Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary

Critics’ Choice Award for Best Music Documentary
Awarded forBest music documentary
CountryUnited States
Presented byCritics Choice Association
First award2016

The Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary is an accolade presented annually by the Critics Choice Association (CCA) as part of the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. Established in 2016, the award honors exceptional achievement in music-related documentary filmmaking. It is one of the categories recognizing outstanding documentaries released theatrically, on television, or across streaming platforms. The Critics Choice Documentary Awards themselves were launched in 2016.[1]

Winners and nominees

Table key
  indicates the winner

2010s

Year Director(s) Film Ref.
2016
(1st) 		Ron Howard The Beatles: Eight Days a Week [2]
Jim Jarmusch Gimme Danger
Morgan Neville Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Barbara Kopple Miss Sharon Jones!
Stephen Kijak We Are X
Ido Haar Presenting Princess Shaw
2017
(2nd) 		Chris Perkel Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives [3]
Amir Bar-Lev Long Strange Trip
Kasper Collin I Called Him Morgan
Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV Contemporary Color
Colin Hanks Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)
Catherine Bainbridge Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2018
(3rd) 		Alan Hicks

Rashida Jones

Quincy [4]
Kevin Macdonald Whitney
Francis Whately David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Kevin Kerslake Bad Reputation
Thom Zimny Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Stephen Nomura Schible Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Stephen Kijak If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd
2019
(4th) 		Rob Epstein

Jeffrey Friedman

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice [5]
Alan Elliott

Sydney Pollack

Amazing Grace
Martin Scorsese Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
A. J. Eaton David Crosby: Remember My Name
Stanley Nelson Jr. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Ron Howard Pavarotti
Bruce Springsteen

Thom Zimny

Western Stars

2020s

Year Director(s) Film Ref.
2020
(5th) 		Spike Jonze Beastie Boys Story [6]
Alison Ellwood The Go-Go's
Julien Temple Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
Lisa Cholodenko Laurel Canyon
Daniel Roher Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Alex Winter Zappa
Puloma Basu

Rob Hatch-Miller

Other Music
2021
(6th) 		Questlove Summer of Soul [7]
R. J. Cutler Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
Todd Haynes The Velvet Underground
Edgar Wright The Sparks Brothers
Daniel Lindsay

T. J. Martin

Tina
Penny Lane Listening to Kenny G
Sacha Jenkins Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
2022
(7th) 		Peter Jackson The Beatles: Get Back [8]
Brett Morgen Moonage Daydream
Daniel Geller

Dayna Goldfine

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
Sacha Jenkins Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Kathryn Ferguson Nothing Compares
Mary McCartney If These Walls Could Sing
Kathlyn Horan The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
2023
(8th) 		Matthew Heineman American Symphony [9]
Sam Wrench Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Lisa Cortés Little Richard: I Am Everything
John Scheinfeld What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
Rudy Valdez Carlos
Hannah Beachler

Dream Hampton

Raeshem Nijhon

Giselle Bailey

Carri Twig

Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
Roger Ross Williams

Brooklyn Sudano

Love to Love You, Donna Summer
2024
(9th) 		Laurent Bouzereau Music by John Williams [10]
Bao Nguyen The Greatest Night in Pop
Irene Taylor I Am: Celine Dion
Morgan Neville Piece by Piece
Thom Zimny Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Johan Grimonprez Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2025

(10th)

Bernard MacMahon Becoming Led Zeppelin [11]
Questlove Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Amy J. Berg It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Susan Lacy

Jessica Levin

Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Andrew Dominik Bono: Stories of Surrender
Questlove

Oz Rodriguez

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

See also

References

  1. ^ McNary, Dave (2016-08-01). "Critics' Choice Group Announces Documentary Awards". Variety. Retrieved 2026-02-13.
  2. ^ "2016: Inaugural Critics Choice Documentary Awards – Winners | Critics Choice Awards". members.criticschoice.com. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  3. ^ Staff, T. H. R. (2017-11-02). "Critics' Choice Documentary Awards: Full Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  4. ^ Lewis, Hilary (2018-11-10). "Mr. Rogers Film 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' Tops Critics' Choice Documentary Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  5. ^ Howard, Kimberly Nordyke,Annie (2019-11-10). "Critics' Choice Documentary Awards: 'Apollo 11' Tops Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-12-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "2020: 5th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards – Winners | Critics Choice Awards". members.criticschoice.com. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  7. ^ Lewis, Hilary (2021-11-14). "'Summer of Soul' Sweeps Critics Choice Documentary Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  8. ^ Zilko, Christian (2022-11-14). "'Good Night Oppy,' 'Get Back' Dominate Critics Choice Documentary Awards (Complete Winners List)". IndieWire. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  9. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (2023-11-13). "Critics Choice Documentary Awards: 'Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie' Named Best Doc Feature". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  10. ^ Lewis, Hilary (2024-11-11). "Critics Choice Documentary Awards: 'Super/Man' and 'Will & Harper' Tie for Best Feature". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  11. ^ Erbland, Kate (2025-11-10). "'The Perfect Neighbor' Wins Best Documentary Feature and Best Director at 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards". IndieWire. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
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