Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture
| Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Production of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Producers Guild of America |
| First awarded | 2007 |
| Currently held by | Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman, and Joedan Okun for American Symphony (2023) |
The Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures is an award annually given by Producers Guild of America since 2007.
Winners and nominees
2000s
| Year | Film | Producer(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 (19th) | Sicko | Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara | [1] |
| Body of War | Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro | ||
| Hear and Now | Irene Taylor Brodsky | ||
| Pete Seeger: The Power of Song | Jim Brown, Michael Cohl, and William Eigen | ||
| White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Steven Okazaki | ||
| 2008 (20th) | Man on Wire | Simon Chinn | [2] |
| Standard Operating Procedure | Julie Ahlberg and Errol Morris | ||
| Trouble the Water | Carl Deal and Tia Lessin | ||
| 2009 (21st) | The Cove | Fisher Stevens and Paula DuPré Pesmen | [3] |
| Burma VJ | Lise Lense-Møller | ||
| Sergio | John Battsek, Greg Barker, and Julie Goldman | ||
| Soundtrack for a Revolution | Joslyn Barnes, Jim Czarnecki, Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman, and Dylan Nelson |
2010s
| Year | Film | Producer(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (22nd) | Waiting for "Superman" | Lesley Chilcott | [4] |
| Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Maiken Baird, Alex Gibney, Jedd Wider, and Todd Wider | ||
| Earth Made of Glass | Reid Carolin and Deborah Scranton | ||
| Inside Job | Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs | ||
| Smash His Camera | Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger | ||
| The Tillman Story | John Battsek | ||
| 2011 (23rd) | Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest | Michael Rapaport, Edward Parks, Frank Mele, and Debra Koffler | [5] |
| Bill Cunningham New York | Philip Gefter | ||
| Project Nim | Simon Chinn | ||
| Senna | James Gay-Rees | ||
| The Union | Cameron Crowe and Michelle Panek | ||
| 2012 (24th) | Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn | [6] |
| A People Uncounted | Marc Swenker and Aaron Yegerr | ||
| The Gatekeepers | Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky, and Dror Moreh | ||
| The Island President | Richard Berge and Bonni Cohen | ||
| The Other Dream Team | Marius Markevicius and Jon Weinbach | ||
| 2013 (25th) | We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks | Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, and Marc Shmuger | [7] |
| Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story | Brad Bernstein and Rick Cikowski | ||
| Life According to Sam | Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine, and Miriam Weintraub | ||
| A Place at the Table | Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, and Lori Silverbush | ||
| Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington | James Brabazon and Nick Quested | ||
| 2014 (26th) | Life Itself | Zak Piper, Steve James, and Garrett Basch | [8] |
| The Green Prince | Nadav Schirman, John Battsek, and Simon Chinn | ||
| Merchants of Doubt | Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo | ||
| Particle Fever | David E. Kaplan, Mark Levinson, Andrea Miller, and Carla Solomon | ||
| Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara | ||
| 2015 (27th) | Amy | James Gay-Rees | [9] |
| The Hunting Ground | Amy Ziering | ||
| The Look of Silence | Signe Byrge Sørensen | ||
| Meru | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin | ||
| Something Better to Come | Sigrid Dyekjær and Hanna Polak | ||
| 2016 (28th) | O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow | [10] |
| Dancer | Gabrielle Tana | ||
| The Eagle Huntress | Stacey Reiss and Otto Bell | ||
| Life, Animated | Julie Goldman and Roger Ross Williams | ||
| Tower | Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, and Megan Gilbride | ||
| 2017 (29th) | Jane | Brett Morgen, Bryan Burk, Tony Gerber, and James Smith | [11] |
| Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes | ||
| City of Ghosts | Matthew Heineman | ||
| Cries from Syria | Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor, and Aaron I. Butler | ||
| Earth: One Amazing Day | Stephen McDonogh | ||
| Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower | Matthew Torne, Mark Rinehart, and Joe Piscatella | ||
| The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Teddy Kunhardt and George Kunhardt | ||
| 2018 (30th) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville, Nicholas Ma, and Caryn Capotosto | [12][13] |
| The Dawn Wall | Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer, and Philipp Manderla | ||
| Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, and Shannon Dill | ||
| Hal | Christine Beebe, Jonathan Lynch, and Brian Morrow | ||
| Into the Okavango | Neil Gelinas | ||
| RBG | Betsy West and Julie Cohen | ||
| Three Identical Strangers | Becky Read and Grace Hughes-Hallett | ||
| 2019 (31st) | Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller and Thomas Petersen | [14][15] |
| Advocate | Philippe Bellaïche and Rachel Leah Jones | ||
| American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, and Jeff Reichert | ||
| The Cave | Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjaer | ||
| For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab | ||
| Honeyland | Atanas Georgiev and Ljubomir Stefanov | ||
| One Child Nation | Christoph Jörg, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, Nanfu Wang, and Jialing Zhan |
2020s
| Year | Film | Producer(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (32nd) | My Octopus Teacher | Craig Foster | [16] |
