The Inaugural Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards were given out on 3 November 2016 to honor documentary features and non-fiction television.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (Theatrical Feature)

Winner:
O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)

• 13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)
• O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
• Cameraperson (Janus Films/Fork Films/Big Mouth Productions)
• Fire at Sea (Kino Lorber/Stemal Entertainment/21 Unofilm/Cinecittà Luce/Rai Cinema/Les Films d’Ici/Arte France Cinéma)
• Gleason (Open Road/Amazon/Exhibit A/Dear Rivers)
• Life, Animated (A&E IndieFilms/The Orchard/Motto Pictures/Roger Ross Williams Productions)
• Tickled (Magnolia/A Ticklish Tale/Fumes Production/Horseshoe Films/HBO)
• Tower (Kino Lorber/ITVS/Meredith Vieira Productions/Go-Valley/Killer Impact)
• Weiner (Sundance Selects/Motto Pictures/Edgeline Films)
• The Witness (FilmRise/Five More Minutes Productions)

BEST DIRECTION OF A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (Theatrical Feature)

Winner:
Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)

• Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
• Ron Howard – The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (White Horse Pictures/Imagine Entertainment/Apple Corps/ Hulu)
• Kirsten Johnson – Cameraperson (Janus Films/Fork Films/Big Mouth Productions)
• Keith Maitland – Tower (Kino Lorber/ITVS/Meredith Vieira Productions/Go-Valley/Killer Impact)
• Clay Tweel – Gleason (Open Road/Amazon/Exhibit A/Dear Rivers)
• Roger Ross Williams – Life, Animated (A&E IndieFilms/The Orchard/Motto Pictures/Roger Ross Williams Productions)

BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (Theatrical Feature)

Winner:
Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg – Weiner (Sundance Selects/Motto Pictures/Edgeline Films)

• Otto Bell – The Eagle Huntress (Sony Pictures Classics/Kissaki Films/Stacey Reiss Productions/Warrior Poets)
• David Farrier and Dylan Reeve – Tickled (Magnolia/A Ticklish Tale/Fumes Production/Horseshoe Films)
• Adam Irving – Off the Rails (The Film Collaborative/Zipper Bros Films)
• Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg – Weiner (Sundance Selects/Motto Pictures/Edgeline Films)
• James D. Solomon – The Witness (FilmRise/Five More Minutes Productions)
• Nanfu Wang – Hooligan Sparrow (The Film Collaborative/Little Horse Crossing the River)

BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY

Winner:
13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)

• 13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)
• O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
• Audrie & Daisy (Netflix/Actual Films)
• Newtown (Abramorama/Mile 22/Independent Television Service)
• Weiner (Sundance Selects/Motto Pictures/Edgeline Films)
• Zero Days (Magnolia/Jigsaw Productions/Participant Media)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (TV/STREAMING)

Winner:
13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)

• 13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)
• Fantastic Lies (ESPN/Lightbox)
• Amanda Knox (Netflix/Plus Pictures)
• Audrie & Daisy (Netflix/Actual Films)
• Before the Flood (National Geographic/Appian Way/Insurgent Docs/RatPac Documentary Films)
• Holy Hell (CNN/WRA Productions/ *Very Special Projects/Whitewater Films)
• Into the Inferno (Netflix/Herzog-Film/Matter of Fact Media/Spring Films)
• Jim: The James Foley Story (HBO/Kunhardt Films)
• Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (HBO/Film Manufacturers/World of Wonder Productions)
• Rats (Discovery Channel/Dakota Group/Submarine Entertainment/Warrior Poets)

BEST DIRECTOR (TV/STREAMING)

Winner:
Ava DuVernay – 13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)

• Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato – Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (HBO/Film Manufacturers/World of Wonder Productions)
• Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn – Amanda Knox (Netflix/Plus Pictures)
• Ava DuVernay – 13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)
• Werner Herzog – Into the Inferno (Netflix/Herzog-Film/Matter of Fact Media/Spring Films)
• Morgan Spurlock – Rats (Discovery Channel/Dakota Group/Submarine Entertainment/Warrior Poets)
• Fisher Stevens – Before the Flood (National Geographic/Appian Way/Insurgent Docs/RatPac Documentary Films)

BEST FIRST FEATURE (TV/STREAMING)

