2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards: Winners โRevealed
Los Angeles,CA – The winners ofโ the 2025 Critics Choice โDocumentary Awards were announced โtoday,recognizing excellenceโข in non-fiction filmmaking across a range of categories. The awards, presented by the Critics Choice Association (CCA), honor the year’s mostโ impactful and innovative documentaries, highlighting stories that inform, inspire, and provoke conversation.
Documentary filmmaking โฃcontinues to be a vital force in โstorytelling, offering unique perspectives โขon critical issues and celebrating human experiences.These awardsโข underscore the power of theโค medium to connect audiences with theโ world around them and to champion the work of the talented filmmakers who bring these stories to life. The accoladesโฃ signal growing audience interest in non-fiction content andโค set a high bar for future โproductions.
Here’s a complete list of the 2025 Criticsโข Choice Documentary Awards winners:
Best Documentary Feature
“Ocean with โDavid attenborough” (National Geographic)
Best Sports Documentary
“america’s sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” (Netflix)
Best Trueโ Crime Documentary
“The Perfect Neighbor” (Netflix)
Best Shortโ Documentary
“Saving Superman” (Switchboard)
Best Limited Documentary Series
“Mr. Scorsese” (Apple TV)
Best Ongoing Documentary Series
“30 for 30” (ESPN Films)
Additionalโ nominees included:
* “Octopus!” (Prime Video)
* “Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey” (Netflix)
* โ “America’sโ Team: The Gamblerโฃ and Hisโ Cowboys” (Netflix)
*โค โฃ “Big Dreams: Little League World Series 2024 (ESPNโฃ Films)
*โค “Full Court Press” (ESPN+)
*โ โฃ”Southpaw: The Life and Legacy โof Jimโฃ Abbott” (ESPN)
* “We Beat the Dream Team” (HBO Max)
* “The Alabamaโข Solution” (HBO Max)
* “Gone Girls: The Long Island serial Killer” (Netflix)
*โ โข”Predators” (MTV Documentaryโข Films / Paramount+)
* “Unknown Number: The High Schoolโข Catfish” (Netflix)
* “The Yogurt Shop Murders” โฃ(HBOโ Max)
* “All the Empty Rooms” (Netflix)
* โค “Classroom 4” (PBS)
*โ โข “The Devil is Busy” (HBO Max)
* “Exodus” (Message Pictures)
* “Fiddler on the Moon: Judaism in Space” (Ironbound โขFilms)
* “sallie’s Ashes” (Robiโค Creative)
* “Shanti Rides Shotgun”โ (Voyager)
* “The โคAmerican Revolution” (PBS)
* “Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015” (HBO Max)
* “hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time” (National Geographic)
* โ “Magic City: An American Fantasy” (Starz)
* “SNL50: Beyond Saturdayโฃ Night” (Peacock)
* โคโฃ “American โฃMasters” โข(PBS)
* “The Reluctant Traveler” (Apple TV)
* “Soloโค Traveling โคwith Traceeโข Ellis Ross” (Roku Channel)
* “Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller” (National Geographic)
* “Trainwreck” (Netflix)