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 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) |
The BAFTA Award for Best Documentary is a special prize given out every year to the best real-life story movie, also known as a documentary. This award is presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) during its famous British Academy Film Awards ceremony.
In the lists below, the movie titles in bold with a gold background are the winners. The other movies listed were the nominees, which means they were also considered for the award. The years show when the movies were released, not when the awards ceremony happened.
What is the BAFTA Documentary Award?
BAFTA is a British group that gives awards for amazing work in movies, television, and video games. They started giving an award for documentaries way back in 1948.
After 1990, they stopped giving a separate award for a while, but documentaries could still win in other categories. In 2012, BAFTA brought back the Best Documentary award because so many great real-life movies were being shown in theaters.
Winners and Nominees
Here are some of the movies that have won or been nominated for the Best Documentary award.
This color shows the winner
2010s
| Year | Film | People Who Received the Award |
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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 | |
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(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 | |
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(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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(73rd) |
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 |
2020s
| Year | Film | People Who Received the Award |
|---|---|---|
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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 | |
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(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 | |
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(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 |
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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