BAFTA Award for Best Documentary facts for kids
Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Documentary |
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| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| First awarded | 1948 |
| Currently held by | Mr Nobody Against Putin (2025) |
The BAFTA Award for Best Documentary is a special prize given each year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). BAFTA is a famous organization in the United Kingdom that celebrates the best in movies, TV, and video games. This award honors the most outstanding documentary films.
A documentary is a type of movie that tells a true story or shows real events and people. It's like a non-fiction book, but in film! This award used to be called the Robert Flaherty Documentary Award.
In the lists below, you'll see the names of the films and their directors. The ones shown in bold with a gold background are the winners. The other films listed were also nominated for the award. The years mentioned are when the films were first released, not when the award ceremony happened.
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The Story of the BAFTA Documentary Award
BAFTA is a well-known British group that holds yearly award shows. These shows celebrate amazing achievements in movies, television shows, and video games.
The award for the best documentary film was first given out by BAFTA in 1948. It was presented every year until 1990. During those years, many fantastic true-story films were recognized.
After 1990, documentaries were still honored, but mostly through the British Academy Television Awards. They could also be nominated in other movie categories. Then, in 2012, BAFTA decided to bring back the specific award for Best Documentary. They did this because so many excellent documentary films were being shown in movie theaters across the UK.
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Early BAFTA Documentary Winners (1940s)
| Year | Film | Director |
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(2nd) |
Louisiana Story | Robert J. Flaherty |
| Farrebique | Georges Rouquier | |
| Is Everybody Listening? | Jackson Beck | |
| Shadow of the Ruhr | Sergei Nolbandov | |
| Those Blasted Kids | Astrid Henning-Jensen and Bjarne Henning-Jensen | |
| Three Dawns to Sydney | John Eldridge | |
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(3rd) |
Daybreak in Udi | Terry Bishop |
| Circulation | ||
| The Cornish Engine | Bill Mason and Philip Armitage | |
| Island of the Lagoon (Isole Nella Laguna) | Luciano Emmer and Enrico Gras | |
| The Liver Fluke in Great Britain | John Shearman | |
| Report on the Refugee Problem | ||
Documentaries of the 1950s
| Year | Film | Director |
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(4th) |
The Undefeated | Paul Dickson |
| Inland Waterways | R.K. Neilson-Baxter | |
| Kon-Tiki | Thor Heyerdahl | |
| Green is the Mountain (La Montagne est Verte) | Jean Lehérissey | |
| Seal Island | James Algar | |
| The Vatican | Hans M. Nieter | |
| Life Begins Tomorrow (La Vie Commence Demain) | Nicole Védrès | |
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(5th) |
Beaver Valley | James Algar |
| Visit to Picasso (Bezoek aan Picasso) | Paul Haesaerts | |
| David | Paul Dickson | |
| A Family Affair | Margaret Thomson | |
| Family Portrait | Humphrey Jennings | |
| Oil for the Twentieth Century | Peter Bradford | |
| Out of True | Philip Leacock |
Recent BAFTA Documentary Winners (2010s)
| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
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(65th) |
Senna | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, James Gay-Rees, Asif Kapadia and Manish Pandey |
| George Harrison: Living in the Material World | Olivia Harrison, Martin Scorsese and Nigel Sinclair | |
| Project Nim | Simon Chinn and James Marsh | |
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(66th) |
Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn |
| The Imposter | Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis | |
| McCullin | David Morris and Jacqui Morris | |
| Marley | Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing and Charles Steel | |
| West of Memphis | Amy J. Berg | |
|
(67th) |
The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| The Armstrong Lie | Alex Gibney | |
| Blackfish | Gabriela Cowperthwaite | |
| Tim's Vermeer | Teller, Penn Jillette and Farley Ziegler | |
| We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks | Alex Gibney | |
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(68th) |
Citizenfour | Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky |
| 20 Feet from Stardom | Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Gil Friesen | |
| 20,000 Days on Earth | Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard | |
| Finding Vivian Maier | John Maloof and Charlie Siskel | |
| Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara | |
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(69th) |
Amy | James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia |
| Cartel Land | Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin | |
| He Named Me Malala | Davis Guggenheim, Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes | |
| Listen to Me Marlon | John Battsek, George Chignell, R. J. Cutler and Stevan Riley | |
| Sherpa | Bridget Ikin, Jennifer Peedom and John Smithson | |
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(70th) |
13th | Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish |
| The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Scott Pascucci and Nigel Sinclair | |
| The Eagle Huntress | Otto Bell and Stacey Reiss | |
| Notes on Blindness | Peter Middleton and James Spinney | |
| Weiner | Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg | |
|
(71st) |
I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck |
| City of Ghosts | Matthew Heineman | |
| Icarus | Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan | |
| An Inconvenient Sequel | Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk | |
| Jane | Brett Morgen and Bryan Burk | |
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(72nd) |
Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shannon Dill and Evan Hayes |
| McQueen | Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui | |
| RBG | Julie Cohen and Betsy West | |
| They Shall Not Grow Old | Peter Jackson and Clare Olssen | |
| Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle, Grace Hughes-Hallett and Becky Read | |
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(73th) |
For Sama | Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts |
| American Factory | Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert | |
| Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller | |
| Diego Maradona | Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin | |
| The Great Hack | Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim |
BAFTA Documentary Awards in the 2020s
| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
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(74th) |
My Octopus Teacher | Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster |
| David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes and Keith Scholey | |
| Collective | Alexander Nanau | |
| The Dissident | Bryan Fogel, Thor Halvorssen, Mark Monroe and Jake Swantko | |
| The Social Dilemma | Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes | |
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(75th) |
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent and Joseph Patel |
| Becoming Cousteau | Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan | |
| Cow | Andrea Arnold and Kat Mansoor | |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen and Monica Hellström | |
| The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, John Battsek and P. J. van Sandwijk | |
|
(76th) |
Navalny | Daniel Roher, Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller and Odessa Rae |
| All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer and Aman Mann | |
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov and John Lyons | |
| Fire of Love | Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman | |
| Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen | |
|
(77th) |
20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov and Raney Aronson-Rath |
| American Symphony | Matthew Heineman, Lauren Domino and Joedan Okun | |
| Beyond Utopia | Madeleine Gavin, Rachel Cohen and Jana Edelbaum | |
| Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan King and Annetta Marion | |
| Wham! | Chris Smith | |
|
(78th) |
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gillett, and Robert Ford |
| Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō, Eric Nyari, and Hanna Aqvilin | |
| Daughters | Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, and Laura Choi Raycroft | |
| No Other Land | Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor | |
| Will & Harper | Josh Greenbaum, Rafael Marmor, Christopher Leggett, Will Ferrell, and Jessica Elbaum | |
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(79th) |
Mr Nobody Against Putin | David Borenstein, Helle Faber, Radovan Síbrt, and Alžběta Karásková |
| 2000 Meters to Andriivka | Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, and Raney Aronson-Rath | |
| Apocalypse in the Tropics | Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino | |
| Cover-Up | Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Olivia Streisand, and Yoni Golijev | |
| The Perfect Neighbor | Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, and Sam Bisbee |
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA al mejor documental para niños
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
- Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
- British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary
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