko Shinohara

Cutie and the Boxer

Nominees

• Rick Cikowski & Brandon Dumlao For Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
• Brandon Blommaert & Fred Casia For The Fruit Hunters
• Brian Oakes For Inequality for All
• Margot Tsakiri-Scanatovits & Daniel Chester For Maidentrip
• Maryanne Butler & Marc Smith For We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Honoree · 2013

Oskar Gullstrand & Arvid Steen

Searching for Sugar Man

Nominees

• Neil Berkeley & Anthony Maiuri For Beauty Is Embarrassing
• Nicolas Brault & Tom Hillman For Herman’s House
• James Swirsky For Indie Game: The Movie
• Carlos Ramos For Room 237
• Brooklyn Digital Foundry For Urbanized

Honoree · 2012

Rob Feng & Jeremy Landman

Tabloid

Nominees

• Justin Barber & Ryland Jones For !Women Art Revolution
• Mike Nicholson & Allison Moore For Better This World
• Brent Green For Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
• Kinda Akash For Project Nim
• Raynor Pettge For Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

Honoree · 2011

Juan Cardarelli & Alex Tyson

Gasland

Nominees

• Paul Thomas & Matt Harlock For American: The Bill Hicks Story
• Josh Norton & Alex Krawitz For Inside Job
• Rob Chiu For The Invention of Dr. Nakamats
• Martin Hultman For Videocracy

Honoree · 2010

Bigstar

Food, Inc.

Nominees

• Christophe Vallaux For The Beaches of Agnès
• Kate Anderson For It Might Get Loud
• Patrick Lichty For The Yes Men Fix the World

Honoree · 2009

Yoni Goodman & David Polonsky

Waltz with Bashir

Nominees

• Adina Sales For American Teen
• Brian Oakes For I.O.U.S.A.
• Andy Smetanka For My Winnipeg
• Lasse Järvi For Surfwise
• Lewis Kofsky For Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Nominees

• Trollbäck + Company For Helvetica
• Petra Epperlein For The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
• David Quesnelle For Super Amigos
• Jef Sewell For The Unforeseen