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
Filmfare Award for Best Director Zoya Akhtar won it for "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" in 2012.Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won it for "Bareilly Ki Barfi" in 2018. Other women Directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for "Salaam Bombay!" in 1990, Farah Khan for "Main Hoon Na" in 2005 and for "Om Shanti Om" in 2008, Gauri Shinde for "English Vinglish" in 2013 and Meghna Gulzar for "Talvar in 2016 Rajkumar Santoshi remains the only Director to have won the Award for his first two films, Ghayal and Damini Nitesh Tiwari and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari are the only married couple to win the award. Nitesh