BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
This page lists the winners for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, formerly known as the Robert Flaherty Award, for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for movie, television, children's movie and television, and interactive media. There was a documentary award between 1948 and 1990. In 2012, the Academy re-introduced this category.[1]
Award winners[change | change source]
† - means Academy Award winner
| Year | Movie |
|---|---|
| 1948 | Louisiana Story |
| 1949 | Daybreak in Udi † |
| 1950 | The Undefeated |
| 1951 | Beaver Valley |
| 1952 | Royal Journey |
| 1953 | The Conquest of Everest |
| 1954 | The Great Adventure (Det Stora äventyret) |
| 1955 | The Vanishing Prairie † |
| 1956 | On the Bowery |
| 1957 | Journey Into Spring |
| 1958 | Glass (Glas) † |
| 1959 | The Savage Eye |
| 1960 | Dispute |
| 1961 | Volcano (Le Rendezvous du diable) |
| 1962 | Four Line Conics |
| 1963 | Individual Honour |
| 1964 | Nobody Waved Good-bye |
| 1965 | Tokyo Olympiad |
| 1966 | Goal! The World Cup |
| 1967 | To Die in Madrid |
| 1968 | In Need of Special Care |
| 1969 | Prologue |
| 1970 | Sad Song of Yellow Skin |
| 1971 | The Hellstrom Chronicle † |
| 1972 | Cutting Oils and Fluids |
| 1973 | Grierson |
| 1974 | Cree Hunters of Mistassini |
| 1975 | The Early Americans |
| 1976 | The Canadians (Los Canadienses) |
| 1977 | |
| 1978 | The Silent Witness |
| 1979 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs |
| 1980 | |
| 1981 | Soldier Girls |
| 1982 | |
| 1983 | Schindler |
| 1984 | 28 Up |
| 1985 | Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story |
| 1986 | Shoah |
| 1987 | Baka – People of the Rainforest |
| 1988 | Death on the Rock |
| 1989 | Four Hours in My Lai |
| 2011 | Senna |
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Documentary category added to Orange British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA.org. Retrieved March 13, 2012.