| Year | Result | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
2000
| - | - | - | - | - |
2000
| Winner | The Gleaners and I | Les glaneurs et la glaneuse | Agnès Varda | France |
2000
| Nominations | Calle 54 | | Fernando Trueba | Spain |
2000
| Nominations | Gulag | Goulag | Iossif Pasternak, Hélène Châtelain | France |
2000
| Nominations | Home Game | Heimspiel | Pepe Danquart | Germany |
2000
| Nominations | One Day in September± | - | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom |
2000
| Nominations | Working Women of the World | Ouvrières du monde | Marie-France Collard | France |
2001
| - | - | - | - | - |
2001
| Winner | Black Box BRD | - | Andres Veiel | Germany |
2001
| no other nominees | - | - | - | - |
2002
| - | - | - | - | - |
2002
| Winner | To Be and to Have | Être et avoir | Nicolas Philibert | France |
2002
| no other nominees | - | - | - | - |
2003
| - | - | - | - | - |
2003
| Winner | ' | S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge | Rithy Panh | France, Camboida |
2003
| Nominations | The Five Obstructions | De fem benspænd | Lars Von Trier, Jørgen Leth |  , Belgium,  , France |
2003
| Nominations | Whose Is This Song? | Chia e tazi pesen? | Adela Peeva |  , Belgium |
2003
| Nominations | Eat, Sleep, No Women | Essen, schlafen, keine Frauen | Heiner Stadler | Germany |
2003
| Nominations | A Species' Odyssey | L'odyssée de l'espèce | Jacques Malaterre, Javier G. Salanova | France, Canada, Italy, , Belgium |
2003
| Nominations | The Day I Will Never Forget | | Kim Longinotto | United Kingdom |
2003
| Nominations | The Story of the Weeping Camel≠ | Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel | Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni | Germany, Mongolia |
2003
| Nominations | Hush! | Tishe! | Victor Kossakovsky |  |
2004
| - | - | - | - | - |
2004
| Winner | Darwin's Nightmare≠ | | Hubert Sauper |  , France, Belgium |
2004
| Nominations | ' | | Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill | United Kingdom |
2004
| Nominations | Addicted to Acting | Die Spielwütigen | Andres Veiel | Germany |
2004
| Nominations | Basque Ball, Skin Against Stone | La pelota vasca, la piel contra la piedra | Julio Medem | Spain |
2004
| Nominations | The World According to Bush | Le monde selon Bush | William Karel | France |
2004
| Nominations | Checkpoint | Mahssomim | Yoav Shamir | Israel |
2004
| Nominations | The Last Victory | | John Appel |  |
2004
| Nominations | Touch the Sound | | Thomas Riedelsheimer | Germany, United Kingdom, Finland |
2005
| - | - | - | - | - |
2005
| Winner | The Pipeline Next Door | Un dragon dans les eaux | Nino Kirtadzé | France |
2005
| Nominations | Stroke | Am seidenen Faden | Katarina Peters | Germany |
2005
| Nominations | The Devil's Miner | Berg des Teufels | Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson | Germany |
2005
| Nominations | Dreamland | Leiputrija | Laila Pakalnina |  , Germany |
2005
| Nominations | Melodias | | François Bovy | Switzerland |
2005
| Nominations | Before Flying Back to the Earth | Pries parskrendant i zeme | Arunas Matelis |  , Germany |
2005
| Nominations | Rehearsals | Repetitioner | Michal Leszczylowsky, Gunnar Källström | Sweden |
2005
| Nominations | The Swenkas | | Jeppe Rønde | , Sweden |
2005
| Nominations | Raw Youth | Ungdommens råskap | Margreth Olin | Norway, |
2005
| Nominations | Viva Zapatero! | | Sabina Guzzanti | Italy, |
2005
| Nominations | Workingman's Death | | Michael Glawogger | Austria, Germany |
2006
| - | - | - | - | - |
2006
| Winner | Into Great Silence | Die Grosse Stile | Philip Gröning | Germany |
2006
| Nominations | 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep | | Ben Hopkins | United Kingdom |
2006
