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

YearFilmDirector
2009Anvil! The Story of AnvilSacha Gervasi
2009The CoveLouie Psihoyos
2009Food, Inc.Robert Kenner
2010Exit Through the Gift ShopBanksy
2010Inside JobCharles Ferguson
2010Waiting for "Superman"Davis Guggenheim
2011Cave of Forgotten DreamsWerner Herzog
2011The InterruptersSteve James
2011Nostalgia for the LightPatricio Guzmán
2011Project NimJames Marsh
2011Surviving ProgressMathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
2012Searching for Sugar ManMalik Bendjelloul
2012'Alison Klayman
2012How to Survive a PlagueDavid France
2013The Act of KillingJoshua Oppenheimer
2013BlackfishGabriela Cowperthwaite
2013West of MemphisAmy J. Berg
2014The OvernightersJesse Moss
2014CitizenfourLaura Poitras
2014VirungaOrlando von Einsiedel
2015AmyAsif Kapadia
2015Cartel LandMatthew Heineman
2015Going ClearAlex Gibney
2016CamerapersonKirsten Johnson
201613thAva DuVernay
2016'Ezra Edelman
2017Frederick Wiseman
2017Faces Places Agnès Varda, JR
2017JaneBrett Morgen
2018Minding the GapBing Liu
2018Free SoloElizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
2018Won't You Be My Neighbor?Morgan Neville
2019HoneylandTamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
2019Apollo 11Todd Douglas Miller
2019For SamaWaad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts