Penyutradaraan Dokumenter Menakjubkan (Directors Guild of America Award)

Prestasi Penyutradaraan Menakjubkan dalam Dokumenter (Directors Guild of America Award) telah dianugerahi sejak 1991.

Pemenang dan nominee

1990an

1991: Barbara Kopple – American Dream
1992: Joseph A. Berlinger dan Bruce J. Sinofsky – Brother's Keeper
- Mark Stouffer – Braving Alaska
- Ric Burns – The Donner Party
1993: Barbara Kopple – Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
1994: Steve James – Hoop Dreams
- Bethany Yarrow – Mama Awethu!
- Susan Todd & Andrew Young – Lives in Hazard
- Jyll Johnstone – Martha & Ethel
- Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine – Frosh: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm
1995: Terry Zwigoff – Crumb
- Deborah Hoffmann – Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
- Freida Mock – Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
- Bill Van Daalen – Indianapolis: Ship of Doom
- Helen Whitney – Richard Avedon: Darkness & Light
1996: Al Pacino – Looking for Richard
- Leon Gast – When We Were Kings
- Jeanne Jordan – Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
- Isaac Mizrahi – Slaughter, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
- Bruce Sinofsky And Joseph Berlinger – Paradise Lost
1997: Michael Uys dan Lexy Lovell – Riding the Rails
- Ellen Hovde – Liberty! The American Revolution: "Blows Must Decide"
- John O'Hagan – Wonderland
- Michele Ohayon – Colors Straight Up
- Peter Rosen – First Person Singular: I.M. Pei
1998: Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert dan Gordon Quinn – Vietnam, Long Time Coming
- Matthew Diamond – Dancemaker
- Susan Lacy – Leonard Bernstein, Reaching for the Note
- Nigel Noble – Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
- Kyra Thompson – Dying to Tell the Story
1999: Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen – On the Ropes
- Barry Blaustein – Beyond the Mat
- Marc Levin – Thug Life In DC
- Errol Morris – Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- Gary Weimberg – The Double Life Of Ernesto Gomez

2000an

2000: Chuck Braverman – High School Boot Camp
- Laurie Collyer – Nuyorican Dream
- David DeVries – The True Story Of The Bridge On The River Kwai
- Mark Lewis – The Natural History Of The Chicken
- Michael Mierendorf – Broken Child
2001: Chris Hegedus dan Jehane Noujaim – Startup.com
- Charles Braverman – Rocky and Rolanda
- Stephen Ives – Amato: A Love Affair with Opera
- Deborah Hoffmann dan Frances Reid – Long Night's Journey Into Day
- Martin J. Spinelli – Life on Jupiter
2002: Tasha Oldham – The Smith Family
- Charles Braverman – Bottom of the Ninth
- Rebecca Cammisa dan Rob Fruchtman – Sister Helen
- Malcolm Clarke dan Stuart Sender – Prisoner of Paradise
- Leah Mahan – Sweet Old Song, P.O.V
2003: Nathaniel Kahn – My Architect
- Sam Green and Bill Siegel – The Weather Underground
- Andrew Jarecki – Capturing the Friedmans
- Errol Morris – The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
- José Padilha – Ônibus 174
2004: Byambasuren Davaa dan Luigi Falorni – Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The Story of the Weeping Camel)
- Zana Briski dan Ross Kauffman – Born into Brothels
- Ross McElwee – Bright Leaves
- Michael Moore – Fahrenheit 9/11
- Jehane Noujaim – Control Room
2005: Werner Herzog – Grizzly Man
- Kief Davidson dan Richard Ladkani – The Devil's Miner
- Sean McAllister – The Liberace of Baghdad
- Rupert Murray – Unknown White Male
- Brent and Craig Renaud – Off to War
2006: Arūnas Matelis – Before Flying Back to the Earth
- Amy Berg – Deliver Us From Evil
- Michael Glawogger – Workingman's Death
- James Longley – Iraq In Fragments
- Jean-Henri Meunier – Ici Najac, A Vous La Terre
2007: Asger Leth – Ghosts of Cité Soleil
- Ken Burns dan Lynn Novick – The War
- Alex Gibney – Taxi to the Dark Side
- Richard Robbins – Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
- Barbet Schroeder – Terror's Advocate (L'avocat de la terreur)
2008: Ari Folman – Vals Im Bashir
- Peter Gilbert, Steve James – At the Death House Door
- Elizabeth Farnsworth, Patricio Lanfranco Leverton – The Judge and the General
- James Marsh – Man on Wire
- Gonzalo Arijón – Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains
2009: Louie Psihoyos – The Cove
- Sacha Gervasi – Anvil! The True Story of Anvil
- Mai Iskander – Garbage Dreams
- Robert Kenner – Food, Inc.
- Geoffrey Smith – The English Surgeon
- Agnes Varda – The Beaches of Agnès

2010an

2010: Charles Ferguson – Inside Job
- Lixin Fan – Last Train Home
- Alex Gibney – Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
- Davis Guggenheim – Waiting for "Superman"
- Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington – Restrepo
2011: James Marsh – Project Nim
- Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
- Steve James – The Interrupters
- Richard Press – Bill Cunningham New York
- Martin Scorsese – George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2012: Malik Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man
- Kirby Dick – The Invisible War
- David France – How to Survive a Plague
- Lauren Greenfield – The Queen of Versailles
- Alison Klayman – Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
2013: Jehane Noujaim – The Square
- Zachary Heinzerling – Cutie and the Boxer
- Joshua Oppenheimer – Jagal
- Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell
- Lucy Walker – The Crash Reel
2014: Laura Poitras – Citizenfour
- Dan Krauss – The Kill Team
- John Maloof dan Charlie Siskel – Finding Vivian Maier
- Jesse Moss – The Overnighters
- Orlando von Einsiedel – Virunga
2015: Matthew Heineman – Cartel Land
- Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Meru
- Liz Garbus – What Happened, Miss Simone?
- Alex Gibney – Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
- Asif Kapadia – Amy
2016: Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America
- Otto Bell – The Eagle Huntress
- Josh Kriegman dan Elyse Steinberg – Weiner
- Raoul Peck – I Am Not Your Negro
- Roger Ross Williams – Life, Animated

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