The Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director is one of the awards presented annually by Critics Choice Association since the awards debuted in 2016.
indicates the winner
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‡ Indicates the winner of Best Documentary Feature |
Year | Director(s) | Film | Ref. |
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2020 (5th) |
Kirsten Johnson | Dick Johnson Is Dead‡ | [8][9] |
Garrett Bradley | Time | ||
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk | Athlete A | ||
Victor Kossakovsky | Gunda | ||
James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham | Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution | ||
Dawn Porter | John Lewis: Good Trouble | ||
Benjamin Ree | The Painter and the Thief | ||
2021 (6th) |
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin | The Rescue | [10] |
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson | Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)‡ | ||
Liz Garbus | Becoming Cousteau | ||
Jessica Kingdon | Ascension | ||
Stanley Nelson Jr. and Traci A. Curry | Attica | ||
Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Flee | ||
Edgar Wright | The Sparks Brothers | ||
2022 (7th) |
Ryan White | Good Night Oppy‡ | [11] |
Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio | George Carlin's American Dream | ||
Margaret Brown | Descendant | ||
Sara Dosa | Fire of Love | ||
Reginald Hudlin | Sidney | ||
Brett Morgen | Moonage Daydream | ||
Laura Poitras | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | ||
Daniel Roher | Navalny |
Nominations | Director |
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2 | Jimmy Chin |
Kirsten Johnson | |
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi |