The Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual award given by the International Press Academy.
Winners and nominees
1990s
2000s
| Year | Film | Director(s) |
2000 [4] | Reckless Indifference | William Gazecki |
| Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies | Hugh Munro Neely |
| Dark Days | Marc Singer |
| The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato |
| Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris |
| One Day in September | Kevin Macdonald |
2001 [5][6] | In Cane for Life (A Vida em Cana) | Jorge W. Atalla |
| Calle 54 | Fernando Trueba |
| My Voyage to Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia) | Martin Scorsese |
| Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Jan Harlan |
2002 [7] | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen |
| Biggie and Tupac | Nick Broomfield |
| Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore |
| The Cockettes | Bill Weber, David Weissman |
| Dogtown and Z-Boys | Stacy Peralta |
2003 [8] | Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Lee Hirsch |
| Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki |
| The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | Errol Morris |
| Lost in La Mancha | Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe |
| My Flesh and Blood | Jonathan Karsh |
| Stevie | Steve James |
2004 [9] | Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock |
| Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids | Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman |
| The Fuente Family: An American Dream | James Orr |
| Lightning in a Bottle | Antoine Fuqua |
| Touching the Void | Kevin Macdonald |
| Tupac: Resurrection | Lauren Lazin |
2005 [10] | Mad Hot Ballroom | Marilyn Agrelo |
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney |
| Favela Rising | Matt Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist |
| March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur) | Luc Jacquet |
| Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro |
| New York Doll | Greg Whiteley |
2006 [11][12] | Deliver Us from Evil | Amy Berg |
| An Inconvenient Truth | David Guggenheim |
| Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple | Stanley Nelson |
| Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man | Lian Lunson |
| The U.S. vs. John Lennon | David Leaf, John Scheinfeld |
| The War Tapes | Deborah Scranton |
2007 [13][14] | Sicko | Michael Moore |
| The 11th Hour | Nadia Conners, Leila Conners |
| Darfur Now | Ted Braun |
| The King of Kong | Seth Gordon |
| Lake of Fire | Tony Kaye |
| No End in Sight | Charles Ferguson |
2008 [15] | Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer | Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden |
| Man on Wire | James Marsh |
| Encounters at the End of the World | Werner Herzog |
| Pray the Devil Back to Hell | Gini Reticker |
| Religulous | Larry Charles |
| Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir) | Ari Folman |
2009 [16][17] | Every Little Step | James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo |
| The Beaches of Agnès | Agnès Varda |
| The Cove | Louie Psihoyos |
| It Might Get Loud | Davis Guggenheim |
| The September Issue | R.J. Cutler |
| Valentino: The Last Emperor | Matt Tyrnauer |
2010s
| Year | Film | Director(s) |
2010 [18] | Restrepo | Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington |
| Behind the Burly Q | Leslie Zemeckis |
| Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Alex Gibney |
| Countdown to Zero | Lucy Walker |
| A Film Unfinished | Yael Hersonski |
| Inside Job | Charles Ferguson |
| Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work | Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg |
| Sequestro | Jorge Wolney Atalla Junior |
| The Tillman Story | Amir Bar-Lev |
| Waiting for "Superman" | Davis Guggenheim |
2011 [19][20] | Senna | Asif Kapadia |
| American: The Bill Hicks Story | Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas |
| Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Werner Herzog |
| The Interrupters | Steve James |
| My Perestroika | Robin Hessman |
| One Lucky Elephant | Lisa Leeman |
| Pina | Wim Wenders |
| Project Nim | James Marsh |
| Tabloid | Errol Morris |
| Under Fire: Journalists in Combat | Martyn Burke |
2012 [21][22] | Chasing Ice | Jeff Orlowski |
| Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | Alison Klayman |
| The Central Park Five | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon |
| The Gatekeepers | Dror Moreh |
| Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present | Matthew Akers |
| The Pruitt-Igoe Myth | Chad Freidrichs |
| Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul |
| West of Memphis | Amy J. Berg |
2013 [23][24] | Blackfish | Gabriela Cowperthwaite |
| 20 Feet from Stardom | Morgan Neville |
| The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| After Tiller | Martha Shane, Lana Wilson |
| American Promise | Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson |
| Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie | Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger |
| Sound City | Dave Grohl |
| The Square | Jehane Noujaim |
| Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley |
