Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary explained

Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary
Presenter:	The Gotham Film & Media Institute
Country:	United States
Year:	2004
Holder:	Four Daughters (2023)

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. It was first presented in 2004 with Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist being the first recipient of the award.^[1]

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2004	The Agronomist	Jonathan Demme	^[2]
	Bright Leaves	Ross McElwee
	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore
	In the Realms of the Unreal	Jessica Yu
	Tarnation	Jonathan Caouette
2005	Murderball	Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro	^[3]
	Ballets Russes	Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller
		Alex Gibney
	Grizzly Man	Werner Herzog
	William Eggleston in the Real World	Michael Almereyda
2006	Iraq in Fragments	James Longley	^[4]
	Deliver Us from Evil	Amy J. Berg
	Following Sean	Ralph Arlyck
	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim
		Stanley Nelson
2007	Sicko	Michael Moore	^[5]
	The Devil Came on Horseback	Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
	Man from Plains	Jonathan Demme
	My Kid Could Paint That	Amir Bar-Lev
	Taxi to the Dark Side	Alex Gibney
2008	Trouble the Water	Tia Lessin and Carl Deal	^[6]
	Chris & Don. A Love Story	Guido Santi and Tina Mascara
	Encounters at the End of the World	Werner Herzog
	Man on Wire	James Marsh
		Marina Zenovich
2009	Food, Inc.	Robert Kenner	^[7]
	Good Hair	Jeff Stilson
	My Neighbor, My Killer	Anne Aghion
	Paradise	Michael Almereyda
	Tyson	James Toback

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2010	The Oath	Laura Poitras	^[8]
	12th & Delaware	Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
	Inside Job	Charles Ferguson
	Public Speaking	Martin Scorsese
	Sweetgrass	Lucien Castaing-Taylor
2011	Better This World	Kelly Duane and Katie Galloway	^[9]
	Bill Cunningham New York	Richard Press
	Hell and Back Again	Danfung Dennis
	The Interrupters	Steve James
	The Woodmans	Scott Willis
2012	How to Survive a Plague	David France	^[10] ^[11]
	Detropia	Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
	Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present	Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre
	Room 237	Rodney Ascher
	The Waiting Room	Peter Nicks
2013	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer	^[12]
	The Crash Reel	Lucy Walker
	First Cousin Once Removed	Alan Berliner
	Let the Fire Burn	Jason Osder
	Our Nixon	Penny Lane
2014	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras	^[13]
	Actress	Robert Greene
	Life Itself	Steve James
	Manakamana	Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
	Point and Shoot	Marshall Curry
2015	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer	^[14]
	Approaching the Elephant	Amanda Wilder
	Cartel Land	Matthew Heineman
	Heart of a Dog	Laurie Anderson
	Listen to Me Marlon	Stevan Riley
2016		Ezra Edelman	^[15]
	Cameraperson	Kirsten Johnson
	I Am Not Your Negro	Raoul Peck
	Tower	Keith Maitland
	Weiner	Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
2017	Strong Island	Yance Ford	^[16]
		Frederick Wiseman
	Rat Film	Theo Anthony
	Whose Streets?	Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
	The Work	Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
2018	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	RaMell Ross	^[17]
Bisbee '17	Robert Greene
Minding the Gap	Bing Liu
Shirkers	Sandi Tan
Won't You Be My Neighbor?	Morgan Neville
	American Factory	Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert	^[18]
Apollo 11	Todd Douglas Miller
The Edge of Democracy	Petra Costa
Midnight Traveler	Hassan Fazili
One Child Nation	Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2020	A Thousand Cuts	Ramona Diaz	^[19] ^[20]
	Time	Garrett Bradley
	76 Days	Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
	City Hall	Frederick Wiseman
	Our Time Machine	Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang
2021	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	^[21] ^[22]
	Ascension	Jessica Kingdon
	Faya Dayi	Jessica Beshir
	President	Camilla Nielsson
	Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)	Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
2022	All That Breathes	Shaunak Sen	^[23]
	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed	Laura Poitras
	I Didn't See You There	Reid Davenport
	The Territory	Alex Pritz
	What We Leave Behind	Iliana Sosa
2023	Four Daughters	Kaouther Ben Hania	^[24]
	20 Days in Mariupol	Mstyslav Chernov
	Against the Tide	Sarvnik Kaur
	Apolonia, Apolonia	Lea Glob
	Our Body	Claire Simon

