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• Apollo 11 (Neon)
  • American Factory (Netflix)
  • The Biggest Little Farm (Neon)
  • The Cave (National Geographic)
  • Honeyland (Neon)
  • The Kingmaker (Showtime)
  • Knock Down the House (Netflix)
  • Leaving Neverland (HBO)
  • Maiden (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • One Child Nation (Amazon Studios)
  • They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)

• Peter Jackson – They Shall Not Grow Old
• Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert – American Factory
  • Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts – For Sama
  • John Chester – The Biggest Little Farm
  • Feras Fayyad – The Cave
  • Todd Douglas Miller – Apollo 11
  • Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang – One Child Nation

• Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov – Honeyland
  • Midge Costin – Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
  • A.J. Eaton – David Crosby: Remember My Name
  • Pamela B. Green – Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
  • Richard Miron – For the Birds
  • Garret Price – Love, Antosha

• They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)
  • Aquarela (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Magnolia)
  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Netflix)
  • Screwball (Greenwich)
  • Serendipity (Cohen Media)

• Apollo 11 (Neon)
  • Amazing Grace (Neon)
  • Maiden (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Mike Wallace Is Here (Magnolia)
  • Pavarotti (CBS Films)
  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Netflix)
  • They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)
  • What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (HBO)

• Period. End of Sentence. (Netflix)
  • The Chapel at the Border (Atlantic Documentaries)
  • Death Row Doctor (The New York Times Op-Docs)
  • In the Absence (Field of Vision)
  • Lost World
  • Mack Wrestles (ESPN)
  • The Polaroid Job (The New York Times Op-Docs)
  • Sam and the Plant Next Door (The Guardian)
  • The Unconditional
  • The Waiting Room (The Guardian)

• American Factory (Netflix)
  • The Edge of Democracy (Netflix)
  • Hail Satan? (Magnolia)
  • The Kingmaker (Showtime)
  • Knock Down the House (Netflix)
  • One Child Nation (Amazon Studios)

• Maiden (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (Entertainment Studios)
  • Diego Maradona (HBO)
  • Rodman: For Better or Worse (ESPN)
  • The Spy Behind Home Plate (Ciesla Foundation)
  • What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (HBO)

• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Magnolia)
  • David Crosby: Remember My Name (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • The Kingmaker (Showtime)
  • Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Greenwich)
  • Love, Antosha (Lurker Films)
  • Mike Wallace Is Here (Magnolia)
  • Pavarotti (CBS Films)

• Apollo 11 (Neon)
  • Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Kino Lorber)
  • Aquarela (Sony Pictures Classic)
  • The Biggest Little Farm (Neon)
  • The Elephant Queen (Apple)
  • Honeyland (Neon)
  • Penguins (Disney)
  • Sea of Shadows (National Geographic)

• Western Stars – Bruce Springsteen, narrator and writer
  • Anthropocene: The Human Epoch – Alicia Vikander, narrator; Jennifer Baichwal, writer
  • The Biggest Little Farm – John Chester, Molly Chester, narrators; John Chester, writer
  • The Edge of Democracy – Petra Costa, narrator; Petra Costa, Carol Pires, David Barker, Moara Passoni, writers
  • The Elephant Queen – Chiwetel Ejiofor, narrator; Mark Deeble, writer
  • For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab, narrator and writer
  • Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People – Adam Driver, narrator; Oren Rudavsky and Bob Seidman, writers
  • One Child Nation – Nanfu Wang, narrator and writer

• Dr. Amani Ballor – The Cave
• David Crosby – David Crosby: Remember My Name
• Tracy Edwards – Maiden
• Imelda Marcos – The Kingmaker
• Hatidze Muratova – Honeyland
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin – Knock Down the House
• Linda Ronstadt – Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer – Ask Dr. Ruth

• Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Greenwich)
  • Amazing Grace (Neon)
  • David Crosby: Remember My Name (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (Abramorama)
  • Pavarotti (CBS Films)
  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Netflix)
  • Western Stars (Warner Bros.)

• Matt Morton – Apollo 11
  • Jeff Beal – The Biggest Little Farm
  • Matthew Herbert – The Cave
  • Plan 9 – They Shall Not Grow Old
  • H. Scott Salinas – Sea of Shadows
  • Eicca Toppinen – Aquarela

• John Chester – The Biggest Little Farm
  • Ben Bernhard and Viktor Kossakovsky – Aquarela
  • Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma – Honeyland
  • Nicholas de Pencier – Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
  • Muhammed Khair Al Shami, Ammar Suleiman, and Mohammad Eyad – The Cave
  • Richard Ladkani – Sea of Shadows

• Todd Douglas Miller – Apollo 11
  • Georg Michael Fischer and Verena Schönauer – Sea of Shadows
  • Jabez Olssen – They Shall Not Grow Old
  • Amy Overbeck – The Biggest Little Farm
  • Lindsay Utz – American Factory
  • Nanfu Wang – One Child Nation

The following films received multiple nominations:

The following films received multiple awards: