Truer Than Fiction Award
# Truer Than Fiction Award

Il Truer Than Fiction Award è un premio cinematografico assegnato annualmente dal 1997 nell'ambito degli Independent Spirit Awards al regista di un film non di finzione di eccezionale livello artistico.

## Vincitori e candidati

I vincitori sono indicati in grassetto, a seguire gli altri candidati.

### Anni 1997-1999

* 1997: Leon Gast - Quando eravamo re (When We Were Kings)
   * Steven Ascher e Jeanne Jordan - The American Experience - Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
   * Rob Epstein e Jeffrey Friedman - Lo schermo velato (The Celluloid Closet)
   * Al Pacino - Riccardo III - un uomo, un re (Looking for Richard)
   * Joe Berlinger e Bruce Sinofsky - Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
* 1998: Errol Morris - Fast, Cheap & Out of Control ex aequo Danielle Gardner - Soul in the Hole
   * Michèle Ohayon - Colors Straight Up
* 1999: Barbara Sonneborn - Regret to Inform
   * Tim Kirkman - Dear Jesse
   * Kyra Thompson - Dying to Tell the Story
   * Julia Loktev - Moment of Impact
   * Vicky Funari - Paulina

### Anni 2000-2009

* 2000: Owsley Brown - Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
   * Rory Kennedy - American Hollow
   * Nanette Burstein e Brett Morgen - On the Ropes
   * Michael Camerini e Shari Robertson - Well-Founded Fear
* 2001: David S. Shapiro e Laurie Shapiro - Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
   * Jem Cohen e Peter Sillen - Benjamin Smoke
   * James Ronald Whitney - Just, Melvin: Just Evil
   * Vincent Fremont e Shelly Dunn Fremont - Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
* 2002: Monteith McCollum - Hybrid
   * Edet Belzberg - Children Underground
   * Alix Lambert - The Mark of Caïn
   * B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado e Justine Shapiro - Promesse (Promises)
   * Sandi Simcha DuBowski - Trembling Before G-d
* 2003: Jennifer Dworkin - Love and Diane
   * Jeffrey Blitz - Spellbound
   * Mark Moskowitz - Stone Reader
   * Eugene Jarecki - The Trials of Henry Kissinger
* 2004: Megan Mylan e Jon Shenk - Lost Boys of Sudan
   * Linda Goode Bryant e Laura Poitras - Flag Wars
   * Nathaniel Kahn - My Architect
   * Robb Moss - The Same River Twice
* 2005: Zana Briski e Ross Kauffman - Born into Brothels (Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids)
   * Shola Lynch - Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
   * Jehane Noujaim - Control Room
   * Carlos Sandoval e Catherine Tambini - Farmingville
* 2006: Garrett Scott e Ian Olds - Occupation: Dreamland - Viaggio organizzato in Iraq (Occupation: Dreamland)
   * Rachel Boynton - Our Brand Is Crisis
   * Mark Becker - Romántico
   * Thomas Allen Harris - Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
* 2007: Adele Horne - The Tailenders
   * Eric Daniel Metzgar - The Chances of the World Changing
   * AJ Schnack - Kurt Cobain About a Son
* 2008: Laura Dunn - The Unforeseen
   * Gary Hustwit - Helvetica
   * John Maringouin - Running Stumbled
* 2009: Margaret Brown - The Order of Myths
   * Sacha Gervasi - Anvil! The Story of Anvil
   * Darius Marder - Loot

### Anni 2010-2019

* 2010: Bill Ross e Turner Ross - 45365
   * Jessica Oreck - Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
   * Natalia Almada - El general
* 2011: Jeff Malmberg - Marwencol
   * Ilisa Barbash e Lucien Castaing-Taylor - Sweetgrass
   * Lynn True e Nelson Walker - Summer Pasture
* 2012: Heather Courtney - Where Soldiers Come From
   * Danfung Dennis - Hell and Back Again
   * Alma Har'el - Bombay Beach
* 2013: Peter Nicks - The Waiting Room
   * Lucien Castaing-Taylor e Véréna Paravel - Leviathan
   * Jason Tippet ed Elizabeth Mims - Only the Young
* 2014: Jason Osder - Let the Fire Burn
   * Kaylanee Mam - A River Changes Course
   * Stephanie Spray e Pacho Velez - Manakamana
* 2015: Dan Krauss - The Kill Team
   * Amanda Rose Wilder - Approaching the Elephant
   * Darius Clark Monroe - Evolution of a Criminal
   * Sara Dosa - The Last Season
* 2016: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Incorruptible
   * Alex Sichel e Elizabeth Giamatti – A Woman Like Me
   * Hemal Trivedi e Mohammed Ali Naqvi – Among the Believers
* 2017: Nanfu Wang – Hooligan Sparrow
   * Kristi Jacobson – Solitary
   * Sara Jordenö – Kiki
* 2018: Quest, regia di Jonathan Olshefski
   * The Cage Fighter, regia di Jeff Unay
   * Distant Constellation, regia di Shevaun Mizrahi
* 2019: Minding the Gap, regia di Bing Liu
   * Sulle sue spalle (On Her Shoulders), regia di Alexandria Bombach
   * Hale County This Morning, This Evening, regia di RaMell Ross

### Anni 2020-2029

* 2020: Jaddoland, regia di Nadia Shihab
   * 17 Blocks, regia di Davy Rothbart
   * América, regia di Erick Stoll e Chase Whiteside
   * Black Mother, regia di Khalik Allah
