Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary Feature (Alex Gibney and Eva Orner).
Best Boy won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 1979.
An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for Best Documentary of 2006.
The 2015 Best Documentary - Feature Oscar went to Citizenfour.
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The first Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary was awarded in 1942.
Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry.Burt Lancaster won his only Best Actor award for playing the title character in "Elmer Gantry." He also received Best Actor nominations for "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "The Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962) and "Atlantic City" (1980).
She was the subject of the 2008 Oscar winning Short Documentary.
AACTA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary was created in 2009.
Winner: "Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner "No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins"Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara"War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
Undefeated won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2012. The documentary focused on a high school football team in Georgia and had not been considered the top contender for the prize.
1997 produced some movies that won Oscar awards. Some Oscar winners were, "When We Were Kings" for feature documentary, "Koyla", for foreign film, "The English Patient" for best picture, and "Quest", animated short film.
An Inconvenient Truth.