Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director

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.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Director	Film
2016 (1st)	'	O.J.: Made in America
2016 (1st)		The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
2016 (1st)		Cameraperson
2016 (1st)		Tower
2016 (1st)		Gleason
2016 (1st)		Life, Animated
2017 (2nd)	'	Cries from Syria
2017 (2nd)	'	Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017 (2nd)		Long Strange Trip
2017 (2nd)		City of Ghosts
2017 (2nd)		Dawson City: Frozen Time
2017 (2nd)		California Typewriter
2017 (2nd)		Chasing Coral
2017 (2nd)		Beware the Slenderman
2017 (2nd)		Kedi
2017 (2nd)	and JR	Faces Places
2018 (3rd)	'	Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018 (3rd)	and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi	Free Solo
2018 (3rd)		Minding the Gap
2018 (3rd)		Dark Money
2018 (3rd)		Hitler's Hollywood
2018 (3rd)		Three Identical Strangers
2019 (4th)	'	They Shall Not Grow Old
2019 (4th)	and Julia Reichert	American Factory
2019 (4th)	and Edward Watts	For Sama
2019 (4th)		The Biggest Little Farm
2019 (4th)		The Cave
2019 (4th)		Apollo 11
2019' (4th)	and Jialing Zhang	One Child Nation

2020s

Year	Director	Film
2020 (5th)	'	Dick Johnson Is Dead
2020 (5th)		Time
2020 (5th)	and Jon Shenk	Athlete A
2020 (5th)		Gunda
2020 (5th)	and Nicole Newnham	Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
2020 (5th)		John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 (5th)		The Painter and the Thief
2021 (6th)	and Jimmy Chin	The Rescue
2021 (6th)	'	Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 (6th)		Becoming Cousteau
2021 (6th)		Ascension
2021 (6th)	and Traci A. Curry	Attica
2021 (6th)		Flee
2021 (6th)		The Sparks Brothers
2022 (7th)	'	Good Night Oppy
2022 (7th)	and Michael Bonfiglio	George Carlin's American Dream
2022 (7th)		Descendant
2022 (7th)		Fire of Love
2022 (7th)		Sidney
2022 (7th)		Moonage Daydream
2022 (7th)		All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022 (7th)		Navalny
2023 (8th)	'	Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023 (8th)		The Eternal Memory
2023 (8th)	Madeleine Gavin	Beyond Utopia
2023 (8th)		American Symphony
2023 (8th)		The Mission
2023 (8th)		Occupied City
2024 (9th)	Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui	Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024 (9th)		Will & Harper
2024 (9th)		Jim Henson Idea Man
2024 (9th)	and	Sugarcane
2024 (9th)	Natalie Rae and	Daughters
2024 (9th)		The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
2025	Geeta Gandbhir	The Perfect Neighbor
2025	Mstyslav Chernov	2000 Meters to Andriivka
2025	Petra Costa	Apocalypse in the Tropics
2025	Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim	Deaf President Now!
2025	Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman	The Alabama Solution
2025	Raoul Peck	Orwell: 2+2=5