BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (Theatrical Feature)
13th
**O.J.: Made in America
Cameraperson
Fire at Sea
Gleason
Life, Animated
Tickled
Tower
Weiner
The Witness
BEST DIRECTION OF A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (Theatrical Feature)
**Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America
Ron Howard – The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Kirsten Johnson – Cameraperson
Keith Maitland – Tower
Clay Tweel – Gleason
Roger Ross Williams – Life, Animated
BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (Theatrical Feature)
Otto Bell – The Eagle Huntress
David Farrier and Dylan Reeve – Tickled
Adam Irving – Off the Rails
**Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg – Weiner
James D. Solomon – The Witness
Nanfu Wang – Hooligan Sparrow
BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
**13th
O.J.: Made in America
Audrie & Daisy
Newtown
Weiner
Zero Days
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (TV/STREAMING)
**13th
Fantastic Lies
Amanda Knox
Audrie & Daisy
Before the Flood
Holy Hell
Into the Inferno
Jim: The James Foley Story
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Rats
BEST DIRECTOR (TV/STREAMING)
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato – Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn – Amanda Knox
**Ava DuVernay – 13th
Werner Herzog – Into the Inferno
Morgan Spurlock – Rats
Fisher Stevens – Before the Flood
BEST FIRST FEATURE (TV/STREAMING) – TIE
**Everything is Copy – Jacob Bernstein and Nick Hooker
Holy Hell – Will Allen
Mavis! – Jessica Edwards
My Beautiful Broken Brain – Sophie Robinson and Lotje Sodderland
**Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four – Deborah Esquenazi
Team Foxcatcher – Jon Greenhalgh
BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
**O.J.: Made in America
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth
The Eighties
The Hunt
Jackie Robinson
Soundbreaking: Stories From the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music
BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIE
**30 for 30
Frontline
Last Chance U
Morgan Spurlock Inside Man
POV
This Is Life with Lisa Ling
BEST SONG IN A DOCUMENTARY
“Angel by the Wings” – The Eagle Huntress – Written by Sia – Performed by Sia
“The Empty Chair” – Jim: The James Foley Story – Written by Sting and J. Ralph – Performed by Sting
“Flicker” – Audrie & Daisy – Written by Tori Amos – Performed by Tori Amos
“Hoping and Healing” – Gleason – Written by Mike McCready – Performed by Mike McCready
**“I’m Still Here” – Miss Sharon Jones! – Written by Sharon Jones – Performed by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
“Letters to the Free” – 13th– Written by Common, Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper – Performed by Common featuring Bilal
BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
Fantastic Lies
**O.J.: Made in America
Dark Horse
The Eagle Huntress
Gleason
Jackie Robinson
Keepers of the Game
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
**The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Gimme Danger
Miss Sharon Jones!
The Music of Strangers
Presenting Princess Shaw
We Are X
MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY
Cameraperson
Kate Plays Christine
Life, Animated
Nuts
**Tower
Under The Sun
