Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film

The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Winners

1980s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
1980	Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?	Ross McElwee
1981	Diaries
1982	The Atomic Cafe	Jayne Loader and Kevin Rafferty
1983	Say Amen, Somebody	George T. Nierenberg
1984	The Times of Harvey Milk	Rob Epstein
1985	Shoah	Claude Lanzmann
1986	Mother Teresa	Ann and Jeanette Petrie
1987	Marlene	Maximilian Schell
1988	No information
1989	Let's Get Lost	Bruce Weber

1990s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
1990	No information
1991	Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
1992	No information
1993	Visions of Light	Arnold Glassman and Todd McCarthy
1994	Hoop Dreams	Steve James
1995	Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
1996	Anne Frank Remembered	Jon Blair
1997	Fast, Cheap & Out of Control	Errol Morris
1998	The Big One	Michael Moore
1999	Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary	S.R. Bindler

2000s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2000	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
2001	The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse)	Agnès Varda
2002	The Kid Stays in the Picture	Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
2003	Capturing the Friedmans	Andrew Jarecki
2004	Control Room	Jehane Noujaim
2005	Murderball	Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
2006	Deliver Us from Evil	Amy Berg
	Shut Up & Sing	Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck
2007	Crazy Love	Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens
2008	Man on Wire	James Marsh
2009	The Cove	Louie Psihoyos

2010s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2010	Marwencol	Jeff Malmberg
2011	Project Nim	James Marsh
2012	How to Survive a Plague	David France
2013	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer
2014	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras
2015	Amy	Asif Kapadia