Academy Award for Documentary Feature

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The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films.

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Controversy

The Award for Best Documentary is the most plagued and controversial award of the Academies. Many of the most influential and critically acclaimed documentaries not only didn't win the award, but often weren't even nominated, inluding most notably Thin Blue Line, Roger and Me, and Hoop Dreams. The controversy over Hoop Dreams was enough to actually force the Academy Awards to change their documentary voting system.

Whether the new rules are successful is still debated, since 2005's Grizzly Man—a documentary strong enough to appear on many critics top 10 lists—wasn't nominated, and didn't even make their internally distributed top 15 list.

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Winners

Following the Academy's practice, films are listed by the "award year", which is also the year in which the film was released under the Academy's rules for eligibility. Due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete.

For 1942 there was one Documentary category and four winners

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1940s

From 1943 there were two separate documentary categories

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1950s

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1960s

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1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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2000s

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