1st Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards 2018

The 1st Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were presented on November 3, 2016 at the BRIC House in Brooklyn, New York, honoring the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking and non-fiction television.^[1] This was the inaugural ceremony for these awards, presented by the Critics Choice Association. The nominees were announced on October 10, 2016.^[2]^[3]

Winners and nominees

Best Documentary Feature O.J.: Made in America 13th Cameraperson Fire at Sea Gleason Life, Animated Tickled Tower Weiner The Witness	Best Direction for a Documentary Feature Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America Ron Howard – The Beatles: Eight Days a Week Kirsten Johnson – Cameraperson Keith Maitland – Tower Clay Tweel – Gleason Roger Ross Williams – Life, Animated
Best Documentary Feature (TV/Streaming) 13th Fantastic Lies Amanda Knox Audrie & Daisy Before the Flood Holy Hell Into the Inferno Jim: The James Foley Story Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Rats	Best Direction (TV/Streaming) Ava DuVernay – 13th Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato – Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn – Amanda Knox Werner Herzog – Into the Inferno Morgan Spurlock – Rats Fisher Stevens – Before the Flood
Best First Documentary Feature Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg – Weiner Otto Bell – The Eagle Huntress David Farrier and Dylan Reeve – Tickled Adam Irving – Off the Rails James D. Solomon – The Witness Nanfu Wang – Hooligan Sparrow	Best Political Documentary 13th O.J.: Made in America Audrie & Daisy Newtown Weiner Zero Days
Best First Feature (TV Streaming) Everything is Copy Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Holy Hell Mavis! My Beautiful Broken Brain Team Foxcatcher	Best Limited Documentary Series O.J.: Made in America The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth The Eighties The Hunt Jackie Robinson Soundbreaking: Stories From the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music
Best Ongoing Documentary Series 30 for 30 Frontline Last Chance U Morgan Spurlock Inside Man POV This Is Life with Lisa Ling	Best Sports Documentary O.J.: Made in America Fantastic Lies Dark Horse The Eagle Huntress Gleason Jackie Robinson Keepers of the Game
Best Music Documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week Gimme Danger Miss Sharon Jones! The Music of Strangers Presenting Princess Shaw We Are X	Most Innovative Documentary Tower Cameraperson Kate Plays Christine Life, Animated Nuts Under the Sun
Best Song in a Documentary *“I’m Still Here” – Miss Sharon Jones!* – Written by Sharon Jones, Performed by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings** “Angel by the Wings” – The Eagle Huntress – Written and performed by Sia “The Empty Chair” – Jim: The James Foley Story – Written by Sting and J. Ralph, Performed by Sting “Flicker” – Audrie & Daisy – Written and performed by Tori Amos “Hoping and Healing” – Gleason – Written and performed by Mike McCready “Letters to the Free” – 13th – Written by Common, Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper – Performed by Common featuring Bilal

Films by multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
5	O.J.: Made in America
5	13th
4	Gleason
3	Audrie & Daisy
	Life, Animated
	Cameraperson
	The Eagle Huntress
	Towe
	Weiner
2	Holy Hell
	Amanda Knox
	Rats
	The Witness
	Into the Inferno
	Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
	The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
	Jim: The James Foley Story
	Miss Sharon Jones!
	Tickled
	Jackie Robinson
	Fantastic Lies
	Before the Flood

The following films received multiple awards:

Wins	Film
4	O.J.: Made in America
3	13th

References

^ Tapley, Kristopher (November 3, 2016). "'O.J.: Made in America,' '13th' Top First Annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards". Variety. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ Hammond, Pete (October 10, 2016). "'13th,' 'O.J.: Made In America' & 'Gleason' Lead Nominations For First Critics' Choice Documentary Awards". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ Erbland, Kate (October 10, 2016). "Inaugural Critics' Choice Documentary Awards Heap Nominations on '13th,' 'O.J.: Made In America' and 'Gleason'". Indiewire. Retrieved November 10, 2020.