Bu yılın dikkat çeken belgesel yapımları arasında Amy, Where to Invade Next, He Named Me Malala, The Wolf Pack,The Look of Silence, Batkid Begins ve Cartel Land yer alıyor.

Bu 124 yapımın bir kısmının adaylık için gerekli koşulları tamamlaması gerekiyor. Bu süreç son bulduğunda, aralık ayında 124 filmden 15 tanesi aday adayı olarak duyurulacak. Sonunda 14 Ocak'ta "En İyi Belgesel Film" kategorisinde aday gösterilme hakkı kazanan 5 yapım açıklanacak.

İşte "En İyi Belgesel Film" kategorisinde aday gösterilmek için başvuru yapan yapımlar şöyle:

• Above and Beyond
• All Things Must Pass
• Amy
• The Armor of Light
• Ballet 422
• Batkid Begins
• Becoming Bulletproof
• Being Evel
• Beltracchi — The Art of Forgery
• Best of Enemies
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• Bolshoi Babylon
• Brand: A Second Coming
• A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
• Call Me Lucky
• Cartel Land
• Censored Voices
• Champs
• CodeGirl
• Coming Home
• Dark Horse
• Deli Man
• Dior and I
• The Diplomat
• (Dis)Honesty — The Truth about Lies
• Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
• Dreamcatcher
• dream/killer
• Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
• Eating Happiness
• Every Last Child
• Evidence of Harm
• Farewell to Hollywood
• Finders Keepers
• The Forecaster
• Frame by Frame
• Gardeners of Eden
• A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile
• Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones
• Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• He Named Me Malala
• Heart of a Dog
• Hitchcock/Truffaut
• How to Change the World
• Human
• The Hunting Ground
• I Am Chris Farley
• In Jackson Heights
• In My Father’s House
• India’s Daughter
• Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words
• Iraqi Odyssey
• Iris
• Janis: Little Girl Blue
• Karski & the Lords of Humanity
• Killing Them Safely
• Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
• Lambert & Stamp
• A Lego Brickumentary
• Listen to Me Marlon
• Live from New York!
• The Look of Silence
• Meet the Patels
• Meru
• The Mind of Mark DeFriest
• Misery Loves Comedy
• Monkey Kingdom
• A Murder in the Park
• My Italian Secret
• My Voice, My Life
• 1971
• Of Men and War
• One Cut, One Life
• Only the Dead See the End of War
• The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
• Peace Officer
• The Pearl Button
• Pink & Blue: Colors of Hereditary Cancer
• Poached
• Polyfaces
• The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers
• Prophet’s Prey
• Racing Extinction
• The Resurrection of Jake the Snake
• Ride the Thunder — A Vietnam War Story of Victory & Betrayal
• Rosenwald
• The Russian Woodpecker
• Searching for Home: Coming Back from War
• Seeds of Time
• Sembene!
• The Seven Five
• Seymour: An Introduction
• Sherpa
• A Sinner in Mecca
• Something Better to Come
• Song from the Forest
• Song of Lahore
• Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
• Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
• Stray Dog
• Sunshine Superman
• Sweet Micky for President
• Tab Hunter Confidential
• The Tainted Veil
• Tap World
• (T)error
• Thao’s Library
• Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
• 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets
• The Touch of an Angel
• TransFatty Lives
• The True Cost
• Twinsters
• Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists
• The Wanted 18
• We Are Many
• We Come as Friends
• We Were Not Just … Bicycle Thieves. Neorealism
• Welcome to Leith
• What Happened, Miss Simone?
• What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
• Where to Invade Next
• Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
• The Wolfpack