Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film

Satellite Award for Best Documentary

Awarded for| Best Documentary
Country| United States
Presented by| International Press Academy
First awarded| 1997 (awarded to 4 Little Girls)
Currently held by| Bad Press (2023)

The Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual award given by the International Press Academy.

## Winners and nominees[edit]

### 1990s[edit]

Year  | Film  | Director(s)

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1997
[1] | 4 Little Girls | Spike Lee
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris
Hype! | Doug Pray
Shooting Porn | Ronnie Larsen
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist | Kirby Dick
1998
[2] | Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life | Michael Paxton
The Cruise | Bennett Miller
The Farm: Angola, USA | Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack
Kurt & Courtney | Nick Broomfield
Public Housing | Frederick Wiseman
1999
[3] | Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders
42: Forty Two Up | Michael Apted
American Movie | Chris Smith
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | Errol Morris
Return with Honor | Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
The Source | Chuck Workman

### 2000s[edit]

Year  | Film  | Director(s)

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2000
[4] | Reckless Indifference | William Gazecki
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies | Hugh Munro Neely
Dark Days | Marc Singer
The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris
One Day in September | Kevin Macdonald
2001
[5][6] | In Cane for Life (A Vida em Cana) | Jorge W. Atalla
Calle 54 | Fernando Trueba
My Voyage to Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia) | Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Jan Harlan
2002
[7] | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Biggie and Tupac | Nick Broomfield
Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore
The Cockettes | Bill Weber, David Weissman
Dogtown and Z-Boys | Stacy Peralta
2003
[8] | Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Lee Hirsch
Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | Errol Morris
Lost in La Mancha | Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
My Flesh and Blood | Jonathan Karsh
Stevie | Steve James
2004
[9] | Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids | Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
The Fuente Family: An American Dream | James Orr
Lightning in a Bottle | Antoine Fuqua
Touching the Void | Kevin Macdonald
Tupac: Resurrection | Lauren Lazin
2005
[10] | Mad Hot Ballroom | Marilyn Agrelo
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney
Favela Rising | Matt Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist
March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur) | Luc Jacquet
Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
New York Doll | Greg Whiteley
2006
[11][12] | Deliver Us from Evil | Amy Berg
An Inconvenient Truth | David Guggenheim
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple | Stanley Nelson
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man | Lian Lunson
The U.S. vs. John Lennon | David Leaf, John Scheinfeld
The War Tapes | Deborah Scranton
2007
[13][14] | Sicko | Michael Moore
The 11th Hour | Nadia Conners, Leila Conners
Darfur Now | Ted Braun
The King of Kong | Seth Gordon
Lake of Fire | Tony Kaye
No End in Sight | Charles Ferguson
2008
[15] | Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer | Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden
Man on Wire | James Marsh
Encounters at the End of the World | Werner Herzog
Pray the Devil Back to Hell | Gini Reticker
Religulous | Larry Charles
Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir) | Ari Folman
2009
[16][17] | Every Little Step | James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo
The Beaches of Agnès | Agnès Varda
The Cove | Louie Psihoyos
It Might Get Loud | Davis Guggenheim
The September Issue | R.J. Cutler
Valentino: The Last Emperor | Matt Tyrnauer

### 2010s[edit]

Year  | Film  | Director(s)

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2010
[18] | Restrepo | Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington
Behind the Burly Q | Leslie Zemeckis
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Alex Gibney
Countdown to Zero | Lucy Walker
A Film Unfinished | Yael Hersonski
Inside Job | Charles Ferguson
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work | Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Sequestro | Jorge Wolney Atalla Junior
The Tillman Story | Amir Bar-Lev
Waiting for "Superman" | Davis Guggenheim
2011
[19][20] | Senna | Asif Kapadia
American: The Bill Hicks Story | Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Werner Herzog
The Interrupters | Steve James
My Perestroika | Robin Hessman
One Lucky Elephant | Lisa Leeman
Pina | Wim Wenders
Project Nim | James Marsh
Tabloid | Errol Morris
Under Fire: Journalists in Combat | Martyn Burke
2012
[21][22] | Chasing Ice | Jeff Orlowski
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | Alison Klayman
The Central Park Five | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
The Gatekeepers | Dror Moreh
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present | Matthew Akers
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth | Chad Freidrichs
Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul
West of Memphis | Amy J. Berg
2013
[23][24] | Blackfish | Gabriela Cowperthwaite
20 Feet from Stardom | Morgan Neville
The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer
After Tiller | Martha Shane, Lana Wilson
American Promise | Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie | Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Sound City | Dave Grohl
The Square | Jehane Noujaim
Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley
Tim's Vermeer | Teller
2014
[25][26] | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq | Nancy Buirski
Art and Craft | Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman
Finding Vivian Maier | John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | James Keach
Jodorowsky's Dune | Frank Pavich
Keep on Keepin' On | Alan Hicks
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Chuck Workman
Red Army | Gabe Polsky
Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel
2015
[27] | Amy | Asif Kapadia
The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer
Becoming Bulletproof | Michael Barnett
Best of Enemies | Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
Cartel Land | Matthew Heineman
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Alex Gibney
He Named Me Malala | Davis Guggenheim
The Hunting Ground | Kirby Dick
National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Douglas Tirola
Where to Invade Next | Michael Moore
2016
[28] | 13th | Ava DuVernay
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week | Ron Howard
The Eagle Huntress | Otto Bell
Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi
Gleason | Clay Tweel
The Ivory Game | Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson
Life, Animated | Roger Ross Williams
O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman
Tower | Keith Maitland
Zero Days | Alex Gibney
2017
[29][30] | Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski
City of Ghosts | Matthew Heineman
Cries from Syria | Evgeny Afineevsky
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library | Frederick Wiseman
Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS | Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested
Human Flow | Ai Weiwei
Icarus | Bryan Fogel
Kedi | Ceyda Torun
Legion of Brothers | Greg Barker
2018
[31] | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu
Crime + Punishment | Stephen Maing
Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
RBG | Betsy West, Julie Cohen
Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle
Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville
2019
[32] | 63 Up | Michael Apted
The Apollo | Roger Ross Williams
Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller
The Cave | Feras Fayyad
Citizen K | Alex Gibney
For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
One Child Nation | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang

