St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film

The St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film is an award given by the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, honoring the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking.

Winners

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2004	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore
2005	March of the Penguins	Luc Jacquet	The Aristocrats \|\| Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza Born into Brothels \|\| Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room \|\| Alex Gibney Grizzly Man \|\| Werner Herzog Mad Hot Ballroom \|\| Marilyn Agrelo Murderball \|\| Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill \|\| Judy Irvin
2006	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim	Deliver Us from Evil \|\| Amy J. Berg The Heart of the Game \|\| Ward Serrill Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers \|\| Robert Greenwald Why We Fight \|\| Eugene Jarecki
2007	Sicko	Michael Moore	In the Shadow of the Moon \|\| David Sington and Christopher Riley The King of Kong \|\| Seth Gordon Manufactured Landscapes \|\| Jennifer Baichwal No End in Sight \|\| Charles H. Ferguson
2008	Man on Wire	James Marsh	Body of War \|\| Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue Pray the Devil Back to Hell \|\| Gini Reticker Shine a Light \|\| Martin Scorsese Standard Operating Procedure \|\| Errol Morris
2009	Capitalism: A Love Story	Michael Moore	Anvil! The Story of Anvil \|\| Sacha Gervasi Food, Inc. \|\| Robert Kenner Good Hair \|\| Jeff Stilson Tyson \|\| James Toback

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2010	The Tillman Story	Amir Bar-Lev	A Film Unfinished \|\| Yael Hersonski Restrepo \|\| Tim Hetherington Waiting for "Superman" \|\| Davis Guggenheim Waking Sleeping Beauty \|\| Don Hahn
2011	Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey	Constance Marks	Tabloid \|\| Errol Morris (Runner-up) Buck \|\| Cindy Meehl Conan O'Brien Can't Stop \|\| Rodman Flender The Interrupters \|\| Steve James
2012	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry \|\| Alison Klayman (Runner-up) Bully \|\| Lee Hirsch (Runner-up) How to Survive a Plague \|\| David France (Runner-up) Jiro Dreams of Sushi \|\| David Gelb
2013	Blackfish	Gabriela Cowperthwaite	The Act of Killing \|\| Joshua Oppenheimer (Runner-up) Stories We Tell \|\| Sarah Polley (Runner-up) 20 Feet from Stardom \|\| Morgan Neville Muscle Shoals \|\| Greg 'Freddy' Camalier
2014	no award given
2015	Amy	Asif Kapadia	The Look of Silence \|\| Joshua Oppenheimer (Runner-up) Best of Enemies \|\| Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville Cartel Land \|\| Matthew Heineman The Hunting Ground \|\| Kirby Dick
2016	TBA	TBA	De Palma \|\| Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow The Eagle Huntress \|\| Otto Bell Gleason \|\| Clay Tweel I Am Not Your Negro \|\| Raoul Peck Weiner \|\| Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg

References

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