AFT Awards: Best Documentary

This is the seventeenth category of the 14th 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. I’m drawing only from films that were either released or playing at a film festival in the 2020 calendar year. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Runners-up:
The Prophet, A Common Goal, A Crime on the Bayou, Beautiful Something Left Behind, Blue Code of Silence, Boys State, Calendar Girl, Coded Bias, Dick Johnson Is Dead

Finalists:
Welcome to Chechnya
Time
Collective
The Dilemma of Desire
Crip Camp

The winner:
A Thousand Cuts told a vital story of intellectual resistance to a totalitarian regime and the continued defense of the freedom of the press.

Other nominees:
Francesco
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
Whirlybird
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