Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film
The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Winners
[edit]1980s
[edit]| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On? | Ross McElwee |
| 1981 | Diaries | |
| 1982 | The Atomic Cafe | Jayne Loader and Kevin Rafferty |
| 1983 | Say Amen, Somebody | George T. Nierenberg |
| 1984 | The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein |
| 1985 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann |
| 1986 | Mother Teresa | Ann Petrie and Jeanette Petrie |
| 1987 | Marlene | Maximilian Schell |
| 1988 | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris |
| 1989 | Let's Get Lost | Bruce Weber |
1990s
[edit]| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | No information | |
| 1991 | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston |
| 1992 | No information | |
| 1993 | Visions of Light | Arnold Glassman and Todd McCarthy |
| 1994 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James |
| 1995 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff |
| 1996 | Anne Frank Remembered | Jon Blair |
| 1997 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris |
| 1998 | The Big One | Michael Moore |
| 1999 | Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary | S.R. Bindler |
2000s
[edit]| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato |
| 2001 | The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse) | Agnès Varda |
| 2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen |
| 2003 | Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki |
| 2004 | Control Room[2] | Jehane Noujaim |
| 2005 | Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro |
| 2006 | Deliver Us from Evil | Amy Berg |
| Shut Up & Sing | Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck | |
| 2007 | Crazy Love | Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens |
| 2008 | Man on Wire | James Marsh |
| 2009 | The Cove | Louie Psihoyos |
2010s
[edit]| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Marwencol | Jeff Malmberg |
| 2011 | Project Nim[3] | James Marsh |
| 2012 | How to Survive a Plague | David France |
| 2013 | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
| 2015 | Amy[4] | Asif Kapadia |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman |
| 2017 | Dawson City: Frozen Time | Bill Morrison |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville |
| 2019 | Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov |
2020s
[edit]| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Collective[5] | Alexander Nanau |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul[6] | Questlove |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras |
Multiple winners
[edit]- James Marsh - 2
- Errol Morris - 2
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BSFC Winners: 1980s". Boston Society of Film Critics. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
- ^ Boston film critics flip for 'Sideways' - Variety
- ^ 'The Artist' Named Best Picture by Boston Film Critics|Retuters
- ^ L.A., Boston film critics name "Spotlight" year's best - CBS News
- ^ The Boston Society of Film Critics names its winners for 2020 - The Boston Globe
- ^ Current Winners — 2021 Awards — Boston Society of Film Critics