BEST DOCUMENTARY
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Beware the Slenderman
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
California Typewriter
Chasing Coral
City of Ghosts
Cries From Syria
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library — Director: Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah Films)
Faces Places
**Jane
Kedi
One of Us
Spettacolo
Strong Island — Director: Yance Ford (Netflix / Yanceville Films, Louverture Films)
BEST DIRECTOR (TIE)
**Evgeny Afineevsky — Cries from Syria
Amir Bar-Lev — Long Strange Trip
Matthew Heineman — City of Ghosts (Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, IFC Films / Our Time Projects)
Bill Morrison — Dawson City: Frozen Time
Doug Nichol — California Typewriter
Jeff Orlowski — Chasing Coral
Irene Taylor Brodsky — Beware the Slenderman
Ceyda Torun — Kedi
Agnès Varda & JR — Faces Places
**Frederick Wiseman — Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY
California Typewriter — Director: Doug Nichol
**Kedi — Director: Ceyda Torun
Nowhere to Hide — Director: Zaradasht Ahmed
Step — Director: Amanda Lipitz
Strong Island — Director: Yance Ford
Whose Streets? — Director: Sabaah Folayan, Co-Director: Damon Davis
BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
11/8/16 — Directors: Duane Andersen, Don Argott & Sheena M. Joyce, Yung Chang, Garth Donovan, Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker, Vikram Gandhi, Raul Gasteazoro, Jamie Goncalves, Andrew Beck Grace, Alma Har’el, Daniel Junge, Alison Klayman, Ciara Lacy, Martha Shane, Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Bassam Tariq
**Abacus: Small Enough to Jail — Director: Steve James
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power — Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
City of Ghosts — Director: Matthew Heineman
Dolores — Director: Peter Bratt
The Reagan Show — Directors: Sierra Pettengill, Pacho Velez
BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
AlphaGo — Director: Greg Kohs
Disgraced — Director: Pat Kondelis
**Icarus — Director: Bryan Fogel
Speed Sisters — Director: Amber Fares
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton — Director: Rory Kennedy
Trophy — Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
**Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of our Lives — Director: Chris Perkel
Contemporary Color — Directors: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis — Director: Colin Hanks
I Called Him Morgan — Director: Kasper Collin
Long Strange Trip — Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World — Director: Catherine Bainbridge, Co-Director: Alfonso Maiorana
BEST SONG IN A DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power — “Truth to Power” — OneRepublic
Chasing Coral — “Tell Me How Long” — Kristen Bell
Cries From Syria — “Prayers for This World” — Cher
Dina — “Best I Can” — Michael Cera featuring Sharon Van Etten
Served Like a Girl — “Dancing Through the Wreckage” — Pat Benatar
**Step — “Jump” — Cynthia Erivo
BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES
The Defiant Ones
Five Came Back
The Keepers
The Nineties
Planet Earth II
**The Vietnam War
BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIES
30 for 30
**American Masters
Frontline
Independent Lens
POV
VICE
MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY (TIE)
78/52 — Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Casting JonBenet — Director: Kitty Green
**Dawson City: Frozen Time — Director: Bill Morrison
Karl Marx City — Directors: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Kedi — Director: Ceyda Torun
**Last Men in Aleppo — Director: Firas Fayyad, Co-Director: Steen Johannessen
