Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story dominated at the 9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards, winning all six of its nominated categories, including a tie with Will & Harper for Best Documentary Feature, along with wins for Best Director for Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Best Editing for Otto Burnham, Best Score for Ilan Eshkeri, Best Archival Documentary, and Best Biographical Documentary.

The Last of the Sea Women, Simone Biles Rising, and Sugarcane each took home two awards.

The Last of the Sea Women won the awards for Best Cinematography for Iris Ng, Eunson Choo, and Justin Turkowski, and Best Science/Nature Documentary; Simone Biles Rising won for Best Sports Documentary and Best Limited Documentary Series; and Sugarcane won Best Political Documentary and Best True Crime Documentary.

Other awards went to Natalie Rae and Angela Patton for Best New Documentary Filmmaker(s) for their work on Daughters.

Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces won for Best Narration, written and performed by Steve Martin; Best Historical Documentary was awarded to The Greatest Night in Pop; Best Music Documentary went to Music by John Williams; and Best Short Documentary was presented to The Only Girl in the Orchestra.

At the ceremony, the Pennebaker Award was presented to acclaimed documentarian Rory Kennedy. The award is named in honor of D A Pennebaker, a past winner. It was presented to Kennedy by Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker’s long-time collaborator and widow.

Christopher Campbell, Vice President of Documentaries of the Critics Choice Association said, “Tonight brought about some wonderful surprises as we celebrated a fantastic array of documentaries and the remarkable people whose stories they told. Our ninth show was certainly our most inspiring yet. Congratulations to all the winners!”

Winners of the 9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (TIE)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films)
Will & Harper (Netflix)

BEST DIRECTOR
Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui – Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films)

BEST NEW DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER(S)
Natalie Rae & Angela Patton – Daughters (Netflix)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Iris Ng, Eunsoo Cho, Justin Turkowski – The Last of the Sea Women (Apple TV+)

BEST EDITING
Otto Burnham – Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films)

BEST SCORE
Ilan Eshkeri – Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films)

BEST NARRATION
Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces (Apple TV+)
Written and performed by Steve Martin

BEST ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTARY
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films)

BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY
The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix)

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films)

BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Music by John Williams (Walt Disney Studios)

BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
Sugarcane (National Geographic)

BEST SCIENCE/NATURE DOCUMENTARY
The Last of the Sea Women (Apple TV+)

BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
Simone Biles Rising (Netflix)

BEST TRUE CRIME DOCUMENTARY
Sugarcane (National Geographic)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
The Only Girl in the Orchestra (Netflix)

BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Simone Biles Rising (Netflix)

BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIES
30 for 30 (ESPN)