The Best First Documentary Feature is one of the annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. It is usually given to the director (or directors). The "first feature" designation is applied to the director.
At the 9th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, the category was renamed to Best New Documentary Filmmaker(s).
| Year | Film | Director(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 (1st) |
Weiner | Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg | [1][2] |
| The Eagle Huntress | Otto Bell | ||
| Hooligan Sparrow | Nanfu Wang | ||
| Off the Rails | Adam Irving | ||
| Tickled | David Farrier and Dylan Reeve | ||
| The Witness | James D. Solomon | ||
| 2017 (2nd) |
Kedi | Ceyda Torun | [3] |
| California Typewriter | Doug Nichol | ||
| Nowhere to Hide | Zaradasht Ahmed | ||
| Step | Amanda Lipitz | ||
| Strong Island | Yance Ford | ||
| Whose Streets? | Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis | ||
| 2018 (3rd) |
Science Fair | Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster | [4][5] |
| Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | ||
| Kusama: Infinity | Heather Lenz | ||
| Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda | Stephen Nomura Schible | ||
| The Sentence | Rudy Valdez | ||
| Wild Wild Country | Chapman Way and Maclain Way | ||
| 2019 (4th) |
Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov | [6][7] |
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Pamela B. Green | ||
| David Crosby: Remember My Name | A.J. Eaton | ||
| For the Birds | Richard Miron | ||
| Love, Antosha | Garret Price | ||
| Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound | Midge Costin |
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