Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First award	March 4, 1943 (for films released in 1942)
Most recent winner	Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham; No Other Land (2024)
Website	oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight.^[1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946.^[2] Copies of every winning film (along with copies of most nominees) are held by the Academy Film Archive.^[3]

^ Fisher, Bob (2012). "The Drive to Archive: Academy Pushes to Preserve Docs". International Documentary Association. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
^ 19th Academy Awards (1946): Nominees and Winners-Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell
^ "Academy Award-Winning Documentaries". Academy Film Archive. 4 September 2014.

[1] Fisher, Bob (2012). "The Drive to Archive: Academy Pushes to Preserve Docs". International Documentary Association. Retrieved January 4, 2018.

[2] 19th Academy Awards (1946): Nominees and Winners-Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell

[3] "Academy Award-Winning Documentaries". Academy Film Archive. 4 September 2014.

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