Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded1942
Most recent winnerMstyslav Chernov
Michelle Mizner
Raney Aronson-Rath
20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
Websiteoscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight.[1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946.[2] Copies of every winning film (along with copies of most nominees) are held by the Academy Film Archive.[3]

  1. ^ Fisher, Bob (2012). "The Drive to Archive: Academy Pushes to Preserve Docs". International Documentary Association. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  2. ^ 19th Academy Awards (1946): Nominees and Winners-Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell
  3. ^ "Academy Award-Winning Documentaries". Academy Film Archive. 4 September 2014.