Sundance Film Festival / Audience Award - Best Documentary

2016 Award Winner: Brian Oakes

With the Audience Award ( Audience Award: US Documentary ) when held annually is the Sundance Film Festival the best US documentary prize (including co-productions) from the perspective of the audience.

The prize has been awarded since the sixth edition of the film festival in 1989. So far, five times the winner has agreed with the eventual winner of the Grand Prize of the jury .

year	Award winners	German title	Director
1989	For All Mankind *	For All Mankind - A big step for humanity	Al Reinert
1990	Berkeley in the Sixties	Berkeley in the Sixties - The Birth of the '68 Movement	Mark Kitchell
1991	American Dream *	American Dream	Barbara Kopple
1992	Brother's Keeper	My brother's keeper	Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky
1993	Something Within Me	not known	Emma Joan Morris
1994	Hoop Dreams	Hoop Dreams	Steve James
1995	Ballot Measure 9	not known	Heather MacDonald
	Unzipped	Unzipped	Douglas Keeve
1996	The American Experience * / Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Troublesome Creek - A different kind of western	Jeanne Jordan Steven Ascher
1997	Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End	not known	Monte Bramer
1998	Out of the past	not known	Jeff Dupre
1999	Genghis blues	Genghis blues	Roco Belic
2000	Dark Days	not known	Marc Singer
2001	Dogtown and Z-Boys	Dogtown and Z-Boys	Stacy Peralta
	Scout's Honor	not known	Tom Shepard
2002	AMANDLA! a revolution in four part harmony	not known	Lee Hirsch
2003	My Flesh and Blood	not known	Jonathan Karsh
2004	Born into Brothels	Born in a brothel - children in Calcutta's red light district	Ross Kauffman Zana Briski
2005	Murderball	Murderball	Dana Adam Shapiro Henry Alex Rubin
2006	God Grew Tired of Us *	not known	Christopher Quinn
2007	Hear and Now	not known	Irene Taylor Brodsky
2008	Fields of Fuel	not known	Josh Tickell
2009	The Cove	The Bay	Louie Psihoyos
2010	Waiting for Superman	not known	Davis Guggenheim
2011	Buck	Buck	Cindy Meehl
2012	The Invisible War	The Invisible War	Kirby Dick
2013	Blood Brother *	not known	Steve Hoover
2014	Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory	not known	Michael Rossato-Bennett
2015	Meru	not known	Jimmy Chin Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
2016	Jim: The James Foley Story	not known	Brian Oakes
2017	Chasing coral	not known	Jeff Orlowski

* = Film productions at Sundance and the Jury Grand won