The 2nd Annual Critics Choice Documentary Award Nominations

Best Documentary
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Beware the Slenderman
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Chasing Coral
City of Ghosts
Cries From Syria
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Faces Places
Jane
Kedi
One of Us
Spettacolo
Strong Island

Best Director
Evgeny Afineevsky – Cries from Syria
Amir Bar-Lev – Long Strange Trip
Matthew Heineman – City of Ghosts
Bill Morrison – Dawson City: Frozen Time (
Doug Nichol – California Typewriter
Jeff Orlowski – Chasing Coral
Irene Taylor Brodsky – Beware the Slenderman
Ceyda Torun – Kedi
Agnès Varda & JR – Faces Places
Frederick Wiseman – Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Best First Documentary
California Typewriter
Kedi
Nowhere to Hide
Step
Strong Island
Whose Streets?

Best Political Documentary
11/8/16
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
City of Ghosts
Dolores
The Reagan Show

Best Sports Documentary
AlphaGo
Disgraced
Icarus
Speed Sisters
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Trophy

Best Music Documentary
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of our Live
Contemporary Color
Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis
I Called Him Morgan
Long Strange Trip
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary
The Cats of Istanbul – Kedi
Etty – One of Us
Al Gore – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power \
Laird Hamilton – Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Dolores Huerta – Dolores
Gigi Lazzarato – This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
The Sung Family – Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Most Innovative Documentary
78/52
Casting JonBenet
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Karl Marx City
Kedi
Last Men in Aleppo

Best Song in a Documentary
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – “Truth to Power” – OneRepublic
Chasing Coral – “Tell Me How Long” – Kristen Bell
Cries From Syria – “Prayers for This World” – Cher
Dina – “Best I Can” – Michael Cera featuring Sharon Van Etten
Served Like a Girl – “Dancing Through the Wreckage” – Pat Benatar
Step – “Jump” – Cynthia Erivo

Best Limited Documentary Series (TV/Streaming)
The Defiant Ones
Five Came Back
The Keepers
The Nineties
Planet Earth II
The Vietnam War

Best Ongoing Documentary Series (TV/Streaming)
30 for 30
American Masters
Frontline
Independent Lens
POV
VICE