Political Film Society Award for Exposé
The Political Film Society Award for exposé is given out each year to a film that has an investigative depth into a subject matter and often exposes surprising information on the subject. This award has been handed out by the Society since 1988. Depending on the number of films that qualify, as few as one films has been nominated for this award before but as many as fourteen have been nominated in years past.
The film that first won this award was A Cry in the Dark in 1988 that was directed by Fred Schepisi. The award, as with any other Political Film Society Award, can go to a mainstream film, independent film, or even an international film. The Political Film Society looks at a broad selection of films before it nominates them for an award.
1980s
- 1988 A Cry in the Dark
1990s
- 1991 Guilty by Suspicion
- Boyz n the Hood
- JFK
- Paris Is Burning
- 1992 Hoffa
- 1994 Quiz Show
- 1995 Nixon
- 1996 Dead Man Walking
- 1997 Rosewood
- Amistad
- The Peacemaker
- Seven Years in Tibet
- 1998 no award
- 1999 Boys Don't Cry
- Bastards
- Cabaret Balkan
- East of Hope Street
- The Insider
- Naturally Native
- One Man's Hero
- Three Kings
- Three Seasons
2000s
- 2000 Before Night Falls
- 2001 Uprising
- Ali
- Baby Boy
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Born Under Libra
- Bread and Roses
- Greenfingers
- The Hidden Half
- The Iron Ladies
- Journey to the Sun
- Lumumba
- Our Lady of the Assassins
- ]Uprising
- 2002 Antwone Fisher
- 2003 Veronica Guerin
- All My Loved Ones
- Amen
- Beyond Borders
- La Casa de Los Babya
- Dark Blue
- The Dancer Upstairs
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Emerald Cowboy
- Green Card Fever
- Herod's Law
- Lilja 4-Ever
- The Magdalene Sisters
- Marooned in Iraq
- Runaway Jury
- Sandstorm
- Shattered Glass
- The Statement
- Taking Sides
- Tycoon: A New Russian
- 2004 Kinsey
- Carandiru
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Gatekeeper
- Hotel Rwanda
- Imagining Argentina
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Osama
- Rosenstrasse
- Tae Guk Ki
- The Yes Men
- 2005 Good Night, and Good Luck
- Before the Fall
- Crash
- Downfall
- The Great Water
- Innocent Voices
- Lord of War
- Machuca
- Munich
- The Ninth Day
- North Country
- Paradise Now
- Turtles Can Fly
- 2006 Kekexili
- Cautiva
- Fast Food Nation
- Glory Road
- The Good Shephard
- The Listening
- The Queen
- The Road to Guantánamo
- Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2007 American Gangster
- 2008 no award
- The Bank Job
- Battle in Seattle
- Changeling
- Che
- The Counterfeiters
- Defiance
- Frost/Nixon
- Milk
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Still Life
- W.
- Walkyrie
- 2009 Fifty Dead Men Walking
- 12
- The Baader Meinhof Complex
- The Cove
- Flame & Citron
- The Hurt Locker
- Invictus
- The Last Station
- Punctured Hope
- Sin Nombre
- Skin
- State of Play
- Storm
- The Stoning of Soraya M.
- The Sun
- The Yes Men Fix the World
- The Young Victoria
2010s
- 2010 Shake Hands with the Devil
- Agora
- Casino Jack
- Extraordinary Measures
- Fair Game
- Formosa Betrayed
- John Rabe
- Mao's Last Dancer
- Princess Ka`iulani
- Vincere
- 2011 Silenced
- 5 Days of War
- Amigo
- The Bang Bang Club
- City of Life and Death
- The Conquest
- The Conspirator
- The Devil's Double
- Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within
- J. Edgar
- Kinyarwanda
- Machine Gun Preacher
- Oranges and Sunshine
- The Whistleblower
- 2012 Argo
- Compliance
- For Greater Glory
- Lula, Son of Brazil
- Mulberry Child
- 2013