Year
|
Recipient(s)
|
Film
|
2023
|
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath
|
20 Days in Mariupol
|
2013
|
Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers
|
20 Feet from Stardom
|
1963
|
Federico Fellini
|
8½
|
1957
|
Jerome Hill
|
Albert Schweitzer
|
1999
|
Pedro Almodóvar
|
All About My Mother
|
2022
|
Edward Berger
|
All Quiet on the Western Front
|
1974
|
Federico Fellini
|
Amarcord
|
1990
|
Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn
|
American Dream
|
2019
|
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert
|
American Factory
|
2012
|
Michael Haneke
|
Amour
|
2015
|
Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
|
Amy
|
1967
|
Pierre Schoendoerffer
|
The Anderson Platoon
|
1995
|
Jon Blair
|
Anne Frank Remembered
|
2020
|
Thomas Vinterberg
|
Another Round
|
1995
|
Marleen Gorris
|
Antonia's Line
|
1969
|
Bernard Chevry
|
Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
|
1986
|
Brigitte Berman
|
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
|
1986
|
Fons Rademakers
|
The Assault
|
1987
|
Gabriel Axel
|
Babette's Feast
|
2003
|
Denys Arcand
|
The Barbarian Invasions
|
1993
|
Fernando Trueba
|
Belle Époque
|
1979
|
Ira Wohl
|
Best Boy
|
1949
|
Vittorio De Sica
|
Bicycle Thieves
|
2014
|
Don Hall, Chris Williams & Roy Conli
|
Big Hero 6
|
1976
|
Jean-Jacques Annaud
|
Black and White in Color
|
1962
|
Louis Clyde Stoumen
|
Black Fox
|
1959
|
Marcel Camus
|
Black Orpheus
|
2004
|
Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
|
Born into Brothels
|
2002
|
Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
|
Bowling for Columbine
|
2023
|
Hayao Miyazaki & Toshio Suzuki
|
The Boy and the Heron
|
2012
|
Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman
|
Brave
|
1985
|
Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd
|
Broken Rainbow
|
1994
|
Nikita Mikhalkov
|
Burnt by the Sun
|
1997
|
Mike van Diem
|
Character
|
1989
|
Giuseppe Tornatore
|
Cinema Paradiso
|
2014
|
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
|
Citizenfour
|
1967
|
Jiří Menzel
|
Closely Watched Trains
|
2017
|
Lee Unkrich & Darla K. Anderson
|
Coco
|
1989
|
Rob Epstein and Bill Couturié
|
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
|
2007
|
Stefan Ruzowitzky
|
The Counterfeiters
|
2009
|
Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
|
The Cove
|
2000
|
Ang Lee
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
|
1984
|
Richard Dembo
|
Dangerous Moves
|
1973
|
François Truffaut
|
Day for Night
|
1949
|
Crown Film Unit
|
Daybreak in Udi
|
2008
|
Yōjirō Takita
|
Departures
|
1975
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
Dersu Uzala
|
1943
|
British Ministry of Information
|
Desert Victory
|
1947
|
Sid Rogell, Theron Warth and Richard Fleischer
|
Design for Death
|
1972
|
Luis Buñuel
|
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
|
1986
|
Joseph Feury and Milton Justice
|
Down and Out in America
|
2021
|
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
|
Drive My Car
|
1965
|
Sidney Glazier
|
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
|
2021
|
Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino & Clark Spencer
|
Encanto
|
1983
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Fanny and Alexander
|
2017
|
Sebastián Lelio
|
A Fantastic Woman
|
1944
|
Edward Steichen, United States Navy
|
The Fighting Lady
|
2003
|
Andrew Stanton
|
Finding Nemo
|
2003
|
Errol Morris and Michael Williams
|
The Fog of War
|
1952
|
René Clément
|
Forbidden Games
|
2018
|
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, and Shannon Dill
|
Free Solo
|
1980
|
Murray Lerner
|
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
|
2013
|
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee & Peter Del Vecho
|
Frozen
|
1971
|
Vittorio De Sica
|
The Garden of the Finzi Continis
|
1954
|
Teinosuke Kinugasa
|
Gate of Hell
|
1981
|
Arnold Schwartzman and Rabbi Marvin Hier
|
Genocide
|
1978
|
Bertrand Blier
|
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
|
1973
|
Kieth Merrill
|
The Great American Cowboy
|
2013
|
Paolo Sorrentino
|
The Great Beauty
|
2022
|
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar & Alex Bulkley
|
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
|
2006
|
George Miller
|
Happy Feet
|
1976
|
Barbara Kopple
|
Harlan County, U.S.A.
