Chlotrudis Award for Best Documentary

The Chlotrudis Award for Best Documentary is an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to the documentary film that is voted as the best by participating members. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Director
2002	The Gleaners and I	Agnès Varda
	Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale	David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro
	Startup.com	Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus
2002	Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)	AJ Schnack
	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Moore
	The Cockettes	Bill Weber and David Weissman
	Daughter from Danang	Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco
	My Father the Genius	Lucia Small
2003	Capturing the Friedmans	Andrew Jarecki
	Lost in La Mancha	Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
	OT: Our Town	Scott Hamilton Kennedy
	Spellbound	Jeffrey Blitz
	Winged Migration	Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Debats
2004	Tarnation	Jonathan Caouette
	The Agronomist	Jonathan Demme
	Bright Leaves	Ross McElwee
	Control Room	Jehane Noujaim
	DiG!	Ondi Timoner
	The Fog of War	Errol Morris
	Screaming Men	Mika Ronkainen
2005	Born into Brothels	Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
	Murderball	Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
	Double Dare	Amanda Micheli
	Grizzly Man	Werner Herzog
	In the Realms of the Unreal	Jessica Yu
2006	This Film Is Not Yet Rated	Kirby Dick
	The 10th District Court: Moments of Trials	Raymond Depardon
	49 Up	Michael Apted
	Jesus Camp	Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
	Shut Up and Sing	Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck
	Sisters in Law	Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto
	Street Fight	Marshall Curry
2007	Protagonist	Jessica Yu
	Helvetica	Gary Hustwit
	The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters	Seth Gordon
	Kurt Cobain: About a Son	AJ Schnack
	Lake of Fire	Tony Kaye
	No End in Sight	Charles Ferguson
2008	Man on Wire	James Marsh
	Chris & Don: A Love Story	Guido Santi and Tina Mascara
	Encounters at the End of the World	Werner Herzog
	My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin
	Surfwise	Doug Pray
2009	The Beaches of Agnès	Agnès Varda
	Herb and Dorothy	Megumi Sasaki
	La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet	Frederick Wiseman
	Good Hair	Jeff Stilson
	Theater of War	John Walter
	Unmistaken Child	Nati Baratz

2010s

Year	Film	Director
2010	Marwencol	Jeff Malmberg
	The Art of the Steal	Don Argott
	Exit Through the Gift Shop	Banksy
	Inside Job	Charles Ferguson
	Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work	Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
	Prodigal Sons	Kimberly Reed

External links

• Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film
• Chlotrudis Awards at IMDB