Man on Wire, by James Marsh and Simon Chinn, won the Best Documentary Feature Film Oscar at the Academy Awards Ceremony on February 22, 2009. The other nominees were the film The Betrayal, directed by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath; the film Encounters at the End of the World, by Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser; The Garden by Scott Hamilton Kennedy; and Trouble the Water by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal.

• 2007: Taxi to the Dark Side
• 2006: An Inconvenient Truth
• 2005: March of the Penguins
• 2004: Born into Brothels
• 2003: The Fog of War
• 2002: Bowling for Columbine
• 2001: Murder on a Sunday Morning
• 2000: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
• 1999: One Day in September
• 1998: The Last Days

• The Betrayal is about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impacton a Laotian family, who eventually migrates to the United States.
• The Garden is about a community garden in South Central Los Angeles.
• Encounters at the End of the World documents people in the Antarctic community of the McMurdo Station and their professions.
• Man on Wire, is about Philippe Petit, a performance artist who illegally walked on a wire in the air between the two Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
• Trouble the Water by a New Orleans resident who documents her life after the Hurricane Katrina.

• Oscars: Oscar Acceptance Speeches Man on Wire