New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film
Year ( ceremony ) Winner Director ( s )
1980 ( 46th ) Best Boy Ira Wohl
1981 ( 47th ) N/A N/A
1982 ( 48th ) N/A N/A
1983 ( 49th ) N/A N/A
1984 ( 50th ) The Times of Harvey Milk ≈ Rob Epstein
1985 ( 51st ) Shoah Claude Lanzmann
1986 ( 52nd ) Marlene ≠ Maximilian Schell
1987 ( 53rd ) N/A N/A
1988 ( 54th ) The Thin Blue Line Errol Morris
1989 ( 55th ) Roger & Me Michael Moore
1990 ( 56th ) N/A N/A
1991 ( 57th ) Paris Is Burning Jennie Livingston
1992 ( 58th ) Brother 's Keeper Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
1993 ( 59th ) Visions of Light Arnold Glassman , Todd McCarthy , and Stuart Samuels
1994 ( 60th ) Hoop Dreams ≠ Steve James
1995 ( 61st ) Crumb Terry Zwigoff
1996 ( 62nd ) When We Were Kings ≈ Leon Gast
1997 ( 63rd ) Fast , Cheap & Out of Control Errol Morris
List of winning films -- Best Documentary ( 1980–1997 )
The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film is the award given for best feature documentary film at the annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The category was originally named Best Documentary and was awarded as such between 1980 and 1996. In 1997 it was discontinued and in 1998 it was relaunched under its current name.