Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director

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The Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director is one of the awards presented annually by Critics Choice Association since the awards debuted in 2016.

2010s

Table key
  indicates the winner
 ‡ Indicates the winner of Best Documentary Feature
Ezra Edelman won the award at the inaugural ceremony for the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary O.J.: Made in America
Morgan Neville won for directing Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Peter Jackson won for They Shall Not Grow Old in 2019
Year Director(s) Film Ref.
2016
(1st)		 Ezra Edelman O.J.: Made in America‡ [1][2]
Ron Howard The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
Kirsten Johnson Cameraperson
Keith Maitland Tower
Clay Tweel Gleason
Roger Ross Williams Life, Animated
2017
(2nd)		 Evgeny Afineevsky Cries from Syria [3]
Frederick Wiseman Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Amir Bar-Lev Long Strange Trip
Matthew Heineman City of Ghosts
Bill Morrison Dawson City: Frozen Time
Doug Nichol California Typewriter
Jeff Orlowski Chasing Coral
Irene Taylor Brodsky Beware the Slenderman
Ceyda Torun Kedi
Agnès Varda and JR Faces Places
2018
(3rd)		 Morgan Neville Won't You Be My Neighbor?‡ [4][5]
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Free Solo
Bing Liu Minding the Gap
Kimberly Reed Dark Money
Rudiger Suchsland Hitler's Hollywood
Tim Wardle Three Identical Strangers
2019
(4th)		 Peter Jackson They Shall Not Grow Old [6][7]
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert American Factory
Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts For Sama
John Chester The Biggest Little Farm
Feras Fayyad The Cave
Todd Douglas Miller Apollo 11‡
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang One Child Nation

2020s

Kirsten Johnson won once from two nominations for Dick Johnson Is Dead in 2020
Questlove won in 2021 for the Harlem Cultural Festival documentary Summer of Soul
Year Director(s) Film Ref.
2020
(5th)		 Kirsten Johnson Dick Johnson Is Dead‡ [8][9]
Garrett Bradley Time
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk Athlete A
Victor Kossakovsky Gunda
James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Dawn Porter John Lewis: Good Trouble
Benjamin Ree The Painter and the Thief
2021
(6th)		 Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin The Rescue [10]
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)‡
Liz Garbus Becoming Cousteau
Jessica Kingdon Ascension
Stanley Nelson Jr. and Traci A. Curry Attica
Jonas Poher Rasmussen Flee
Edgar Wright The Sparks Brothers
2022
(7th)		 Ryan White Good Night Oppy‡ [11]
Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio George Carlin's American Dream
Margaret Brown Descendant
Sara Dosa Fire of Love
Reginald Hudlin Sidney
Brett Morgen Moonage Daydream
Laura Poitras All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Daniel Roher Navalny
2023
(8th)		 Davis Guggenheim Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie‡ [12]
Maite Alberdi The Eternal Memory
Madeleine Gavin Beyond Utopia
Matthew Heineman American Symphony
Amanda McBaine The Mission
Steve McQueen Occupied City
2024
(9th)		 Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story‡ [13][14]
Josh Greenbaum Will & Harper
Ron Howard Jim Henson Idea Man
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie Sugarcane
Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Daughters
Benjamin Ree The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
2025

(10th)

 Geeta Gandbhir The Perfect Neighbor‡ [15]
Mstyslav Chernov 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Petra Costa Apocalypse in the Tropics
Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim Deaf President Now!
Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman The Alabama Solution
Raoul Peck Orwell: 2+2=5

Multiple nominations

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