| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Ken G. Hall | Kokoda Front Line! | Won | At the 15th Academy Awards, four films won and 21 other films were nominated in a single Documentary category in recognition of the Allied war effort instead of two separate categories for shorts and features. | |
| 1954 | Guy Glover | The Stratford Adventure | Nominated | ||
| 1966 | Peter Watkins | The War Game | Won | ||
| 1967 | Tom Daly Peter Jones |
Helicopter Canada | Nominated | ||
| 1976 | Donald Brittain Robert A. Duncan |
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Nominated | ||
| 1977 | Bill Brind Torben Schioler Tony Ianzelo |
High Grass Circus | Nominated | ||
| 1979 | Paul Cowen | Going the Distance | Nominated | Shared with Jacques Bobet | |
| 1983 | Michael Bryans Tina Viljoen |
The Profession of Arms | Nominated | ||
| 1980 | David Bradbury | Front Line | Nominated | ||
| 1983 | Robin Anderson Bob Connolly |
First Contact | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | Eva Orner | Taxi to the Dark Side | Won | ||
| 2008 | James Marsh | Man on Wire | Won | Shared with Simon Chinn | |
| 2010 | Banksy | Exit Through the Gift Shop | Nominated | ||
| Lucy Walker | Waste Land | Nominated | |||
| Tim Hetherington | Restrepo | Nominated |
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“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.”
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