### 2020s[edit]

Year  | Film  | Director(s)

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2020
[33][34] | Collective | Alexander Nanau
Acasă, My Home | Radu Ciorniciuc
Circus of Books | Rachel Mason
Coup 53 | Rachel Mason
Crip Camp | Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht
The Dissident | Bryan Fogel
Gunda | Viktor Kossakovsky
MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard
A Most Beautiful Thing | Mary Mazzio
The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
2021
[35] | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Amir "Questlove" Thompson
Ascension | Jessica Kingdon
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road | Brent Wilson
Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Introducing, Selma Blair |

Rachel Fleit

Julia | Julie Cohen and Betsy West
Procession | Robert Greene
The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
Val | Leo Scott and Ting Poo
The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes
2022
[36] | Fire of Love | Sara Dosa
All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras
Descendant | Margaret Brown
Good Night Oppy | Ryan White
Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile | Kathlyn Horan
The Territory | Alex Pritz
Young Plato | Declan McGrath, Neasa Ní Chianáin
2023
[37][38] | Bad Press | Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler
20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov
American Symphony | Matthew Heineman
Close to Vermeer | Suzanne Raes
Lakota Nation vs. United States | Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli
Little Richard: I Am Everything | Lisa Cortés
Love to Love You, Donna Summer | Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano
Stamped from the Beginning | Roger Ross Williams

## Multiple wins[edit]

* Asif Kapadia-2 (one tied with Joshua Oppenheimer)
* Jeff Orlowski-2

## See also[edit]

* Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature

## References[edit]

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Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film

* 4 Little Girls (1997)
* Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1998)
* Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
* Reckless Indifference (2000)
* In Cane for Life (A Vida em Cana) (2001)
* The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
* Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003)
* Super Size Me (2004)
* Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
* Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
* Sicko (2007)
* Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer / Man on Wire (2008)
* Every Little Step (2009)
* Restrepo (2010)
* Senna (2011)
* Chasing Ice (2012)
* Blackfish (2013)
* Citizenfour (2014)
* Amy / The Look of Silence (2015)
* 13th (2016)
* Chasing Coral (2017)
* Minding the Gap (2018)
* 63 Up (2019)
* Collective (2020)
* Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
* Fire of Love (2022)
* Bad Press (2023)

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Current Awards
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* Best Film
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Supporting Actor
* Supporting Actress
* Animated or Mixed Media Film
* Art Direction and Production Design
* Cinematography
* Costume Design
* Director
* Documentary Film
* Editing
* Foreign Language Film
* Original Score
* Original Song
* Screenplay – Adapted
* Screenplay – Original
* Sound
* Visual Effects
* Cast

Current Awards
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* TV Series: Drama
* TV Series: Musical or Comedy
* TV Series: Genre
* Miniseries & Limited Series or TV Film
* Actor: Drama Series
* Actor: Musical or Comedy Series
* Actor: Miniseries or TV Film
* Actress: Drama Series
* Actress: Musical or Comedy Series
* Actress: Miniseries or TV Film
* Supporting Actor
* Supporting Actress
* Cast

Retired Awards
(Film)|

* Film: Musical or Comedy
* Actor: Musical or Comedy
* Actress: Musical or Comedy
* Supporting Actor: Drama
* Supporting Actor: Musical or Comedy
* Supporting Actress: Drama
* Supporting Actress: Musical or Comedy

Retired Awards
(Television)|

* Miniseries & Limited Series
* TV Film
* Supporting Actor: Drama Series
* Supporting Actor: Musical or Comedy Series
* Supporting Actress: Drama Series
* Supporting Actress: Musical or Comedy Series

Retired Awards
(New Media)|

* Best Classic DVD
* Best DVD Extras
* Best DVD Release of TV Shows
* Interactive Media
* Outstanding Mobile Game
* Outstanding Overall Blu-Ray/DVD
* Outstanding Platform Action/Adventure Game
* Outstanding Puzzle/Strategy Game
* Outstanding Role Playing Game
* Outstanding Sports Game
* Outstanding Youth Blu-Ray/DVD

Honorary Awards|

* Auteur Award
* Humanitarian Award
* Mary Pickford Award
* Nikola Tesla Award
* Outstanding New Talent

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