The film won the Golden Bear for Best Documentary at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.

In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

* Best Documentary of the Year awards for The Fog of War ( 2003 ): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D. C. Area Film Critics.

* New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics Best Documentary for The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )

The film, directed and produced by Silvio Sardi and narrated by Andy Garcia, won Best Documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival after a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Troubled Minds was also recognised locally with writer / director Dennis K. Smith winning the AWGIE Award for Best Documentary.

One of Anderson's early short films, Thursday's Children ( 1954 ), concerning the education of deaf children, made in collaboration with Guy Brenton, a friend from his Oxford days, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1954.

The latter was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short Subject.

The film was awarded Best Short Documentary at the Beijing International Movie Festival 2010 and Best Film about Real People at the Official Best of Fest 2010.

In 2012 his dance film Pina was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature of the 84th Academy Awards.

* 1954: Best Documentary, Features: The Living Desert ( 1953 )

* 1954: Best Documentary, Short Subjects: The Alaskan Eskimo ( 1953 )

* 1955: Best Documentary, Features: The Vanishing Prairie ( 1954 )

* 1956: Best Documentary, Short Subjects: Men Against the Arctic

Encounters at the End of the World won the award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Herzog's first nomination.

He was nominated by American Cinema Editors for Best Edited Documentary Film for Grizzly Man in 2005.

Grand Canyon wins an Oscar for Best Documentary Short.

However, it had some distribution in cinemas and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1966.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Category: Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners

That same year, he gave a typically energetic and revealing interview to Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew for Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ), a cinematic portrait of the maestro that was nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, Europe's equivalent of the Oscars.

* March 24 – The 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California with the film A Beautiful Mind winning Best Picture.

The film was a major critical and commercial success, and received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards.

The film was selected as India's official entry to the 74th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Washington's performance, a departure from his usual roles, was particularly praised and earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards.

* Best Foreign Language Film, 2002 74th Academy Awards

With the help of Arthur W. Saha, Wollheim also edited and published the popular " Annual World's Best Science Fiction " anthology from 1971 until his death.

* The 1972 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim ’ s World ’ s Best SF: Series One ) ( 1972 )

* The 1973 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Two ) ( 1973 )

* The 1974 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Three ) ( 1974 )

* The 1975 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Four ) ( 1975 )

* The 1976 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Five ) ( 1976 )

* The 1977 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Six ) ( 1977 )

* The 1978 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Seven ) ( 1978 )

* The 1979 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Eight ) ( 1979 )

* The 1980 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Nine ) ( 1980 )

* The 1981 Annual World's Best SF ( 1981 )

* The 1982 Annual World's Best SF ( 1982 )

* The 1983 Annual World's Best SF ( 1983 )

* The 1984 Annual World's Best SF ( 1984 )

* The 1985 Annual World's Best SF ( 1985 )

* The 1986 Annual World's Best SF ( 1986 )