Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary
The winners of the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary.
winner
1980s
| year | Movie | Winner) |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Kidneyberg |
| 1984 | The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein |
| 1985 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann |
| 1986 | Mother Teresa | Ann and Jeanette Petrie |
| 1987 | Marlene | Maximilian Schell |
| 1988 | The Case of Randall Adams (The Thin Blue Line) | Errol Morris |
| 1989 | Let's get lost | Bruce Weber |
1990s
| year | Movie | Winner) |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ? | ? |
| 1991 | Paris is Burning | Jennie Livingston |
| 1992 | Brother's Keeper | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| 1993 | Visions of Light | Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels |
| 1994 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James |
| 1995 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff |
| 1996 | Anne Frank - contemporary witnesses remember | Jon Blair |
| 1997 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris |
| 1998 | The great maker | Michael Moore |
| 1999 | Hands on a Hard Body The Documentary | SR Bindler |
2000s
| year | Movie | Winner) |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey |
| 2001 | The collector (Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse) | Agnes Varda |
| 2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen |
| 2003 | Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki |
| 2004 | Control room | Jehane Noujaim |
| 2005 | Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro |
| 2006 | Deliver Us from Evil ; Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing | Amy Berg ; Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck |
| 2007 | Crazy Love | Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens |
| 2008 | Man on Wire | James Marsh |
| 2009 | The Bay | Louie Psihoyos |
2010s
| year | Movie | Winner) |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Marwencol | Jeff Malmberg |
| 2011 | Project Nim | James Marsh |
| 2012 | How to Survive a Plague | David France |
| 2013 | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
| 2015 | Amy | Asif Kapadia |
| 2016 | OJ Simpson: Made in America | Ezra Edelman |
| 2017 | Dawson City: Frozen Time | Bill Morrison |