Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Best Picture, none has yet earned a nomination. Documentaries are ineligible for the other awards such as Best Original Screenplay and Best Director due to their realistic elements. The documentary film "With Byrd at the South Pole: The Story of Little America" (1930), won an oscar for Best Cinematography, at the 3rd Academy Awards, the first documentary to win any kind of Oscar. Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to "Kukan" and "Target for
Ariel Award for Best Director Film in 2003. Since 1976, Felipe Cazals has been nominated at least once every decade, winning three times for "El Año de la Peste" (1980), "Bajo la metralla" (1984), and "Las Vueltas del Citrillo" (2006). Buñuel and Amat Escalante won the Ariel for Best Director and the same award at the Cannes Film Festival for "Los Olvidados" and "Heli", respectively. Alejandro González Iñárritu was awarded the Ariel for "Amores Perros", and received the Academy Award for Best Director for "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" and "The Revenant". Since its inception, the award has been given to 38 directors.