See also

• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature

Notes and References

1. Web site: Past Recipients . IFP Gotham Awards . April 16, 2021.
2. Web site: 2004 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219132210/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2004.html. February 19, 2017. dead.
3. Web site: 2005 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219125955/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2005.html. February 19, 2017. dead.
4. Web site: 2006 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219100430/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2006.html. February 19, 2017. dead.
5. Web site: 2007 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160802160948/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2007.html. August 2, 2016.
6. Web site: 2008 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219095551/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2008.html. February 19, 2017. dead.
7. Web site: 2009 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20160505004648/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2009.html. May 5, 2016. dead.
8. Web site: 2010 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219094437/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2010.html. February 19, 2017. dead.
9. Web site: 2011 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20160325145754/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/index.html. March 25, 2016. dead.
10. News: Zakarin. Jordan. Gotham Awards: Moonrise Kingdom Wins Best Feature. January 1, 2018. The Hollywood Reporter. November 26, 2012.
11. Web site: Peter. Knegt. Gotham Awards Announce 2012 Nominations. October 18, 2012. IndieWire. January 1, 2018.
12. News: Inside Llewyn Davis Tops Gotham Awards. January 1, 2018. The Hollywood Reporter. December 2, 2013.
13. News: 2014 Gotham Awards: Complete Winners List. January 1, 2018. The Hollywood Reporter. December 1, 2014.
14. News: Cox. Gordon. Spotlight Wins Big at 2015 Gotham Awards (Full List). January 1, 2018. Variety. November 30, 2015.
15. Web site: Erbland. Kate. Gotham Awards 2016: Complete Winners List. IndieWire. January 1, 2018. November 28, 2016.
16. Web site: Erbland. Kate. Gotham Awards 2017: Complete Winners List. IndieWire. January 1, 2018. November 27, 2017.
17. News: Wagmeister . Elizabeth . Gotham Awards: A24 Sweeps with Five Wins, Including First Reformed, Eighth Grade (Full Winners List) . November 27, 2018 . . November 26, 2018.
18. News: Marriage Story Sweeps Gotham Awards; Full Winners List . December 3, 2019 . The Hollywood Reporter . December 2, 2019.
19. News: Lewis . Hilary . Gotham Awards: Nomadland Wins Best Feature, Audience Award . January 11, 2021 . The Hollywood Reporter . January 11, 2021.
20. Web site: Nominations Announced for 30th IFP Gotham Awards . Independent Filmmaker Project . November 16, 2020 . November 12, 2020 . December 8, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201208153602/https://www.ifp.org/press/nominations-announced-for-30th-ifp-gotham-awards/ . dead .
21. News: Lattanzio . Ryan . Gotham Awards: The Lost Daughter Wins Top Prize — See the Full List of Winners . November 30, 2021 . IndieWire . November 30, 2021.
22. News: Lewis . Hilary . Gotham Awards: The Lost Daughter, Passing Lead Nominations . October 21, 2021 . The Hollywood Reporter . October 21, 2021.
23. Web site: Zilko . Christian . Everything Everywhere All at Once Takes Best Feature at the 2022 Gotham Awards (Complete Winners List) . IndieWire . November 29, 2022 . November 28, 2022.
24. News: Lewis . Hilary . Chuba . Kirsten . 2023 Gotham Awards: Past Lives Wins Best Feature . November 29, 2023 . The Hollywood Reporter . November 27, 2023.