Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Short Subjects, one-reel" and "Short Subjects, two-reel". A third category "Short Subjects, color" was used only for 1936 and 1937. From the initiation of short subject awards for 1932 until 1935 the terms were "Short Subjects, comedy" and "Short subjects, novelty".

1940s

• 1940
• (One-Reel) Pete Smith - Quicker N a Wink
• (Two-Reel) Warner Bros - Teddy, the Rough Rider
• 1941
• (One-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Of Pups and Puzzles
• (Two-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Main Street on the March!
• 1942
• (One-Reel) Paramount - Speaking of Animals and Their Families
• (Two-Reel) Warner Bros. - Beyond the Line of Duty
• 1943
• (One-Reel) Grantland Rice - Amphibious Fighters
• (Two-Reel) Jerry Bresler, Sam Coslow - Heavenly Music
• 1944
• (One-Reel) Jerry Fairbanks - Who's Who in Animal Land
• (Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - I Won't Play
• 1945
• (One-Reel) Herbert Moulton, Jerry Bresler - Stairway to Light
• (Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - Star in the Night
• 1946
• (One-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - Facing Your Danger
• (Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - A Boy and His Dog
• 1947
• (One-Reel) Herbert Moulton - Good-Bye Miss Turlock
• (Two-Reel) Irving Allen - Climbing the Matterhorn
• 1948
• (One-Reel) Edmund H. Reek - Symphony of a City
• (Two-Reel) Walt Disney - Seal Island
• 1949
• (One-Reel) Jack Eaton - Aquatic House-Party
• (Two-Reel) Gaston Diehl, Robert Haessens - Van Gogh