San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary Film
# San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary Film

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary Film is an award given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor an outstanding documentary film.

## Winners

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| - | - | - |
| 2002 | Rivers and Tides | Thomas Riedelsheimer |
| 2003 | Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki |
| 2004 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Michael Moore |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog |
| 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth | Davis Guggenheim |
| 2007 | No End in Sight | Charles Ferguson |
| 2008 | My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin |
| 2009 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | Sacha Gervasi |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| - | - | - |
| 2010 | The Tillman Story | Amir Bar-Lev |
| 2011 | Tabloid | Errol Morris |
| 2012 | The Waiting Room | Peter Nicks |
| 2013 | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | Stevan Riley |
| 2016 | I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck |
| 2017 | Faces Places | Agnès Varda and JR |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| - | - | - |
| 2020 | Collective | Alexander Nanau |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul | Questlove (Ahmir Thompson) |
