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
 * The Milagro Beanfield War
 * Patty Hearst
 * 1989 Scandal
 * Blaze

1990s

 * 1990 Roger & Me
 * Air America
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Romero
 * 1991 Guilty by Suspicion
 * Boyz n the Hood
 * JFK
 * Paris Is Burning
 * 1992 Hoffa
 * Malcolm X
 * Thunderheart
 * 1993 In the Name of the Father
 * Rising Sun
 * Schindler's List
 * Short Cuts
 * 1994 Quiz Show
 * 1995 Nixon
 * Beyond Rangoon
 * Panther
 * 1996 Dead Man Walking
 * The People vs. Larry Flynt
 * 1997 Rosewood
 * Amistad
 * The Peacemaker
 * Seven Years in Tibet
 * 1998
 * Bulworth
 * A Civil Action
 * Four Days in September
 * Regeneration
 * 1999 Boys Don't Cry
 * Bastards
 * Cabaret Balkan
 * East of Hope Street
 * The Insider
 * Naturally Native
 * One Man's Hero
 * Three Kings
 * Three Seasons

2000s

 * 2000 Before Night Falls
 * But I'm a Cheerleader
 * Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
 * Erin Brockovich
 * From the Edge of the City
 * The Hurricane
 * It All Starts Today
 * Luminarias
 * Remember the Titans
 * Steal This Movie!
 * Thirteen Days
 * Tigerland
 * Titanic Town
 * Traffic
 * X-Men
 * 2001 Uprising
 * Ali
 * Baby Boy
 * Behind Enemy Lines
 * Born under Libra
 * Bread and Roses
 * Greenfingers
 * The Hidden Half
 * The Iron Ladies
 * Journey to the Sun
 * Lumumba
 * Our Lady of the Assassins
 * 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
 * Before the Fall
 * Crash
 * Downfall
 * The Great Water
 * Innocent Voices
 * Lord of War
 * Machuca
 * Munich
 * The Ninth Day
 * North Country
 * Paradise Now
 * Turtles Can Fly
 * 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
 * Amu
 * Bamako
 * Beyond the Gates
 * Black Book
 * Black Friday
 * Charlie Wilson's War
 * The Great Debaters
 * Holly
 * The Hunting Party
 * A Mighty Heart
 * Persepolis
 * Redacted
 * September Dawn
 * The Situation
 * There Will Be Blood
 * Trade
 * The Wind That Shakes the Barley
 * 2008
 * The Bank Job
 * Battle in Seattle
 * Changeling
 * Che
 * The Counterfeiters
 * Defiance
 * Frost/Nixon
 * Milk
 * Miracle at St. Anna
 * Still Life
 * W.
 * Walkyrie
 * 2009 Fifty Dead Men Walking
 * 12
 * The Baader Meinhof Complex
 * The Cove
 * Flame & Citron
 * The Hurt Locker
 * Invictus
 * The Last Station
 * Punctured Hope
 * Sin Nombre
 * Skin
 * State of Play
 * Storm
 * The Stoning of Soraya M.
 * The Sun
 * The Yes Men Fix the World
 * The Young Victoria

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
 * 5 Days of War
 * Amigo
 * The Bang Bang Club
 * City of Life and Death
 * The Conquest
 * The Conspirator
 * The Devil's Double
 * Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within
 * J. Edgar
 * Kinyarwanda
 * Machine Gun Preacher
 * Oranges and Sunshine
 * The Whistleblower
 * 2012 Argo
 * Compliance
 * For Greater Glory
 * Lula, Son of Brazil
 * Mulberry Child
 * 2013 Emperor
 * Aftermath
 * Dallas Buyers Club
 * A Dark Truth
 * The Fifth Estate
 * The Reluctant Fundamentalist
 * Saving Lincoln
 * 2014 Difret
 * Bethlehem
 * Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain
 * Cesar Chavez
 * Coldwater
 * Giovanni's Island
 * The Imitation Game
 * Kill the Messenger
 * The Last Sentence
 * The Monuments Men
 * Omar
 * Pride
 * The Railway Man
 * Rosewater
 * Siddhart
 * Walking with the Enemy
 * 2015 Experimenter
 * Bridge of Spies
 * Heneral Luna
 * Jimmy's Hall
 * Labyrinth of Lies
 * Midterranea
 * Noble
 * Spotlight
 * Straight Outta Compton
 * The Danish Girl
 * The Girl King
 * Trumbo
 * Truth
 * Woman in Gold
 * 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 Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
 * Marshall
 * The Pirates of Somalia
 * The Post
 * Tickling Giants
 * Tom of Finland
 * A United Kingdom
 * Victoria & Abdul
 * The Zookeeper's Wife
 * 2018 Boy Erased
 * BlacKkKlansman
 * Chappaquiddick
 * 55 Steps
 * The Front Runner
 * Green Book
 * On the Basis of Sex
 * Outlaw King
 * 22 July
 * Vice
 * The Young Karl Marx
 * 2019 15 Minutes of War and The Invisibles
 * Ashes in the Snow
 * Brian Banks
 * Capernaum
 * Dark Waters
 * Go for Broke
 * Harriet
 * I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
 * The Innocents
 * Just Mercy
 * Mob Town
 * Official Secrets
 * Red Joan
 * The Report
 * Richard Jewell
 * Seberg
 * Skin
 * Saint Judy
 * The Two Popes

2020s

 * 2020
 * The Banker
 * Burden
 * Sorry We Missed You
 * 2021 Wife of a Spy
 * American Traitor
 * Betrayed
 * Blue Bayou
 * The Courier
 * De Gaulle
 * Held for Ransom
 * Hive
 * The Last Duel
 * The Last Forest
 * Margrete: Queen of the North
 * Operation Curveball
 * Peepal Tree
 * The Last Duel
 * The Rescue
 * 2022 She Said
 * Donbass
 * Emancipation
 * Holy Spider
 * Operation Mincemeat
 * Unsilenced
 * 2023 Chevalier
 * Aurora's Sunrise
 * The Burial
 * Golda
 * Killers of the Flower Moon
 * La Cyndicaliste
 * On Sacred Ground
 * Oppenheimer
 * Rustin
 * Sweetwater
 * The Wind and the Reckoning
 * Women Talking