Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary

Critics’ Choice Award for Best Music Documentary
Critics’ Choice Award for Best Music Documentary
Awarded for	Best music documentary
Country	United States
Presented by	Critics Choice Association
First award	2016

The Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary is an accolade presented annually by the Critics Choice Association (CCA) as part of the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. Established in 2016, the award honors exceptional achievement in music-related documentary filmmaking. It is one of the categories recognizing outstanding documentaries released theatrically, on television, or across streaming platforms. The Critics Choice Documentary Awards themselves were launched in 2016.^[1]

Awarded forBest music documentary

CountryUnited States

Presented byCritics Choice Association

First award2016

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Year	Director(s)	Film	Ref.
2016 (1st)	Ron Howard	The Beatles: Eight Days a Week	^[2]
	Jim Jarmusch	Gimme Danger
	Morgan Neville	Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
	Barbara Kopple	Miss Sharon Jones!
	Stephen Kijak	We Are X
	Ido Haar	Presenting Princess Shaw
2017 (2nd)	Chris Perkel	Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives	^[3]
	Amir Bar-Lev	Long Strange Trip
	Kasper Collin	I Called Him Morgan
	Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV	Contemporary Color
	Colin Hanks	Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)
	Catherine Bainbridge	Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2018 (3rd)	Alan Hicks Rashida Jones	Quincy	^[4]
	Kevin Macdonald	Whitney
	Francis Whately	David Bowie: The Last Five Years
	Kevin Kerslake	Bad Reputation
	Thom Zimny	Elvis Presley: The Searcher
	Stephen Nomura Schible	Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
	Stephen Kijak	If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd
2019 (4th)	Rob Epstein Jeffrey Friedman	Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice	^[5]
	Alan Elliott Sydney Pollack	Amazing Grace
	Martin Scorsese	Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
	A. J. Eaton	David Crosby: Remember My Name
	Stanley Nelson Jr.	Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
	Ron Howard	Pavarotti
	Bruce Springsteen Thom Zimny	Western Stars

Year	Director(s)	Film	Ref.
2020 (5th)	Spike Jonze	Beastie Boys Story	^[6]
	Alison Ellwood	The Go-Go's
	Julien Temple	Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
	Lisa Cholodenko	Laurel Canyon
	Daniel Roher	Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
	Alex Winter	Zappa
	Puloma Basu Rob Hatch-Miller	Other Music
2021 (6th)	Questlove	Summer of Soul	^[7]
	R. J. Cutler	Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
	Todd Haynes	The Velvet Underground
	Edgar Wright	The Sparks Brothers
	Daniel Lindsay T. J. Martin	Tina
	Penny Lane	Listening to Kenny G
	Sacha Jenkins	Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
2022 (7th)	Peter Jackson	The Beatles: Get Back	^[8]
	Brett Morgen	Moonage Daydream
	Daniel Geller Dayna Goldfine	Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
	Sacha Jenkins	Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
	Kathryn Ferguson	Nothing Compares
	Mary McCartney	If These Walls Could Sing
	Kathlyn Horan	The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
2023 (8th)	Matthew Heineman	American Symphony	^[9]
	Sam Wrench	Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
	Lisa Cortés	Little Richard: I Am Everything
	John Scheinfeld	What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
	Rudy Valdez	Carlos
	Hannah Beachler Dream Hampton Raeshem Nijhon Giselle Bailey Carri Twig	Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
	Roger Ross Williams Brooklyn Sudano	Love to Love You, Donna Summer
2024 (9th)	Laurent Bouzereau	Music by John Williams	^[10]
	Bao Nguyen	The Greatest Night in Pop
	Irene Taylor	I Am: Celine Dion
	Morgan Neville	Piece by Piece
	Thom Zimny	Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
	Johan Grimonprez	Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2025 (10th)	Bernard MacMahon	Becoming Led Zeppelin	^[11]
	Questlove	Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
	Amy J. Berg	It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
	Susan Lacy Jessica Levin	Billy Joel: And So It Goes
	Andrew Dominik	Bono: Stories of Surrender
	Questlove Oz Rodriguez	Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

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