Directors Guild of America Awards, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

2026

Sara Khaki / Cutting Through Rocks

Geeta Gandbhir / The Perfect Neighbor

Mark Obenhaus / Cover-Up

Laura Poitras / Cover-Up

Mstyslav Chernov / 2000 метрів до Андріївки

Elizabeth Lo / Mistress Dispeller

2025

Daughters

Porcelain War

Sugarcane

Daughters

Ibrahim Nash'at / Hollywoodgate

Johan Grimonprez / Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Porcelain War

2024

D. Smith / Kokomo City

Moses Bwayo / Bobi Wine: The People's President

Davis Guggenheim / Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Madeleine Gavin / Beyond Utopia

Christopher Sharp / Bobi Wine: The People's President

Mstyslav Chernov / 20 днів у Маріуполі

2023

Daniel Roher / Navalny

Sara Dosa / Fire of Love

Laura Poitras / All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Matthew Heineman / Retrograde

Shaunak Sen / ऑल दैट ब्रीथ्स

2022

Questlove / Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Stanley Nelson Jr. / Attica

Jimmy Chin / The Rescue

Jessica Kingdon / 登楼叹

E. Chai Vasarhelyi / The Rescue

2021

Pippa Ehrlich / My Octopus Teacher

James Reed / My Octopus Teacher

Amanda McBaine / Boys State

Jesse Moss / Boys State

Benjamin Ree / kunstneren og tyven

Gregory Kershaw / The Truffle Hunters

Michael Dweck / The Truffle Hunters

David France / Welcome to Chechnya

2020

Julia Reichert / American Factory

Steven Bognar / American Factory

2019

Tim Wardle / Three Identical Strangers

2018

Matthew Heineman / City of Ghosts

2017

Ezra Edelman / O.J.: Made in America

2016

Matthew Heineman / Cartel Land

2006

Werner Herzog / Grizzly Man

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