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
James B. Clark (director) in 1941, which won Academy Awards for both best picture and best director, and for which Clark received a nomination for best editing. In 1942 he edited Henry Hathaway's Oscar-nominated "Ten Gentlemen from West Point", and the musical film "Stormy Weather" (which featured an all-African American cast) in 1943. Throughout the 1940s and the 1950s, he was one of Hollywood's most reliable film editors, working on such high-profile projects as Nunnally Johnson's Oscar-nominated "Holy Matrimony" (1943), the religious epic "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), John M. Stahl's Oscar-winning "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945), Howard Hawks' comedy "I Was a