| Nominations | Dreaming by Numbers | | Anna Bucchetti | |
2006
| Nominations | Grandmother's House | La casa de mi abuela | Adan Allaga | Spain |
2006
| Nominations | Maradona, the Golden Kid | Maradona, un gamin en or | Jean-Christophe Rosé | France |
2006
| Nominations | The Cemetery Club | Moadon beit hakvarot | Tali Shemesh | Israel |
2006
| Nominations | The Fisherman and the Dancing Girl | Rybak i tantsovshitsa | Valeriy Solomin | Russia |
2006
| Nominations | Our Daily Bread | Unser täglich Brot | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria |
2007
| - | - | - | - | - |
2007
| Winner | Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers | Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise | Rithy Panh | France |
2007
| Nominations | To the Limit | Am Limit | Pepe Danquart | Germany, Austria |
2007
| Nominations | Belarusian Waltz | | Andrzej Fidyk |  |
2007
| Nominations | Forever | | Heddy Honigmann | |
2007
| Nominations | Echoes of Home | Heimatklänge | Stefan Schwietert | Switzerland, Germany |
2007
| Nominations | 9 Star Hotel | Malon 9 Kochavim | Ido Haar | Israel |
2007
| Nominations | The Champagne Spy | Meragel Hashampaniya | Nadav Schirman | Israel, Germany |
2007
| Nominations | ' | | Pernille Rose Grønkjær | |
2007
| Nominations | Where is the Love in the Palmgrove? | Où est l'amour dans la palmeraie? | Jérôme Le Maire | Belgium |
2007
| Nominations | Divorce Albanian Style | Razvod Po Albanski | Adela Peeva | Bulgaria |
2008
| - | - | - | - | - |
2008
| Winner | René | | Helena Trestikova |  |
2008
| Nominations | Durakovo – Village of Fools | Durakovo – Le village des fous | Nino Kirtadzé | France |
2008
| Nominations | Fados | | Carlos Saura |  ,  |
2008
| Nominations | Children. As Time Flies. | Kinder. Wie Zeit vergeht. | Thomas Heise | Germany |
2008
| Nominations | The Mother | La mère | Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarov | Switzerland |
2008
| Nominations | Man on Wire± | | James Marsh | United Kingdom, United States |
2008
| Nominations | ' | Naufragés des Andes | Gonzalo Arijón | France |
2008
| Nominations | Citizen Havel | Obcan Václav Havel | Pavel Koutecký, Miroslav Janek | |
2008
| Nominations | Shadow of the Holy Book | Pyhän kirjan varjo | Arto Halonen |  |
2008
| Nominations | The Dictator Hunter | | Klaartje Quirijns | |
2009
| - | - | - | - | - |
2009
| Winner | The Sound of Insects – Records of a Mummy | Das Summen der Insekten – Bericht einer Mumie | Peter Liechti | Switzerland |
2009
| Nominations | Cooking History | Ako sa varia dejiny | Peter Kerekes |  , , |
2009
| Nominations | Below Sea Level | | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, United States |
2009
| Nominations | Burma VJ≠ | | Anders Østergaard | |
2009
| Nominations | The Damned of the Sea | Les damnes de la mer | Jawad Rhalib | Belgium |
2009
| Nominations | Defamation | | Yoav Shamir | , Austria, Israel,  |
2009
| Nominations | The Woman with the 5 Elephants | Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten | Vadim Jendreyko | Switzerland, Germany |
2009
| Nominations | The Heart of Jenin | Das Herz von Jenin | Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter | Germany |
2009
| Nominations | Pianomania | | Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis | Germany, Austria |
2009
| Nominations | The Beaches of Agnès | Les plages d'Agnès | Agnès Varda | France |
| Year | Result | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
2010
| - | - | - | - | - |
2010
| Winner | Nostalgia for the Light | Nostalgia de la luz | Patricio Guzmán | France, Germany, Chile |
2010
| Nomination | Armadillo | | Janus Metz | Denmark, Sweden |
2010
| Nomination | Steam of Life | Miesten vuoro | Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen | Finland, Sweden |
