Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject

This is a list of films that have received an Oscar and nomination for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and distributed in March of the following year.

Related Topics:
Oscar - Documentary

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• 1941 - Churchill's Island - National Film Board of Canada
• 1942 - none given
• 1943 - December 7th - United States Navy
• 1944 - With the Marines at Tarawa -- United States Marine Corps
• 1945 - Hitler Lives? - Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
• 1946 - Seeds of Destiny - United States Department of War
• 1947 - First Steps - United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
• 1948 - Toward Independence - United States Army
• 1949 - (tie):
• A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont, Producer
• So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer, Producer
• 1950 - Why Korea? - Edmund Reek, Producer
• 1951 - Benjy - 'Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital'
• 1952 - Neighbours - Norman McLaren, Producer
• 1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney, Producer
• 1954 - Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
• 1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney, Producer
• 1956 - The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
• 1957 - none given
• 1958 - Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
• 1959 - Glass - Bert Haanstra, Producer
• 1960 - Giuseppina - James Hill, Producer
• 1961 - Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas, Producer
• 1962 - Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells, Producer
• 1963 - Chagall - Simon Schiffrin, Producer
• 1964 - Nine from Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
• 1965 - To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson, Producer
• 1966 - A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy, Producer
• 1967 - The Redwoods - Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood, Producers
• 1968 - Why Man Creates - Saul Bass, Producer
• 1969 - Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers
• 1970 - Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick, Producer
• 1971 - Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
• 1972 - This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
• 1973 - ' - Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
• 1974 - Don't - Robin Lehman, Producer
• 1975 - The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers
• 1976 - Number Our Days - Lynne Littman and Barbara Myerhoff, Producers
• 1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph and Jan Stussy, Producers
• 1978 - The Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, Producers
• 1979 - ' - Saul J. Turell, Producer
• 1980 - ' - Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producer
• 1981 - Close Harmony - Nigel Noble, Producer
• 1982 - If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain and Terri Nash, Producers
• 1983 - ' - Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers
• 1984 - The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, Producers
• 1985 - ' - David Goodman, Producer
• 1986 - Women--for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Producer
• 1987 - Young at Heart - Sue Marx and Pamela Conn, Producers
• 1988 - You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers
• 1989 - The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
• 1990 - Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki, Producer
• 1991 - ' - Debra Chasnoff, Producer
• 1992 - Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin and Gerardine Wurzburg
• 1993 - Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
• 1994 - A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
• 1995 - One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
• 1996 - ' - Jessica Yu director, producer, writer and editor
• 2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
• 2001 - Thoth - Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle
• 2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port directors
• The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott producer and director
• ' - Tell the Truth Pictures - Robert Hudson producer - Robert Houston director
• Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel directors
• 2003 - Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
• Asylum - Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker
• Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
• 2004 ' – Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston
• Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
• The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak and Andrzej Celinski
• Hardwood – Hubert Davis and Erin Faith Young
• Sister Rose?s Passion – Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer