| DOCUMENTARY FEATURE | Erik Anderson | Evan Kost | Nicole Latayan | James Narvey | Adam Norbury | Jason Osiason | Chris Pepper | Long Pham | Kenneth Polischuk | Jacqui Sutherland | TOTAL POINTS | RANK |
| He Named Me Malala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 40 | 1 | |
| Amy | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 2 | ||
| Cartel Land | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 3 | ||
| The Look of Silence | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 4 | |||
| Where to Invade Next | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 5 | |||||
| The Hunting Ground | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | |||||||
| Meru | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Best of Enemies | 4 | 2 | 9 | |||||||||
| Listen to Me Marlon | 5 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||
| Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | ||||||||||||
| Heart of a Dog | ||||||||||||
| 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets | ||||||||||||
| We Come as Friends | ||||||||||||
| What Happened, Miss Simone? |
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