Prestasi Penyutradaraan Menakjubkan dalam Dokumenter (Directors Guild of America Award) telah dianugerahi sejak 1991.
Pemenang dan nominee
1990an
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1991:
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American Dream
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- Albert Maysles –
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1992:
dan
Bruce J. Sinofsky
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1993:
–
- –
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1994:
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Hoop Dreams
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1995:
–
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- – Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
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1996:
Al Pacino
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- – Paradise Lost
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1997:
dan
–
- –
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1998:
,
dan
–
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- Susan Lacy –
- Nigel Noble –
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1999:
and
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- Errol Morris –
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2000an
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2000:
–
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- –
- –
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2001:
dan
Jehane Noujaim
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- dan –
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2002:
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The Smith Family
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- dan –
- dan –
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2003:
–
- and –
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- Errol Morris –
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2004:
Byambasuren Davaa
dan
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Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The Story of the Weeping Camel)
- dan –
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- Michael Moore – Fahrenheit 9/11
- Jehane Noujaim –
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2005:
Werner Herzog
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- dan –
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- and –
- 2006: –
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2007:
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- Ken Burns dan –
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- Richard Robbins –
- Barbet Schroeder –
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2008:
Ari Folman
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- , –
- , Patricio Lanfranco Leverton –
- James Marsh –
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2009:
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The Cove
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- – Food, Inc.
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- Agnes Varda –
2010an
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2010:
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Inside Job
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- & –
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2011:
James Marsh
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- & Bruce Sinofsky –
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- Richard Press –
- Martin Scorsese – George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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2012: Malik Bendjelloul –
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- – The Queen of Versailles
- Alison Klayman –
- 2013: Jehane Noujaim – The Square
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2014:
Laura Poitras
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Citizenfour
- Dan Krauss – The Kill Team
- John Maloof dan Charlie Siskel –
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- Orlando von Einsiedel – Virunga
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2015:
Matthew Heineman
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Cartel Land
- and –
- Liz Garbus – What Happened, Miss Simone?
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- Asif Kapadia – Amy
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2016:
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O.J.: Made in America
- Otto Bell –
- Josh Kriegman dan Elyse Steinberg –
- – I Am Not Your Negro
- – Life, Animated