Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries has been awarded since 1991.
Winners and nominees
1990s
- 1991: Barbara Kopple - American Dream
- Alan Raymond - Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
- Albert Maysles - Soldiers of Music: Rostorpovitch Returns to Russia
- Eleanor Coppola - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- 1992: Joseph A. Berlinger and Bruce J. Sinofsky - Brother's Keeper
- Mark Stouffer - Braving Alaska
- Ric Burns - The Donner Party
- 1993: Barbara Kopple - Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
- Susan Steinberg - Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
- Susan Raymond - I am a Promise
- Bruce Kuerten - From Fields of Promise
- Shari Cookson - Skinheads Usa: Soldiers in the Race War
- 1994: Steve James - Hoop Dreams
- Bethany Yarrow - Mama Awethu!
- Susan Todd & Andrew Young - Lives in Hazard
- Jyll Johnstone - Martha & Ethel
- Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine - Frosh: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm
- 1995: Terry Zwigoff - Crumb
- Deborah Hoffmann - Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
- Freida Mock - Maya Lin: A Strong Clear
- Bill Van Daalen - Indianapolis: Ship of Doom
- Helen Whitney - Richard Avedon: Darkness & Light
- 1996: Al Pacino - Looking for Richard
- Leon Gast - When We Were Kings
- Jeanne Jordan - Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
- Isaac Mizrahi - Slaughter, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
- Bruce Sinofsky And Joseph Berlinger - Paradise Lost
- 1997: Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell - Riding the Rails
- Ellen Hovde - Liberty! The American Revolution: "Blows Must Decide"
- John O'Hagan - Wonderland
- Michele Ohayon - Colors Straight Up
- Peter Rosen - First Person Singular: I.M. Pei
- 1998: Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert and Gordon Quinn - Vietnam, Long Time Coming
- Matthew Diamond - Dancemaker
- Susan Lacy - Leonard Bernstein, Reaching for the Note
- Nigel Noble - Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
- Kyra Thompson - Dying to Tell the Story
- 1999: Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen - On the Ropes
- Barry Blaustein - Beyond the Mat
- Marc Levin - Thug Life In DC
- Errol Morris - Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- Gary Weimberg - The Double Life Of Ernesto Gomez
2000s
- 2000: Chuck Braverman - High School Boot Camp
- Laurie Collyer - Nuyorican Dream
- David DeVries - The True Story Of The Bridge On The River Kwai
- Mark Lewis - The Natural History Of The Chicken
- Michael Mierendorf - Broken Child
- 2001: Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim - Startup.com
- Charles Braverman - Rocky and Rolanda
- Stephen Ives - Amato: A Love Affair with Opera
- Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid - Long Night's Journey Into Day
- Martin J. Spinelli - Long Night's Journey Into Day
- 2002: Tasha Oldham - The Smith Family
- Charles Braverman - Bottom of the Ninth
- Rebecca Cammisa and Rob Fruchtman - Sister Helen
- Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender - Prisoner of Paradise
- Leah Mahan - Sweet Old Song, P.O.V
- 2003: Nathaniel Kahn - My Architect
- Sam Green and Bill Siegel - The Weather Underground
- Andrew Jarecki - Capturing the Friedmans
- Errol Morris - The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
- José Padilha - Ônibus 174
- 2004: Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni - Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The Story of the Weeping Camel)
- Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman - Born into Brothels
- Ross McElwee - Bright Leaves
- Michael Moore - Fahrenheit 9/11
- Jehane Noujaim - Control Room
- 2005: Werner Herzog - Grizzly Man
- Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani - The Devil's Miner
- Sean McAllister - The Liberace of Baghdad
- Rupert Murray - Unknown White Male
- Brent and Craig Renaud - Off to War
- 2006: Arūnas Matelis - Before Flying Back to the Earth
- Amy Berg - Deliver Us From Evil
- Michael Glawogger - Workingman's Death
- James Longley - Iraq In Fragments
- Jean-Henri Meunier - Ici Najac, A Vous La Terre
- 2007: Asger Leth - Ghosts of Cité Soleil
- 2008: Ari Folman - Vals Im Bashir
- Peter Gilbert, Steve James - At the Death House Door
- Elizabeth Farnsworth, Patricio Lanfranco Leverton - The Judge and the General
- James Marsh - Man on Wire
- Gonzalo Arijón - Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains
- 2009: Louie Psihoyos - The Cove
- Sacha Gervasi - Anvil! The True Story of Anvil
- Mai Iskander - Garbage Dreams
- Robert Kenner - Food, Inc.
- Geoffrey Smith - The English Surgeon
- Agnes Varda - The Beaches of Agnès
2010s
- 2010: Charles Ferguson - Inside Job
- 2011: James Marsh - Project Nim
- 2012: Malik Bendjelloul - Searching for Sugar Man
- 2013: Jehane Noujaim - The Square
- 2014: Laura Poitras - Citizenfour
- Dan Krauss - The Kill Team
- John Maloof and Charlie Siskel - Finding Vivian Maier
- Jesse Moss - The Overnighters
- Orlando von Einsiedel - Virunga
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