BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Becoming Cousteau
The Crime of the Century
A Crime on the Bayou
Flee
Introducing, Selma Blair
The Lost Leonardo
My Name is Pauli Murray
Procession
The Rescue
**Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
BEST DIRECTOR (TIE)
**Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin – The Rescue
Liz Garbus – Becoming Cousteau
Jessica Kingdon – Ascension
Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry – Attica
Jonas Poher Rasmussen – Flee
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Edgar Wright – The Sparks Brothers
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jessica Beshir – Faya Dayi
Jonathan Griffith, Brett Lowell and Austin Siadak – The Alpinist
**David Katznelson, Ian Seabrook and Picha Srisansanee – The Rescue
Jessica Kingdon and Nathan Truesdell – Ascension
Nelson Hume and Alan Jacobsen – The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
Emiliano Villanueva – A Cop Movie
Pete West – Puff: Wonders of the Reef
BEST EDITING
Francisco Bello, Matthew Heineman, Gabriel Rhodes and David Zieff – The First Wave
Jeff Consiglio – LFG
Bob Eisenhardt – The Rescue
Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz – The Velvet Underground
Jessica Kingdon – Ascension
**Joshua L. Pearson – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Julian Quantrill – The Real Charlie Chaplin
BEST SCORE
Jongnic Bontemps – My Name is Pauli Murray
Dan Deacon – Ascension
Alex Lasarenko and David Little – The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
Cyrus Melchor and Nicolas Snyder – LFG
**Daniel Pemberton – The Rescue
Rachel Portman – Julia
Dirac Sea – Final Account
BEST ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTARY
Becoming Cousteau
The Real Charlie Chaplin
The Real Right Stuff
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
**Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Val
The Velvet Underground
BEST HISTORICAL OR BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY
Attica
A Crime on the Bayou
Fauci
Final Account
Julia
My Name is Pauli Murray
No Ordinary Man
**Val
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry
Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James
Listening to Kenny G
The Sparks Brothers
**Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tina
The Velvet Underground
BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
**The Crime of the Century
Enemies of the State
Four Hours at the Capitol
Influence
Mayor Pete
Missing in Brooks County
Nasrin
Not Going Quietly
BEST SCIENCE/NATURE DOCUMENTARY
**Becoming Cousteau
Fauci
The First Wave
The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
Playing with Sharks
Puff: Wonders of the Reef
The Year Earth Changed
BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
**The Alpinist
Changing the Game
The Day Sports Stood Still
Kevin Garnett: Anything is Possible
LFG
Tiger
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Audible
Borat’s American Lockdown
Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis
Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol
The Doll
The Last Cruise
**The Queen of Basketball
Snowy
BEST NARRATION
9/11: Inside the President’s War Room
Jeff Daniels, Narrator
Becoming Cousteau
Vincent Cassel, Narrator
Mark Monroe and Pax Wassermann, Writers
The Crime of the Century
Alex Gibney, Narrator
Alex Gibney, Writer
The Neutral Ground
CJ Hunt, Narrator
CJ Hunt, Jane Geisler and James Hamilton, Writers
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Pearl Mackie, Narrator
Oliver Kindeberg, Peter Middleton and James Spinney, Writers
**Val
Jack Kilmer, Narrator
Val Kilmer, Writer
The Year Earth Changed
David Attenborough, Narrator
MOST COMPELLING LIVING SUBJECTS OF A DOCUMENTARY (HONOR)
Ady Barkan – Not Going Quietly
Selma Blair – Introducing, Selma Blair
Pete Buttigieg – Mayor Pete
Anthony Fauci – Fauci
Ben Fong-Torres – Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Val Kilmer – Val
Ron and Russell Mael – The Sparks Brothers
Rita Moreno – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
Valerie Taylor – Playing With Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story
