3rd Annual Critics Choice Award Documentary Nominees

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Crime + Punishment
Dark Money
Free Solo
Hal
Hitler’s Hollywood
Minding the Gap
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Wild Wild Country
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
America to Me
Dirty Money
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Flint Town
One Strange Rock
The Fourth Estate
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
Wild Wild Country

BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIES
30 for 30
American Masters
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Frontline
Independent Lens
Making a Murderer
POV
The History of Comedy

BEST DIRECTOR
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Free Solo
Bing Liu – Minding the Gap
Morgan Neville – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Kimberly Reed – Dark Money
Rüdiger Suchsland – Hitler’s Hollywood
Tim Wardle – Three Identical Strangers
Chapman Way and Maclain Way – Wild Wild Country

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster – Science Fair
Heather Lenz – Kusama – Infinity
Bing Liu – Minding the Gap
Stephen Nomura Schible – Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Amy Scott – Hal
Rudy Valdez – The Sentence

BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
RBG
Dark Money
Fahrenheit 11/9
Flint Town
Hitler’s Hollywood
John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls )
The Fourth Estate

BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
Andre the Giant
Being Serena
Free Solo
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Minding the Gap
The Workers Cup

BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Bad Reputation
David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow
Quincy
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Whitney

MOST COMPELLING LIVING SUBJECT OF A DOCUMENTARY
Scotty Bowers – Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RBG
Alex Honnold – Free Solo
Joan Jett – Bad Reputation
Quincy Jones – Quincy
David Kellman and Bobby Shafran – Three Identical Strangers
John McEnroe – John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Leon Vitali – Filmworker

MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY
306 Hollywood
Free Solo
Hitler’s Hollywood
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Wild Wild Country
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?=

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
306 Hollywood
The Dawn Wall
Free Solo
Minding the Gap m
Pandas
Wild Wild Country

BEST EDITING
Dark Money
Filmworker
Free Solo
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?