| David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Jonnie Hughes | ||
| Dick Johnson Is Dead | Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny, and Marilyn Ness | ||
| Softie | Toni Kamau and Sam Soko | ||
| A Thousand Cuts | Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn | ||
| Time | Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, and Garrett Bradley | ||
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw | ||
| 2021 (33rd) | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Joseph Patel, David Dinerstein, and Robert Fyvolent | [17] [18][19] |
| Ascension | Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, and Nathan Truesdell | ||
| The First Wave | |||
| Flee | |||
| In the Same Breath | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn | ||
| The Rescue | |||
| Simple as Water | Robin Hessman and Megan Mylan | ||
| Writing with Fire | Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh | ||
| 2022 (34th) | Navalny | Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris | [20][21] [22] |
| All That Breathes | Aman Mann, Shaunak Sen, and Teddy Leifer | ||
| Descendant | Margaret Brown, Kyle Martin, and Essie Chambers | ||
| Fire of Love | Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, and Ina Fichman | ||
| Nothing Compares | Eleanor Emptage and Michael Mallie | ||
| Retrograde | Matthew Heineman and Caitlin McNally | ||
| The Territory | Sigrid Dyekjaer, Will Miller, Lizzie Gillett, Darren Aronofsky, Gabriel Uchida, and Alex Pritz | ||
| 2023 (35th) | American Symphony | Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman, and Joedan Okun | [23][24] |
| 20 Days in Mariupol | |||
| Beyond Utopia | |||
| The Disappearance of Shere Hite | |||
| Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | |||
| Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) |
Multiple nominations and wins
| Wins | Nominations | Name (Year) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | Simon Chinn (2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018) |
| 1 | 3 | Matthew Heineman (2017, 2022, 2023) |
| 2 | Alex Gibney (2010, 2013) | |
| James Gay-Rees (2011, 2015) | ||
| Lauren Domino (2020, 2023) | ||
| Shane Boris (2022) | ||
| 0 | 5 | Julie Goldman (2009, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020) |
| 3 | John Battsek (2009, 2010, 2014) | |
| Sigrid Dyekjær (2015, 2019, 2022) | ||
| 2 | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (2015, 2018) | |
| Jimmy Chin (2015, 2018) | ||
| Christopher Clements (2019, 2020) | ||
| Carolyn Hepburn (2019, 2020) |
References
- ^ "2008 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2009 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2010 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2011 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2012 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2013 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2014 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2015 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2016 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2017 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2018 PGA Award Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "2019 PGA Awards Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
- ^ McNary, Dave (January 4, 2019). "Producers Guild Awards Nominees Include 'Black Panther,' 'A Star Is Born,' 'Vice'". Variety. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
- ^ Crist, Allison; Keegan, Rebecca; Gardner, Chris; Howard, Annie (January 18, 2020). "PGA Awards: '1917' Named Outstanding Motion Picture". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
- ^ "Documentary Motion Picture Nominees Announced For 2020 Producers Guild Awards". Producers Guild of America. November 19, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
- ^ Davis, Clayton; Shafer, Ellise (March 24, 2021). "'Nomadland' Wins Top Film Prize at Producers Guild Awards, Likely Locking It Up at the Oscars". Variety. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ Donnelly, Matt (March 19, 2022). "'CODA,' 'Succession' Take Top Prizes at Producers Guild Awards". Variety. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
- ^ Pedersen, Erik (January 27, 2022). "PGA Awards Nominations: 'Licorice Pizza', 'Don't Look Up', 'Dune', 'King Richard' & 'CODA' Among Pics Vying For Marquee Prize". Deadline. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Pond, Steve (December 10, 2021). "'Ascension,' 'Flee' and 'Summer of Soul' Land Producers Guild Documentary Nominations". TheWrap. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
- ^ "Producers Guild of America Awards Celebrates Everything Everywhere All At Once, White Lotus, The Bear, Navalny & more with Top Honors" (Press release). Los Angeles: Producers Guild of America. February 25, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
- ^ Chuba, Kirsten; Lewis, Hilary (February 25, 2023). "PGA Awards: Everything Everywhere All at Once Wins Top Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
- ^ Davis, Clayton (December 12, 2022). "National Geographic Dominates PGA Award Documentary Film Nominees with Fire of Love, Retrograde and The Territory". Variety. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ "The Producers Guild of America Awards Oppenheimer, Succession, BEEF, The Bear, American Symphony Top Honors at the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards" (Press release). Los Angeles, CA: Producers Guild of America. February 25, 2024. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
- ^ Pedersen, Erik (December 12, 2023). "Producers Guild Awards Reveals Documentary Film Nominations". Deadline. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
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