| Tim's Vermeer | Teller |
2014 [25][26] | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
| Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq | Nancy Buirski |
| Art and Craft | Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman |
| Finding Vivian Maier | John Maloof, Charlie Siskel |
| Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | James Keach |
| Jodorowsky's Dune | Frank Pavich |
| Keep on Keepin' On | Alan Hicks |
| Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Chuck Workman |
| Red Army | Gabe Polsky |
| Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel |
2015 [27] | Amy | Asif Kapadia |
| The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| Becoming Bulletproof | Michael Barnett |
| Best of Enemies | Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville |
| Cartel Land | Matthew Heineman |
| Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Alex Gibney |
| He Named Me Malala | Davis Guggenheim |
| The Hunting Ground | Kirby Dick |
| National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Douglas Tirola |
| Where to Invade Next | Michael Moore |
2016 [28] | 13th | Ava DuVernay |
| The Beatles: Eight Days a Week | Ron Howard |
| The Eagle Huntress | Otto Bell |
| Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi |
| Gleason | Clay Tweel |
| The Ivory Game | Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson |
| Life, Animated | Roger Ross Williams |
| O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman |
| Tower | Keith Maitland |
| Zero Days | Alex Gibney |
2017 [29][30] | Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski |
| City of Ghosts | Matthew Heineman |
| Cries from Syria | Evgeny Afineevsky |
| Ex Libris: The New York Public Library | Frederick Wiseman |
| Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS | Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested |
| Human Flow | Ai Weiwei |
| Icarus | Bryan Fogel |
| Kedi | Ceyda Torun |
| Legion of Brothers | Greg Barker |
2018 [31] | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu |
| Crime + Punishment | Stephen Maing |
| Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin |
| RBG | Betsy West, Julie Cohen |
| Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle |
| Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville |
2019 [32] | 63 Up | Michael Apted |
| The Apollo | Roger Ross Williams |
| Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller |
| The Cave | Feras Fayyad |
| Citizen K | Alex Gibney |
| For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts |
| Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov |
| One Child Nation | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang |
2020s
| Year | Film | Director(s) |
2020 [33][34] | Collective | Alexander Nanau |
| Acasă, My Home | Radu Ciorniciuc |
| Circus of Books | Rachel Mason |
| Coup 53 | Rachel Mason |
| Crip Camp | Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht |
| The Dissident | Bryan Fogel |
| Gunda | Viktor Kossakovsky |
| MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard |
| A Most Beautiful Thing | Mary Mazzio |
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw |
2021 [35] | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Amir "Questlove" Thompson |
| Ascension | Jessica Kingdon |
| Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road | Brent Wilson |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen |
| Introducing, Selma Blair | Rachel Fleit |
| Julia | Julie Cohen and Betsy West |
| Procession | Robert Greene |
| The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin |
| Val | Leo Scott and Ting Poo |
| The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes |
2022 [36] | Fire of Love | Sara Dosa |
| All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen |
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras |
| Descendant | Margaret Brown |
| Good Night Oppy | Ryan White |
| Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen |
| The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile | Kathlyn Horan |
| The Territory | Alex Pritz |
| Young Plato | Declan McGrath, Neasa Ní Chianáin |
2023 [37][38] | Bad Press | Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler |
| 20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov |
| American Symphony | Matthew Heineman |
| Close to Vermeer | Suzanne Raes |
| Lakota Nation vs. United States | Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli |
| Little Richard: I Am Everything | Lisa Cortés |
| Love to Love You, Donna Summer | Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano |
| Stamped from the Beginning | Roger Ross Williams |
2024 [39] | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui |
| The Bloody Hundredth | Laurent Bouzereau and Mark Herzog |
| Dahomey | Mati Diop |
| Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes | Nanette Burstein |
| I Am: Celine Dion | Irene Taylor |
| No Other Land | Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor |
| Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev |
| Sugarcane | Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie |
Multiple wins
See also
References
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