|
1971
|
Walon Green
|
The Hellstrom Chronicle
|
1983
|
Emile Ardolino
|
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
|
1974
|
Peter Davis and Bert Schneider
|
Hearts and Minds
|
1955
|
Nancy Hamilton
|
Helen Keller in Her Story
|
1960
|
Larry Lansburgh
|
The Horse with the Flying Tail
|
1988
|
Marcel Ophüls
|
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
|
1993
|
Susan Raymond and Alan Raymond
|
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
|
2017
|
Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
|
Icarus
|
2014
|
Paweł Pawlikowski
|
Ida
|
2010
|
Susanne Bier
|
In a Better World
|
1991
|
Allie Light and Irving Saraf
|
In the Shadow of the Stars
|
2006
|
Davis Guggenheim
|
An Inconvenient Truth
|
2004
|
Brad Bird
|
The Incredibles
|
1992
|
Régis Wargnier
|
Indochine
|
2010
|
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
|
Inside Job
|
2015
|
Pete Docter & Jonas Rivera
|
Inside Out
|
2000
|
Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer
|
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
|
1970
|
Elio Petri
|
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
|
1964
|
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
|
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun
|
1968
|
Bill McGaw
|
Journey into Self
|
1990
|
Xavier Koller
|
Journey of Hope
|
1982
|
John Zaritsky
|
Just Another Missing Kid
|
1996
|
Jan Svěrák
|
Kolya
|
1951
|
Olle Nordemar
|
Kon-Tiki
|
1956
|
Federico Fellini
|
La Strada
|
1998
|
James Moll and Kenneth Lipper
|
The Last Days
|
1961
|
Arthur Cohn and René Lafuite
|
Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)
|
1998
|
Roberto Benigni
|
Life Is Beautiful
|
2006
|
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
|
The Lives of Others
|
1953
|
Walt Disney
|
The Living Desert
|
1997
|
Marvin Hier and Richard Trank
|
The Long Way Home
|
1977
|
Moshé Mizrahi
|
Madame Rosa
|
1966
|
Claude Lelouch
|
A Man and a Woman
|
2008
|
Simon Chinn and James Marsh
|
Man on Wire
|
1975
|
F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartlebe
|
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
|
2005
|
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
|
March of the Penguins
|
1972
|
Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan
|
Marjoe
|
1994
|
Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders
|
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
|
1991
|
Gabriele Salvatores
|
Mediterraneo
|
1981
|
István Szabó
|
Mephisto
|
1958
|
Jacques Tati
|
Mon Oncle
|
1948
|
Maurice Cloche
|
Monsieur Vincent
|
1980
|
Vladimir Menshov
|
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
|
1942
|
Moscow Central Studio of Newsreels
|
Moscow Strikes Back
|
2001
|
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet
|
Murder on a Sunday Morning
|
2020
|
Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster
|
My Octopus Teacher
|
2022
|
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
|
Navalny
|
1957
|
Federico Fellini
|
Nights of Cabiria
|
2001
|
Danis Tanović
|
No Man's Land
|
2002
|
Caroline Link
|
Nowhere in Africa
|
1985
|
Luis Puenzo
|
The Official Story
|
2016
|
Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
|
O.J.: Made in America
|
1999
|
Arthur Cohn and Kevin Macdonald
|
One Day in September
|
1992
|
Barbara Trent and David Kasper
|
The Panama Deception
|
2019
|
Bong Joon-ho
|
Parasite
|
1988
|
Bille August
|
Pelle the Conqueror
|
1942
|
Frank Capra, US Office of War Information
|
Prelude to War
|
2011
|
Gore Verbinski
|
Rango
|
1951
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
Rashomon
|
2007
|
Brad Bird
|
Ratatouille
|
1963
|
Robert Hughes
|
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
|
2018
|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
Roma
|
2016
|
Asghar Farhadi
|
The Salesman
|
1955
|
Hiroshi Inagaki
|
Samurai, The Legend of Musashi
|
1952
|
Irwin Allen
|
The Sea Around Us
|
2004
|
Alejandro Amenábar
|
The Sea Inside
|
2012
|
Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn
|
Searching for Sugar Man
|
1978
|
Arnold Shapiro
|
Scared Straight!
|
2009
|
Juan José Campanella
|
The Secret in Their Eyes
|
1948
|
Orville O. Dull
|
The Secret Land
|
2011
|
Asghar Farhadi
|
A Separation
|
1959
|
Bernhard Grzimek
|
Serengeti Shall Not Die
|
1947
|
Vittorio De Sica
|
Shoe-Shine
|
1965
|
Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
|
The Shop on Main Street
|
2001
|
Aron Warner
|
Shrek
|
1956
|
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
|
The Silent World
|
2015
|
László Nemes
|
Son of Saul
|
2020
|
Pete Docter & Dana Murray
|
Soul
|
2018
|
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
|
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
|
2002
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
Spirited Away
|
2021
|
Questlove, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein
|
Summer of Soul
|
1962
|
Serge Bourguignon
|
Sundays and Cybele
|
2007
|
Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
|
Taxi to the Dark Side
|
1987
|
Aviva Slesin
|
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
|
1961
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Through a Glass Darkly
|
1984
|
Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen
|
The Times of Harvey Milk
|
1979
|
Volker Schlöndorff
|
The Tin Drum
|
1950
|
Robert Snyder
|
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
|
1982
|
José Luis Garci
|
To Begin Again
|
2010
|
Lee Unkrich
|
Toy Story 3
|
2019
|
Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen & Jonas Rivera
|
Toy Story 4
|
1945
|
The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America
|
The True Glory
|
2005
|
Gavin Hood
|
Tsotsi
|
2011
|
T. J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay and Rich Middlemas
|
Undefeated
|
2009
|
Pete Docter
|
Up
|
1954
|
Walt Disney
|
The Vanishing Prairie
|
1960
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
The Virgin Spring
|
2005
|
Nick Park & Steve Box
|
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
|
2008
|
Andrew Stanton
|
WALL-E
|
1950
|
René Clément
|
The Walls of Malapaga
|
1968
|
Sergei Bondarchuk
|
War and Peace
|
1966
|
Peter Watkins
|
The War Game
|
1996
|
Leon Gast and David Sonenberg
|
When We Were Kings
|
1958
|
Ben Sharpsteen
|
White Wilderness
|
1977
|
John Korty, Dan McCann and Warren L. Lockhart
|
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
|
1970
|
Bob Maurice
|
Woodstock
|
1964
|
Vittorio De Sica
|
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
|
1969
|
Costa-Gavras
|
Z
|
2023
|
Jonathan Glazer
|
The Zone of Interest
|
2016
|
Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Clark Spencer
|
Zootopia
|