My Top 10 All-Time Favorite Documentary Filmmakers

1. Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line — The Fog of War)

2. Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side — Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God)

3. Nick Broomfield (Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer — Tales of the Grim Sleeper)

4. Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine — Roger & Me)

5. Steve James (Hoop Dreams — The Interrupters)

6. Ken Burns (Civil War — Not for Ourselves Alone)

7. Spike Lee (4 Little Girls — When the Leeves Broke)

8. Orlando Bagwell (Citizen King — Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History)

9. Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone? — Bobby Fischer Against the World)

10. Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America — Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals)

NOTABLE SNUBS:

• Stanley Nelson (The Murder of Emmett Till — Freedom Riders)
• Raoul Peck (Lumumba, the death of a prophet — Fatal Assistance)
• Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September — Marley)
• Mark Achbar (The Corporation — Manufacturing Consent)
• Jehane Noujaim (Control Room — The Square)
• Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me — The Greatest Movie Ever Sold)
• Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA — American Dream)
• Brett Morgen (Crossfire Hurricane — Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck)
• Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger — Why We Fight)
• Michael Kirk (Money, Power & Wall Street — League of Denial)
• Andrew Rossi (Page One — Ivory Tower)
• Davis Guggenheim (He Named Me Malala — An Inconvenient Truth)
• Jonathan Hock (Survive and Advance — Through the Fire)
• Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens —Salesman)
• Charles Ferguson (Inside Job —No End In Sight)
• Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith — The Invisible War)
• Chris Hegedus (Startup.com — The War Room)
• Robert Greenwald (Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers — Outfoxed)
• Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans — The Jinx)
• D.A. Pennebaker (The War Room — Dont Look Back)
• Rory Kennedy (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib — Last Days in Vietnam)
• Werner Herzog (The Grizzly Man — The White Diamond)
• Ric Burns (New York — Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film)
• Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom — Best of Enemies)