The Sight & Sound Documentary Poll: acknowledgements

Our researcher Pippa Selby

Elizabeth Wood and Jenny Horwell at DocHouse

Mads Mikkelson at CPH:DOX

Laura van Halsema and colleagues at IDFA

Treasa O’Brien at Open City Docs Fest

Sara García Villanueva at Play-Doc Festival

Hussain Currimbhoy at Sheffield Doc/Fest

Renata Clark at the Czech Cultural Centre

Marlena Lukasiak at the Polish Institute

Christine Andersen

Michael Brooke

Mark Cousins

Sarah Harvey and Nikki Cummins

Mikolaj Jazdon

Kevin B. Lee

Lee Daw-ming

Natasha Rulyova

Colin Young

At the BFI

Paul McManus, Nikos Stylianou and Iain Duncan

Patrick Fahy, James Taylor, Katharine Schopflin and their team

Geoff Andrew

Brian Robinson

Patrick Russell and Catherine McGahan

And our poll contributors

Explore all their votes

Critics, curators and academics

Claire Aguilar
Francisco Algarin
Ana Amado
Geoff Andrew
Judith Aston
Michael Atkinson
Cameron Bailey
Miriam Bale
Alberto Barbera
Luciano Barisone
James Bell
Chris Boeckmann
Maria Bonsanti
Tim Boon
Frédéric Boyer
Peter Bradshaw
Nick Bradshaw
Nicole Brenez
Richard Brody
Michael Brooke
Xan Brooks
Al Brown
Stella Bruzzi
Steve Bryant
Maria Campaña Ramia
Chris Campbell
Erdem Murat Çelikler
Tom Charity
Philip Cheah
Ian Christie
Michel Ciment
Ashley Clark
George Clark
Pamela Cohn
Robbie Collin
Charlotte Cook
Karen Cooper
Kieron Corless
John Corner
Mark Cosgrove
David Courier
Noah Cowan
Heather Croall
Fernando F. Croce
Jordan Cronk
Kató Csilla
Isa Cucinotta
Hussain Currimbhoy
Claas Danielsen
Flavia de la Fuente
Gonzalo de Lucas
Ernesto del Rio
Maria Delgado
Stéphane Delorme
Joost Den Hartog
Ally Derks
Helen Dewitt
Mar Diestro-Dópido
Bryony Dixon
Taylor Downing
Dimitris Eipides
Gareth Evans
Sean Farnel
Seth Feldman
Amy Flanagan
Elena Fortes
Tor Fosse
William Fowler
Nick Fraser
Philip French
Jean-Michel Frodon
Chris Fujiwara
Graham Fuller
Filipe Furtado
Tag Gallagher
Charles Gant
Fernando Ganzo
Roger Garcia
Sara García-Villanueva
Thierry Garrel
Fran Gayo
Arnau Gifreu
Cíntia Gil
Andy Glynne
Leo Goldsmith
Carmen Gray
Melissa Gronlund
Haden Guest
Deirdre Haj
Piers Handling
Oli Harbottle
Sandra Hebron
Paul Henley
Sonja Henrici
Craig Hight
Jim Hillier
J. Hoberman
Kay Hoffman
Bert Hogenkampf
Steve Holmgren
Jenny Horwell
Christoph Huber
Pamela Hutchinson
Pasquale Iannone
Wendy Ide
Kevin Jackson
Nick James
David Jenkins
Trevor Johnston
Doug Jones
Kent Jones
Jonathan Kahana
Richard Kelly
Philip Kemp
Ehsan Khoshbakht
Chuck Kleinhans
Gabe Klinger
Eric Kohn
Jim Kolmar
Jakkub Korda
Dieter Kosslick
Jerry Kuehl
Amir Labaki
Ed Lawrenson
Alisa Lebow
Lee Daw-ming
Kevin B Lee
Danny Leigh
Grit Lemke
Michael Lerman
Julia Lesage
Esther Leslie
Li Cheuk-to
Dennis Lim
Wood Lin
Carlos Losilia
Charlie Lyne
Scott MacDonald
David MacDougall
Geoffrey Macnab
Ketil Magnussen
Derek Malcolm
Calum Marsh
Adrian Martin
Peter Matthews
Sophie Mayer
Todd McCarthy
Catherine McGahan
Betsy McLane
Noe Mendelle
Jennifer Merin
Mads Mikkelsen
Jonathan Miller
Mehelli Modi
Olaf Möller
Raya Morag
Àngel Quintana Morraja
Kate Muir
Marco Müller
Adam Nayman
Abé Mark Nornes
Veton Nurkollari
Treasa O’Brien
Hannah Patterson
Michael Pattison
Jaime Pena
David Pendleton
Olivier Père
Gilberto Pérez
Julian Petley
Andréa Picard
Janet Pierson
Nick Pinkerton
Carl Plantinga
Svetlana Popović
Zoran Popović
James Quandt
Quintín
Rachael Rakes
Jean-Pierre Rehm
Michael Renov
Lisandra Rivera
Tim Robey
Nick Roddick
David Rokach
Mandy Rose
Rachel Rosen
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Federico Rossin
Patrick Russell
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sato Tadao
Ariel Schweitzer
Augusto M Seabra
Jess Search
Charlotte Selb
Petra Seliškar
Girish Shambu
Jasper Sharp
Michael Sicinski
Ulla Simonen
Iain Sinclair
Sky Sitney
Andrea Slovakova
Fernanda Solorzano
Necati Sönmez
Tue Steen Müller
Isabel Stevens
Michael Stewart
Heather Stewart
Francine Stock
Martin Stollery
Amy Taubin
Joram ten Brink
David Thompson
J.M. Tyree
Elena von Kassel Siambani
Thomas Waugh
Alexander Weiss
Rich Welch
Thomas White
Sam Wigley
Deane Williams
David Wilson
Brian Winston
Gerhard Wissner
Elizabeth Wood
Jason Wood
Dorothy Woodend
Barbara Wurm
John Wyver
Xie Meng
Colin Young
Neil Young
Alexandra Zeevalkink
Zhang Xianmin
Zhu Rikun
Debra Zimmermann

