Directors Guild of America Awards, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

2024

Mstyslav Chernov / 20 днів у Маріуполі

Moses Bwayo / Bobi Wine: The People's President

Christopher Sharp / Bobi Wine: The People's President

D. Smith / Kokomo City

Davis Guggenheim / Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Madeleine Gavin / Beyond Utopia

2023

Laura Poitras / All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Sara Dosa / Fire of Love

Matthew Heineman / Retrograde

Shaunak Sen / ऑल दैट ब्रीथ्स

Daniel Roher / Navalny

2022

E. Chai Vasarhelyi / The Rescue

Jimmy Chin / The Rescue

Jessica Kingdon / 登楼叹

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

Stanley Nelson Jr. / Attica

2021

Michael Dweck / The Truffle Hunters

Gregory Kershaw / The Truffle Hunters

Pippa Ehrlich / My Octopus Teacher

James Reed / My Octopus Teacher

David France / Welcome to Chechnya

Amanda McBaine / Boys State

Jesse Moss / Boys State

Benjamin Ree / kunstneren og tyven

2020

Steven Bognar / American Factory

Julia Reichert / 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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Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary