Political Film Society Award for Exposé
The Political Film Society Award for exposé is given out each year to a film that has an investigative depth into a subject matter and often exposes surprising information on the subject. This award has been handed out by the Society since 1988. Depending on the number of films that qualify, as few as one films has been nominated for this award before but as many as fourteen have been nominated in years past.
The film that first won this award was A Cry in the Dark in 1988 that was directed by Fred Schepisi. The award, as with any other Political Film Society Award, can go to a mainstream film, independent film, or even an international film. The Political Film Society looks at a broad selection of films before it nominates them for an award.
1980s
- 1988 A Cry in the Dark
- 1989 Scandal
1990s
- 1990 Roger & Me
- 1991 Guilty by Suspicion
- Boyz n the Hood
- JFK
- Paris Is Burning
- 1992 Hoffa
- 1993 In the Name of the Father
- 1994 Quiz Show
- 1995 Nixon
- 1996 Dead Man Walking
- 1997 Rosewood
- Amistad
- The Peacemaker
- Seven Years in Tibet
- 1998
- 1999 Boys Don't Cry
2000s
- 2000 Before Night Falls
- 2001 Uprising
- 2002 Antwone Fisher
- Ararat
- Circuit
- Enigma
- Evelyn
- Green Dragon
- The Grey Zone
- John Q
- K-19: The Widowmaker
- Kandahar
- Max
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- To End All Wars
- Tricky Life
- Y Tu Mamá También
- 2003 Veronica Guerin
- All My Loved Ones
- Amen
- Beyond Borders
- La Casa de Los Babys
- Dark Blue
- The Dancer Upstairs
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Emerald Cowboy
- Green Card Fever
- Herod's Law
- Lilja 4-Ever
- The Magdalene Sisters
- Marooned in Iraq
- Runaway Jury
- Sandstorm
- Shattered Glass
- The Statement
- Taking Sides
- Tycoon: A New Russian
- 2004 Kinsey
- Carandiru
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Gatekeeper
- Hotel Rwanda
- Imagining Argentina
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Osama
- Rosenstrasse
- Tae Guk Ki
- The Yes Men
- 2005 Good Night, and Good Luck
- 2006 Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
- Cautiva
- Fast Food Nation
- Glory Road
- The Good Shepherd
- The Listening
- The Queen
- The Road to Guantánamo
- Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2007 American Gangster
- 2008
- 2009 Fifty Dead Men Walking
2010s
- 2010 Shake Hands with the Devil
- Agora
- Casino Jack
- Extraordinary Measures
- Fair Game
- Formosa Betrayed
- John Rabe
- Mao's Last Dancer
- Princess Ka`iulani
- Vincere
- 2011 Silenced
- 2012 Argo
- 2013 Emperor
- 2014 Difret
- 2015 Experimenter
- 2016 War Dogs
- Denial
- Free State of Jones
- I, Daniel Blake
- The Innocents
- Land of Mine
- The People v Fritz Bauer
- Race
- The Siege of Jadoville
- Silence
- Snowden
- Tanna
- 2017 War Machine
- 15 Minutes
- All the Money in the World
- Alone in Berlin
- Bitter Harvest
- Darkest House
- Detroit
- The Divine Hour
- The King's Choice
- Mark Feld
- Marshall
- The Pirates of Somalia
- The Post
- Tickling Giants
- Tom of Finland
- A United Kingdom
- Victoria and Abdul
- The Zookeeper's Wife
- 2018 Boy Erased
- 2019
- Ashes in the Snow
- The Innocents
- Saint Judy