2011
| - | - | - | - | - |
2011
| Winner | Pina≠ | | Wim Wenders | Germany |
2011
| Nomination | Position Among the Stars | Stand van de sterren | Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands |
2011
| Nomination | ¡Vivan las Antipodas! | | Victor Kossakovsky | Germany, Netherlands,  ,  |
2012
| - | - | - | - | - |
2012
| Winner | Winter Nomad | Hiver Nomade | Manuel von Stürler | Switzerland |
2012
| Nomination | London – The Modern Babylon | | Julien Temple | United Kingdom |
2012
| Nomination | Tea or Electricity | Le thé ou l'électricité | Jerome Lemaire | Belgium France  |
2013
| - | - | - | - | - |
2013
| Winner | The Act of Killing≠ | Jagal | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom |
2013
| Nomination | Stop-Over | L'escale | Kaveh Bakhtiari | Switzerland, France |
2013
| Nomination | The Missing Picture | L'image manquante | Rithy Panh | France  |
2014
| - | - | - | - | - |
2014
| Winner | Master of the Universe | | Marc Bauder | Germany  |
2014
| Nomination | Just the Right Amount of Violence | | Jon Bang Carlsen | Denmark |
2014
| Nomination | Of Men and War | Des hommes et de la guerre | Laurent Bécue-Renard | France, Switzerland |
2014
| Nomination | Sacro GRA | | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France |
2014
| Nomination | Waiting For August | | Teodora Ana Mihai | Belgium, Romania |
2014
| Nomination | We Come as Friends | | Hubert Sauper | Austria, France |
2015
| - | - | - | - | - |
2015
| Winner | Amy± | | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom |
2015
| Nomination | Dancing with Maria | | Ivan Gergolet | Italy, Argentina, Slovenia |
2015
| Nomination | The Look of Silence≠ | Senyap | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom |
2015
| Nomination | A Syrian Love Story | | Sean McAllister | United Kingdom, France |
2015
| Nomination | Toto and His Sisters | | Alexander Nanau | Romania |
2016
| - | - | - | - | - |
2016
| Winner | Fire at Sea≠ | Fuocoammare | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France |
2016
| Nomination | 21 x New York | 21 x Nowy Jork | Piotr Stasik | Poland |
2016
| Nomination | A Family Affair | | Tom Fassaertr | Netherlands, Belgium |
2016
| Nomination | Mr. Gaga | | Tomer Heymann | Israel, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands |
2016
| Nomination | S Is for Stanley | Trent'anni dietro al volante per Stanley Kubrick | Alex Infascelli | Italy |
2016
| Nomination | The Land of the Enlightened | | Pieter-Jan De Pue | Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany |
2016
| Selection | A German Life | :de:Ein deutsches Leben|Ein deutsches Leben | Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer & Florian Weigensamer | |
2016
| Selection | Becoming Zlatan | Den unge Zlatan | Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten | Sweden, Netherlands, Italy |
2016
| Selection | Déjà vu | - | Jon Bang Carlsen | Denmark |
2016
| Selection | Europe, She Loves | - | Jan Gassmann |  Germany |
2016
| Selection | Herr von Bohlen | - | André Schäfer | Germany |
2016
| Selection | Lost and Beautiful | Bella e perduta | Pietro Marcello | Italy |
2016
| Selection | Mallory | - | Helena Třeštíková |  |
2016
| Selection | The Event | Событие | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Belgium |
2016
| Selection | The Longest Run | Ο Πιο Μακρυς Δρομος | Marianna Economou | Greece |
2016
| Selection | We'll be alright | Bref manuel de liberation | Alexander Kuznetsov | France |
2017
| - | - | - | - | - |
2017
| Winner | Communion | Komunia | Anna Zamecka | Poland |
2017
| Nomination | Austerlitz | - | Sergei Loznitsa | Germany |
2017
| Nomination | La Chana | - | Lucija Stojevic | Spain, Iceland, United States |
