Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Best Documentary

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Since 1988, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards have recognized Best Documentary .

Excellent films

Notes: In some years there was an ex-aequo result and thus two winners. Since 2004, second-placed films have also been announced by the LAFCA jury.

year Award winners German title Director / Producer
1988 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Hôtel Terminus: Time and Life of Klaus Barbie Marcel Ophüls
1989 Roger & Me Roger & Me Michael Moore
1990 Paris is Burning
Portraits of the Oldworld
Paris is Burning
Portraits of the Oldworld
Jennie Livingston
1991 American Dream American Dream Barbara Kopple
1992 Black Harvest Black Harvest Bob Connolly
Robin Anderson
1992 Hotet Threat Stefan Jarl
1993 It's All True It's All True Orson Welles
Myron Meisel
Bill Krohn
Richard Wilson
1994 Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams Steve James
Peter Gilbert
1995 Crumb Crumb Terry Zwigoff
1996 When We Were Kings When We Were Kings Leon guest
1997 Riding the rails Riding the rails Lexy Lovell
Michael Uys
1998 The Farm: Angola, USA The Farm: Angola, USA Jonathan Stack
Liz Garbus
Wilbert Rideau
1999 Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club Wim Wenders
2000 Dark Days Dark Days Marc Singer
2001 Les glaneurs et la glaneuse The collector Agnes Varda
2002 The Cockettes The Cockettes Bill Weber
David Weissman
2003 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara The Fog of War Errol Morris
2004 Born into Brothels Born in a brothel - children in Calcutta's red light district Zana Briski
Ross Kauffman
2005 Grizzly Man Grizzly Man Werner Herzog
2006 To Inconvenient Truth An uncomfortable truth Davis Guggenheim
2007 No end in sight No End In Sight - Invasion of the Amateurs? Charles H. Ferguson
2008 Man on Wire Man on Wire James Marsh
2009 The Cove The Bay Louie Psihoyos
2009 Les plages d'Agnès The beaches of Agnès Agnes Varda
2010 Last Train Home not known Lixin fan
2011 Cave of Forgotten Dreams The cave of forgotten dreams Werner Herzog
2012 The Gatekeepers Kill first Dror Moreh
2013 Stories We Tell not known Sarah Polley
2014 Citizenfour Citizenfour Laura Poitras
2015 Amy Amy Asif Kapadia
2016 I am not your negro I am not your negro Raoul Peck
2017 Visages, villages Moments: faces of a journey JR
Agnès Varda
2018 Shirkers not known Sandi Tan
2019 American Factory not known Steven Bognar
Julia Reichert

Runner-up documentaries

  1. In 2004, the film took Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore a second place
  2. ↑ In 2005, the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room by Alex Gibney took a second place
  3. ↑ In 2006 the film Darwin's Nightmare by Hubert Sauper took second place
  4. In 2007, the film took Sicko by Michael Moore a second place
  5. In 2008, the film took Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman second place
  6. 2010, the film took Exit Through the Gift Shop of Banksy second place
  7. ↑ In 2011 the film The Arbor by Clio Barnard took a second place
  8. 2012 film took Searching for Sugar Man of Malik Bendjelloul a second place
  9. ↑ In 2013 the film The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer took second place
  10. 2014, the film took Life Itself by Steve James a second place
  11. ↑ In 2015 the film The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer took second place
  12. ↑ In 2016, the film OJ Simpson: Made in America by Ezra Edelman took second place
  13. ↑ In 2017, the film Jane by Brett Morgen took second place
  14. 2018 finished the film Minding the Gap of Bing Liu second place
  15. 2019, the film took Apollo 11 by Todd Douglas Miller in second place