Penyutradaraan Dokumenter Menakjubkan (Directors Guild of America Award)

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

• 1991: Barbara Kopple – American Dream
  • Alan Raymond – Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
  • Albert Maysles – Soldiers of Music: Rostorpovitch Returns to Russia
  • Eleanor Coppola – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
• 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
  • Susan Steinberg – Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
  • Susan Raymond – I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
  • Bruce Kuerten – From Fields of Promise
  • Shari Cookson – Skinheads Usa: Soldiers in the Race War
• 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

• 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

• 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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