Directing Award Documentary

This is a list of winners of the Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for documentary features.

Winners

1990s

• 1997: Arthur Dong – Licensed to Kill
• 1998: Julia Loktev – Moment of Impact
• 1999: Barbara Sonneborn – Regret to Inform

2000s

• 2000: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman – Paragraph 175
• 2001: Stacy Peralta – Dogtown and Z-Boys
• 2002: Rebecca Cammisa and Rob Fruchtman – Sister Helen
• 2003: Jonathan Karsh – My Flesh and Blood
• 2004: Morgan Spurlock – Super Size Me
• 2005: Jeff Feuerzeig – The Devil and Daniel Johnston
• 2006: James Longley – Iraq in Fragments
• 2007: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine – War/Dance
• 2008: Nanette Burstein – American Teen
• 2009: Natalia Almada – El General

2010s

• 2010: Leon Gast – Smash His Camera
• 2011: Jon Foy – '
• 2012: Lauren Greenfield – The Queen of Versailles
• 2013: Zachary Heinzerling – Cutie and the Boxer
• 2014: Ben Cotner and Ryan White – The Case Against 8
• 2015: Matthew Heineman – Cartel Land
• 2016: Roger Ross Williams – Life, Animated
• 2017: Peter Nicks – The Force
• 2018: Alexandria Bombach – On Her Shoulders
• 2019: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert – American Factory