Winner:
(TIE)
Everything is Copy – Jacob Bernstein and Nick Hooker (HBO/Loveless)
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four – Deborah Esquenazi (Investigation Discovery/Motto Pictures/Naked Edge Films)

• Everything is Copy – Jacob Bernstein and Nick Hooker (HBO/Loveless)
• Holy Hell – Will Allen (CNN/WRA Productions)
• Mavis! – Jessica Edwards (HBO/Film First Co.)
• My Beautiful Broken Brain – Sophie Robinson and Lotje Sodderland (Netflix)
• Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four – Deborah Esquenazi (Investigation Discovery/Motto Pictures/Naked Edge Films)
• Team Foxcatcher – Jon Greenhalgh (Netflix/Hattasan Productions/Madrose Productions)

BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Winner:
O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)

• O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
• The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth (Showtime/Left/Right)
• The Eighties (CNN)
• The Hunt (BBC America/Silverback Films/NDR Naturfilm)
• Jackie Robinson (PBS/Florentine Films)
• Soundbreaking: Stories From the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (PBS/Higher Ground/Show of Force)

BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Winner:
30 for 30 (ESPN)

• 30 for 30 (ESPN)
• Frontline (PBS)
• Last Chance U (Netflix)
• Morgan Spurlock Inside Man (CNN)
• POV (PBS)
• This Is Life with Lisa Ling (CNN)

BEST SONG IN A DOCUMENTARY

Winner:
“I’m Still Here” – Miss Sharon Jones! – Written by Sharon Jones – Performed by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Cabin Creek Films/Starz Digital Media)

• “Angel by the Wings” – The Eagle Huntress – Written by Sia – Performed by Sia (Sony Pictures Classics/Kissaki Films/Stacey Reiss Productions/Warrior Poets)
• “The Empty Chair” – Jim: The James Foley Story – Written by Sting and J. Ralph – Performed by Sting (HBO/Kunhardt Films)
• “Flicker” – Audrie & Daisy – Written by Tori Amos – Performed by Tori Amos (Netflix/Actual Films)
• “Hoping and Healing” – Gleason – Written by Mike McCready – Performed by Mike McCready (Open Road/Amazon/Exhibit A/Dear Rivers)
• “I’m Still Here” – Miss Sharon Jones! – Written by Sharon Jones – Performed by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Cabin Creek Films/Starz Digital Media)
• “Letters to the Free” – 13^th– Written by Common, Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper – Performed by Common featuring Bilal (Netflix/Kandoo Films)

BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY

Winner:
O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)

• Fantastic Lies (ESPN/Lightbox)
• O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
• Dark Horse (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Eagle Huntress (Sony Pictures Classics/Kissaki Films/Stacey Reiss Productions/Warrior Poets)
• Gleason (Open Road/Amazon/Exhibit A/Dear Rivers)
• Jackie Robinson (PBS/Florentine Films)
• Keepers of the Game (Tribeca Digital Studios/Flatbush Pictures)

BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY

Winner:
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (White Horse Pictures/Imagine Entertainment/Apple Corps/ Hulu)

• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (White Horse Pictures/Imagine Entertainment/Apple Corps/ Hulu)
• Gimme Danger (Magnolia/Amazon)
• Miss Sharon Jones! (Cabin Creek Films/Starz Digital Media)
• The Music of Strangers (Participant Media/Tremolo Productions/HBO/The Orchard)
• Presenting Princess Shaw (Magnolia)
• We Are X (Drafthouse Films)

MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY

Winner:
Tower (Kino Lorber/ITVS/Meredith Vieira Productions/Go-Valley/Killer Impact)

• Cameraperson(Janus Films/Fork Films/Big Mouth Productions)
• Kate Plays Christine (Grasshopper Film/4^thRow Films/Faliro House Productions/Prewar Cinema Productions)
• Life, Animated (A&E IndieFilms/The Orchard/Motto Pictures/Roger Ross Williams Productions)
• Nuts (Amazon/mTuckman Media/Cartuna/Gland Power Films)
• Tower (Kino Lorber/ITVS/Meredith Vieira Productions/Go-Valley/Killer Impact)
• Under The Sun (Icarus Films/Vertov Studio/Saxonia Entertainment/Hypermarket Film)

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