2017
| Nomination | Stranger in Paradise | - | Guido Hendrikx | Netherlands |
2017
| Nomination | The Good Postman | Hyvä postimies | Tonislav Hristov | Finland, Bulgaria |
2017
| Selection | Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas | - | Joakim Demmer | Sweden, Germany, Finland |
2017
| Selection | How to Meet a Mermaid | - | Coco Schrijber |  , Denmark  |
2017
| Selection | Libera Nos | Liberami | Federica Di Giacomo | Italy, France |
2017
| Selection | Nothingwood | - | Sonia Kronlund | France, Germany |
2017
| Selection | School Life | In loco parentis | Neasa Ní Chianáin & David Rane | Ireland, Spain |
2017
| Selection | Taste of Cement | - | Ziad Kalthoum | Germany, Lebanon, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Qatar |
2017
| Selection | The Venerable W. | Le vénérable W. | Federica Di Giacomo | France, Switzerland |
2017
| Selection | The War Show | - | Andreas Dalsgaard & Obaidah Zytoon | , Syria, Finland |
2017
| Selection | Ultra | - | Balazs Simonyi | Hungary  |
2017
| Selection | West of the Jordan River | A l'ouest du Jourdain | Amos Gitai | France |
2018
| - | - | - | - | - |
2018
| Winner | ' | Bergman - ett år, ett liv | Jane Magnusson | Sweden, Norway |
2018
| Nomination | A Woman Captured | Egy nő fogságban | Tuza-Ritter | Romania, Germany |
2018
| Nomination | Of Fathers and Sons | Kinder des Kalifats | Talal Derki | Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar |
2018
| Nomination | The Distant Barking of Dogs | - | Simon Lering Wilmont | Denmark, Finland, Sweden |
2018
| Nomination | The Silence of Others | El silencio de otros | Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar | Spain, |
2018
| Selection | End of Life | - | Paweł Wojtasik & John Bruce | , |
2018
| Selection | Meteors | Meteorlar | Gürcan Keltek |  ,  |
2018
| Selection | Samouni Road | La strada dei Samouni | Stefano Savona | Italy, France |
2018
| Selection | Srbenka | - | Nebojša Slijepčević |  |
2018
| Selection | Tarzan's Testicles | Ouale lui Tarzan | Alexandru Solomon | Romania, France |
2018
| Selection | The Dead Nation | Țara moartă | Radu Jude | Romania |
2018
| Selection | The Lust for Power | Mečiar | Tereza Nvotová | , |
2018
| Selection | The Other Side Of Everything | Druga strana svega | Mila Turajlic | Serbia, France |
2018
| Selection | The Other Side of the Wall | Al otro lado del muro | Pau Ortiz | Spain, Mexico |
2018
| Selection | The Poetess | - | Stefanie Brockhaus & Andreas Wolff | Germany, United Arab Emirates |
2019
| - | - | - | - | - |
2019
| Selection | Advocate | לאה צמל, עורכת דין | Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche | Israel, Canada, Switzerland |
2019
| Selection | Aquarela | - | Victor Kossakovsky | Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark |
2019
| Selection | Delphine and Carole | Delphine et Carole, insoumuses | Callisto Mc Nulty | France, Switzerland |
2019
| Selection | For Sama≠ | - | Waad al-Kateab, Edward Wat | United Kingdom, United States |
2019
| Selection | Heimat Is A Space in Time | - | Thomas Heise | Germany, Austria |
2019
| Selection | Honeyland≠ | Медена земја | Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska | North Macedonia |
2019
| Selection | M | - | Yolande Zauberman | France |
2019
| Selection | Push | - | Fredrik Gertten | Sweden, Canada |
2019
| Selection | Putin's Witnesses | - | Vitaly Mansky | Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic |
2019
| Selection | Scheme Birds | - | Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Halli | Sweden, United Kingdom |
2019
| Selection | Selfie | - | Agostino Ferrente | France, Italy |
2019'
| Selection | The Disappearance of my Mother'' | - | Beniamino Barrese | Italy, United States |
