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
Gary King (director) Gary King (director) Gary R. King (born November 15, 1972) is an American director and writer. King's feature film, a musical entitled "How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song" (2012) won the Jury Prize for "Film of the Festival" at the Raindance Film Festival, as well as the Cox Audience Award and the Dan Harkins Breakthrough Filmmaker Award at the Phoenix Film Festival. The film also won Best Feature, Best Trailer, Best Soundtrack and Best Director at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. The film was also shortlisted for an IFP Gotham Audience Award. The film has also received