Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle to the film judged by its members as the best international documentary film of the year. It is separate from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary, presented to Canadian documentary films.

Winners and nominees

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2000s

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Year Films Directors Ref
2009 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Sacha Gervasi [1]
The Cove Louie Psihoyos [2]
Food, Inc. Robert Kenner

2010s

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Year Films Directors Ref
2010 Exit Through the Gift Shop Banksy [3]
Inside Job Charles Ferguson [4]
Waiting for "Superman" Davis Guggenheim
2011 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog [5]
The Interrupters Steve James [6]
Nostalgia for the Light Patricio Guzmán
Project Nim James Marsh
Surviving Progress Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
2012 Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul [7]
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Alison Klayman [8]
How to Survive a Plague David France
2013 The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer [9]
Blackfish Gabriela Cowperthwaite [10]
West of Memphis Amy J. Berg
2014 The Overnighters Jesse Moss [11]
Citizenfour Laura Poitras [12]
Virunga Orlando von Einsiedel
2015 Amy Asif Kapadia [13]
Cartel Land Matthew Heineman [14]
Going Clear Alex Gibney
2016 Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson [15]
13th Ava DuVernay [16]
O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman
2017 Ex Libris: The New York Public Library Frederick Wiseman [17]
Faces Places (Visages Villages) Agnès Varda, JR [18]
Jane Brett Morgen
2018 Minding the Gap Bing Liu [19]
Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin [20]
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville
2019 Honeyland Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov [21]
Apollo 11 Todd Douglas Miller [22]
For Sama Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts

2020s

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Year Films Directors Ref
2020 Collective Alexander Nanau [23]
Athlete A Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk [24]
Totally Under Control Alex Gibney
2021 Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen [25]
The Sparks Brothers Edgar Wright [26]
Summer of Soul Questlove
2022 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras [27]
Fire of Love Sara Dosa [28]
Moonage Daydream Brett Morgen
2023 To Kill a Tiger Nisha Pahuja [29]
American Symphony Matthew Heineman [30]
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie Davis Guggenheim

References

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  1. ^ "Vancouver critics pick I Killed My Mother". CBC News, January 13, 2010.
  2. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Up in the Air, J'ai tué ma mí¨re lead nominations". The Georgia Straight, January 4, 2010.
  3. ^ "Incendies, Barney’s lead Vancouver Critics Awards". Playback, January 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Glen Schaefer, "Incendies gets five nods from Vancouver film critics". The Province, January 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "Vancouver critics name The Artist top film of 2011". The Globe and Mail, January 10, 2012.
  6. ^ "VFCC Announces 12th Annual Award Nominees". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, January 2, 2012.
  7. ^ "Beyond the Black Rainbow, War Witch win at Vancouver critics awards". Playback, January 8, 2013.
  8. ^ "2013 VFCC Nominees Announced!". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 27, 2012.
  9. ^ "The Dirties cleans up in Vancouver; Film critics give top prizes to Matt Johnson, 12 Years a Slave". Edmonton Journal, January 9, 2014.
  10. ^ "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
  11. ^ "Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". The Georgia Straight, January 6, 2015.
  12. ^ "2015 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.
  13. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Honour ‘Haida Gwaii’". Point of View, January 7, 2016.
  14. ^ "2016 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2015.
  15. ^ "Hello Destroyer wins big with VFCC". Playback, January 11, 2017.
  16. ^ "2017 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.
  17. ^ "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight, January 9, 2018.
  18. ^ "2018 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 15, 2017.
  19. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film". Toronto Star, January 8, 2019.
  20. ^ Josh Cabrita, "2019 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2018.
  21. ^ "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'". Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
  22. ^ Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms". The Georgia Straight, December 13, 2019.
  23. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2021.
  24. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: 'Mank' Leads With Five Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter, February 19, 2021.
  25. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun, March 8, 2022.
  26. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun, February 20, 2022.
  27. ^ Vlessing, Etan (February 13, 2023). "'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  28. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
  29. ^ Gee, Dana (February 13, 2024). "'Anatomy of a Fall' beats out Hollywood to take top honours at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  30. ^ Vlessing, Etan (January 22, 2024). "'Oppenheimer' Leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations With Six Nods". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
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