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.
An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for Best Documentary of 2006.
The 2015 Best Documentary - Feature Oscar went to Citizenfour.
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary Feature (Alex Gibney and Eva Orner).
The 2015 Best Documentary - Short Subject Oscar went to Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1.
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The Academy Award for Best Picture of 2012 went to "Argo."
German Film Award for Best Documentary Film was created in 2000.
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.
Jesus Was a Moonwalker A Documentary Film - 2012 was released on: USA: May 2012 USA: October 2012 (Silent River Film Festival) USA: November 2012 (Southern Appalachian International Film Festival)
Go Public A Documentary Film Project - 2012 was released on: USA: 15 August 2012 (Pasadena, California)
There were actaully two films that contain o-s-c-a-r.One is Best Picture winner Chariots of Fire.The other is the Best Documentary Short winner Close Harmony.
The award did not go to a country, but the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary Short went to "Saving Face," about a plastic surgeon who aids Pakistani women who have been attacked with acid. The film was directed by Sharmeen Obaid, who became Pakistan's first-ever Academy Award winner, and American Daniel Junge.