GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary
Appearance
The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary is one of the annual GLAAD Media Awards which is offered to the best LGBT-related film released for major distribution. First awarded in 1991, it was known as the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film (Documentary) until 1997, when the award was renamed to its current name.
List of winners and nominees by year
Winning nominees are indicated by bold text.
1990s
1990
1992
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
- Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
- Behind the Music (For episode "Boy George")
- Hide and Seek
- I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs
- Licensed to Kill
1999
- Out of the Past
- The Brandon Teena Story
- Dear Jesse
- The Real Ellen Story
- Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Castro
2000s
2000
- After Stonewall
- E! True Hollywood Story (For episode "Divine")
- Golden Threads
- The Man Who Drove with Mandela
- Out at Work
2001
- Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
- The Real World: New Orleans
- Creature
- Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay & Lesbian Parents
- You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men
2002
- Scout's Honor
- American High
- 5 Girls
- Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
- Paragraph 175
2003
- Trembling Before G-d
- Gay Weddings
- True Life (For episode "I'm Coming Out")
- Middle School Confessions
- Southern Comfort
2004
- A Boy Named Sue (Showtime)
- Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (PBS)
- Daddy & Papa (PBS)
- Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay (PBS)
- School's Out: The Life of a Gay High School in Texas (MTV)
2005
- No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (Sundance Channel)
- The Opposite Sex: Rene's Story (Showtime)
- Paternal Instinct (Cinemax)
- Tarnation (Wellspring Media)
- True Life: I'm Gay and I'm Getting Married (MTV)
2006
- American Experience: Kinsey (PBS)
- Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (HBO)
- Same Sex America (Showtime)
- TransGeneration (The Sundance Channel/Logo)
- We Are Dad (Showtime)
2007
- All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (HBO)
- Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (HBO)
- My Mums Used to be Men (BBC America)
- One Punk Under God (Sundance Channel)
- This Film is Not Yet Rated (IFC Films)
2008
- Camp Out (Logo)
- Cruel and Unusual: Transgender Women in Prison (WE tv)
- For the Bible Tells Me So (First Run Features)
- Freddie Mercury: Magic Remixed (VH1/Logo)
- Small Town Gay Bar (Logo)
2009
- A Jihad for Love
- Freeheld
- Chris & Don. A Love Story
- Saving Marriage
- Sex Change Hospital
2010s
Year | Film | Director | Producer(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Ask Not | Johnny Symons | Johnny Symons, Leah Wolchok |
Be Like Others | Tanaz Eshaghian | Tanaz Eshaghian, Christoph Jorg | |
Derek | Isaac Julien, Bernard Rose | Colin MacCabe, Eliza Mellor | |
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls | Leanne Pooley | Arani Cuthbert | |
U People | Olive Demetrius, Hanifah Walidah | Olive Demetrius, Hanifah Walidah | |
2011 | 8: The Mormon Proposition | Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet | Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet, Bruce Bastian, Chris Volz, Emily Pearson |
Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement | Susan Muska, Gréta Ólafsdóttir | Elle Flanders, Susan Muska, Gréta Ólafsdóttir | |
Out. The Glenn Burke Story | Doug Harris | Doug Harris, Sean Maddison | |
Prodigal Sons | Kimberly Reed | Kimberly Reed, Israel Ehrisman, John Keitel | |
Sylvester | Classietta Foreman | Classietta Foreman | |
2012 | Becoming Chaz | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato |
The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Mona Card, Gabriel Rotello | |
Two Spirits | Lydia Nibley | Russell Martin, Lydia Nibley | |
We Were Here | David Weissman, Bill Weber | David Weissman | |
The World's Worst Place to be Gay? | Chris Alcock | Chris Alcock | |
2013 | How to Survive a Plague | David France | Dan Cogan |
Codebreaker | Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey | Paul Ashby, Jennifer Beamish, Clare Beavan, Ryan Greenawalt, Patrick Sammon, Paul Sen, Bennett Singer | |
Hit So Hard | P. David Ebersole | Todd Hughes, Christina Soletti | |
Vito | Jeffrey Schwarz | Jon Glover, Philip Harrison | |
Wish Me Away | Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf | Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf | |
2014 | Bridegroom | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Shane Bitney Crone |
Call Me Kuchu | Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright | Malika Zouhali-Worrall | |
God Loves Uganda | Roger Ross Williams | Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman | |
The New Black | Yoruba Richen | Yoruba Richen, Yvonne Welbon | |
Valentine Road | Marta Cunningham | Marta Cunningham, Sasha Alpert, Eddie Schmidt | |
2015 | L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin | Lauren Lazin | Lauren Lazin |
The Case Against 8 | Ben Cotner, Ryan White | Ben Cotner, Ryan White | |
Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word | Laverne Cox | Casey Acierno, Noopur Agarwal, Mariana Agathoklis, Ronnie Cho, Ruth Cleary, Rich Ferraro, Thomas Fishman, Stephanie Perez, Mike Stafford, Charles Thornton | |
To Russia with Love | Noam Gonick | Laina Cohn | |
True Trans with Laura Jane Grace | Austin Reza | Austin Reza | |
2016 | Kumu Hina | Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson | Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson |
Limited Partnership | Thomas G. Miller | Thomas G. Miller, Kirk Marcolina | |
Mala Mala | Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles | Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles | |
Tab Hunter Confidential | Jeffrey Schwarz | Allan Glaser | |
Tig | Kristina Goolsby, Ashley York | Kristina Goolsby, Ashley York, Michael B. Clark, Alex Turtletaub | |
2017 | Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four | Deborah S. Esquenazi | Sam Tabet |
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures | Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey | Katharina Otto-Bernstein | |
Out of Iraq | Chris McKim, Eva Orner | Chris McKim, Eva Orner | |
The Same Difference | Nneka Onuorah | Anthony Allred, Nneka Onuorah | |
The Trans List | Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Ingrid Duran, Catherine Pino, Sam McConnell, Tommy Walker, Chad Thompson | |
2018 | Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric | <unknown> | Katie Couric |
Chavela | Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi | Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi | |
Kiki | Sara Jordenö | Lori Cheatle, Annika Rogell | |
Real Boy | Shaleece Haas | <unknown> | |
This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous | Barbara Kopple | Barbara Kopple, David Cassidy |