Critics' Choice Documentary Award Nominations

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) announced the nominees for the second annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards on Monday, October 9, and Ceyda Torun’s cat-centric film Kedi leads with four nominations. The winners will be presented at a gala event on Thursday, November 2, 2017 at BRIC, in Brooklyn, New York. Read through for the full list of nominations.

Best Documentary Feature

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
93%

Beware the Slenderman
85%

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
100%

California Typewriter
100%

Chasing Coral
100%

City of Ghosts
98%

Cries From Syria
100%

Dawson City: Frozen Time
100%

Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)
100%

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
97%

Faces Places
99%

Jane
98%

Kedi
98%

Spettacolo
93%

Strong Island
100%

Best Direction of a Documentary Feature

Evgeny Afineevsky

Cries From Syria
100%

Amir Bar-Lev

Long Strange Trip
100%

Matthew Heineman

City of Ghosts
98%

Bill Morrison

Dawson City: Frozen Time
100%

Doug Nichol

California Typewriter
100%

Jeff Orlowski

Chasing Coral
100%

Irene Taylor Brodsky

Beware the Slenderman
85%

Ceyda Torun

Kedi
98%

Agnès Varda & JR

Faces Places
99%

Frederick Wiseman

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
97%

Best First Documentary Feature

Doug Nichol

California Typewriter
100%

Ceyda Torun

Kedi
98%

Zaradasht Ahmed

Nowhere to Hide
100%

Amanda Lipitz

Step
96%

Yance Ford

Strong Island
100%

Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis

Whose Streets?
98%

Best Political Documentary

11/8/16
77%

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
93%

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
80%

City of Ghosts
98%

Dolores
98%

The Reagan Show
80%

Best Limited Documentary Series (TV/Streaming)

The Defiant Ones
100%

Five Came Back
98%

The Keepers
97%

The Nineties

Planet Earth II
100%

The Vietnam War
96%

Best Ongoing Documentary Series (TV/Streaming)

30 for 30

American Masters

Frontline

Independent Lens

POV

VICE

Best Song in a Documentary

“Truth to Power”

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
80%

“Tell Me How Long”

Chasing Coral
100%

“Prayers for This World”

Cries From Syria
100%

“Best I Can”

Dina
96%

“Dancing Through the Wreckage”

Served Like a Girl
100%

“Jump”

Step
96%

Best Sports Documentary

AlphaGo
100%

Disgraced

Icarus
92%

Speed Sisters
92%

Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
74%

Trophy
96%

Best Music Documentary

Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
82%

Contemporary Color
71%

Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)
100%

I Called Him Morgan
96%

Long Strange Trip
100%

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
91%

Most Compelling Living Subject Documentary

The Cats of Istanbul

Kedi
98%

Etty

Al Gore 

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
80%

Laird Hamilton

Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
74%

Dolores Huerta

Dolores
98%

Gigi Lazzarato 

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
77%

The Sung Family 

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
93%

Most Inovative Documentary

78/52
88%

Casting JonBenét
81%

Dawson City: Frozen Time
100%

Karl Marx City
96%

Kedi
98%

Last Men in Aleppo
97%