AFT Awards: Best Documentary

This is the eighteenth category of the 8th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions:
Enquiring Minds, Finding Vivian Maier, Freedom Summer, Kabbalah Me, Last Days in Vietnam, Next Year Jerusalem, Virunga

The winner:
Life Itself was a glorious celebration of a man eternally associated with movies, his love for the form, and his many years spent contributing his opinions with two thumbs and plenty of opinion.

Other nominees:
A Murder in the Park
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Jodorowsky's Dune
Citizen Koch