Independent Spirit's Truer than Fiction Award

The "Truer than Fiction Award" is one of the annual awards given by Film Independent. The award was introduced in 1997, and the name of the corporate sponsor of the award has changed numerous times. (For example, in 2007, it was referred to as the "Axium Truer Than Fiction Award.")

Winners and nominees

2000s

*2000: Owsley Brown - '
**Rory Kennedy - "American Hollow"
**Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein - "On the Ropes"
**Michael Camerini, Shari Robertson - "Well-Founded Fear"

*2001: Laurie Gwen Shapiro, David Shapiro - '
**Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen - "Benjamin Smoke"
**James Ronald Whitney - "Just, Melvin"
**Shelly Dunn Fremont, Vincent Fremont, - ""

*"'2002: Monteith McCollum - "Hybrid"
**Edet Belzberg - "Children Underground"
**B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado, Justine Shapiro -"Promises"
**Alix Lambert - "The Mark of Cain"
**Sandi Simcha Dubowski - "Trembling Before G-d"

*"'2003: Jennifer Dworkin - "Love & Diane"
**Jeff Blitz - "Spellbound"
**Mark Moskowitz - "Stone Reader"
**Eugene Jarecki - "The Trials of Henry Kissinger"

*"'2004: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk - "Lost Boys of Sudan"
**Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras - "Flag Wars"
**Nathaniel Kahn - "My Architect"
**Robb Moss - "The Same River Twice"

*"'2005: Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski - "Born Into Brothels"
**Shola Lynch - "Chisholm ‘72--Unbought & Unbossed"
**Jehane Noujaim - "Control Room"
**Carlos Sandoval, Catherine Tambini - "Farmingville"

*2006: Garrett Scott, Ian Olds - '
**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 - "Stumbled"