Filmmakers

John Akomfrah
Phie Ambo
Thom Andersen
Michael Apted
Jennifer Baichwal
Clio Barnard
James Benning
Noel Burch
Jon Bang Carlsen
Xurxo Chirro
Joan Churchill
Jem Cohen
Pat Collins
Mark Cousins
Andreas Dalsgaard
Peter Davis
Susana de Sousa Dias
Daniel Dencik
Kodwo Eshun
Sophie Fiennes
Jeanie Finlay
Dick Fontaine
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Su Friedrich
Grant Gee
Boris Gerrets
Fredrik Gertten
John Gianvito
Amos Gitai
Philippe Grandrieux
Robert Greene
Paul Greengrass
Keith Griffths
Jose Luis Guerín
Joao Rui Guerra da Mata
Barbara Hammer
Brian Hill
Heddy Honigmann
Ben Hopkins
Marc Isaacs
Isaac Julien
Asif Kapadia
Patrick Keiller
Beeban Kidron
Viktor Kossakovsky
Andrew Kotting
Lech Kowalski
John Krish
Salome Lamas
Boris Lehman
Jørgen Leth
Sergei Loznitsa
Kevin Macdonald
Mans Månsson
Martin Marecek
James Marsh
Renzo Martens
Michal Marzak
Sean McAllister
Don McGlynn
Pavel Medvedev
Carol Morley
Jesse Moss
Eva Mulvad
Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Najwa Najjar
Michael Noer
Joshua Oppenheimer
Jessica Oreck
Luis Ospina
Anders Ostergaard
Laila Pakalnina
Anand Patwardhan
Pawel Pawlikowski
Nicolas Philibert
Simon Pummell
Gordon Quinn
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Ben Rivers
Jay Rosenblatt
Turner Ross
Ben Russell
Walter Salles
Manolo Sarmiento
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Andrea Segre
Yoav Shamir
André Singer
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Lisanne Skyler
J.P. Sniadecki
Audrius Stonys
Michael Sturminger
James Toback
Goncalo Tocha
Helena Trestikova
Andrei Ujica
Peter von Bagh
Lucy Walker
Eva Weber
Peter Wintonick
Penny Woolcock
Caveh Zahedi

R.I.P.

Michael Glawogger, Peter Liechti, Robert Gardner, Robert Drew, Harun Farocki