BEST DOCUMENTARY
Crime + Punishment – Director: Stephen Maing
Dark Money – Director: Kimberly Reed
Free Solo – Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Hal – Director: Amy Scott
Hitler’s Hollywood – Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Minding the Gap – Director: Bing Liu
RBG – Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Three Identical Strangers – Director: Tim Wardle
Wild Wild Country – Directors: Chapman Way, Maclain Way
**Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Director: Morgan Neville
BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
America to Me
Dirty Money
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Flint Town
One Strange Rock
The Fourth Estate
**The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
Wild Wild Country
BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIES
30 for 30
American Masters
**Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Frontline
Independent Lens
Making a Murderer
POV
The History of Comedy
BEST DIRECTOR
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Free Solo
Bing Liu – Minding the Gap
**Morgan Neville – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Kimberly Reed – Dark Money
Rüdiger Suchsland – Hitler’s Hollywood
Tim Wardle – Three Identical Strangers
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR – TIE
**Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster – Science Fair
Heather Lenz – Kusama – Infinity
**Bing Liu – Minding the Gap
Stephen Nomura Schible – Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Rudy Valdez – The Sentence
Chapman Way and Maclain Way – Wild Wild Country
BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
**RBG – Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Dark Money – Director: Kimberly Reed
Fahrenheit 11/9 – Director: Michael Moore
Flint Town – Directors: Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper, Jessica Dimmock
Hitler’s Hollywood – Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls – Directors: George Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt
The Fourth Estate – Directors: Liz Garbus, Jenny Carchman
BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
Andre the Giant – Director: Jason Hehir
Being Serena
**Free Solo – Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection – Director: Julien Faraut
Minding the Gap – Director: Bing Liu
The Workers Cup – Director: Adam Sobel
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Bad Reputation – Director: Kevin Kerslake
David Bowie: The Last Five Years – Director: Francis Whately
Elvis Presley: The Searcher – Director: Thom Zimny
Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow – Director: Stephen Kijak
**Quincy – Directors: Alan Hicks, Rashida Jones
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda – Director: Stephen Nomura Schible
Whitney – Director: Kevin Macdonald
MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY
306 Hollywood – Directors: Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin
**Free Solo – Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Hitler’s Hollywood – Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda – Director: Stephen Nomura Schible
Wild Wild Country – Directors: Chapman Way, Maclain Way
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Director: Morgan Neville
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
306 Hollywood – Cinematographers: Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin, Alejandro Mejía
The Dawn Wall – Cinematographer: Brett Lowell
**Free Solo – Cinematographers: Jimmy Chin, Clair Popkin, Mikey Schaefer
Minding the Gap – Cinematographer: Bing Liu
Pandas – Cinematographer: David Douglas
Wild Wild Country – Cinematographer: Adam Stone
BEST EDITING
Dark Money – Editor: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Filmworker – Editor: Tony Zierra
Free Solo – Editor: Bob Eisenhardt
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection – Editor: Julien Faraut
Three Identical Strangers – Editor: Michael Harte
**Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Editors: Jeff Malmberg, Aaron Wickenden
MOST COMPELLING LIVING SUBJECT OF A DOCUMENTARY (ALL LISTED IN THE CATEGORY WILL BE HONORED AT THE EVENT)
Scotty Bowers – Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RBG
Alex Honnold – Free Solo
Joan Jett – Bad Reputation
Quincy Jones – Quincy
David Kellman and Bobby Shafran – Three Identical Strangers
John McEnroe – John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Leon Vitali – Filmworker
