Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

The page lists all films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary and received this award. The first Oscar in this category in 1942 was awarded for films of the year 1941.

1942-1950

1951-1960

1961-1970

1971-1980

1981-1990

1991-2000

2001-2010

2011 -

14th Academy Awards National Film Board of Canada Adventure in the Bronx Bomber (1941 film) Christmas Under Fire A Letter from Home (film) 20th Century Fox Life of a Thoroughbred Norway in Revolt Philadelphia Housing Authority A Place to Live Soldiers of the Sky Warclouds in the Pacific 15th Academy Awards 16th Academy Awards Children of Mars Plan for Destruction United States Office of War Information To the People of the United States The March of Time Youth in Crisis 17th Academy Awards With the Marines at Tarawa Hymn of the Nations 18th Academy Awards Hitler Lives To the Shores of Iwo Jima 19th Academy Awards United States Department of War Seeds of Destiny Atomic Power (film) 20th Academy Awards First Steps (1947 film) 21st Academy Awards Heart to Heart (1949 film) 22nd Academy Awards So Much for So Little 23rd Academy Awards 24th Academy Awards Fred Zinnemann Gordon Hollingshead 25th Academy Awards Norman McLaren Neighbours (film) Devil Take Us Stephen Bosustow Man Alive! 26th Academy Awards John Adams 27th Academy Awards Otto Lang (film producer) 28th Academy Awards Dore Schary The Face of Lincoln Louis Clyde Stoumen The True Story of the Civil War Charles Guggenheim Valentine Davies Ward Kimball 30th Academy Awards 31st Academy Awards Ben Sharpsteen Ian Ferguson (canoeist) Tom Daly (filmmaker) Thorold Dickinson 32nd Academy Awards Bert Haanstra Glass (film) 33rd Academy Awards Altina Schinasi 34th Academy Awards 35th Academy Awards Dylan Thomas (Film) William L. Hendricks Robert Saudek 36th Academy Awards Edgar Anstey 37th Academy Awards Nine from Little Rock John Korty Geoffrey Scott (actor) 38th Academy Awards 39th Academy Awards 40th Academy Awards Mark Jonathan Harris A Place to Stand (film) 41st Academy Awards Saul Bass Why Man Creates The House That Ananda Built 42nd Academy Awards Denis Sanders Robert M. Fresco Czechoslovakia 1968 The Magic Machines 43rd Academy Awards Joseph Strick Interviews with My Lai Veterans 44th Academy Awards Sentinels of Silence Hal Riney Somebody Waiting 45th Academy Awards Peter Schamoni Hundertwasser's Rainy Day 46th Academy Awards Terry Sanders June Wayne 47th Academy Awards Naked Yoga (film) 48th Academy Awards 49th Academy Awards Lynne Littman 50th Academy Awards Gravity Is My Enemy The Flight of the Gossamer Condor An Encounter with Faces 52nd Academy Awards Phillip Borsos 53rd Academy Awards Pen Densham George W. Casey, Jr. The Eruption of Mount St. Helens! 54th Academy Awards Terre Nash If You Love This Planet Freida Lee Mock 56th Academy Awards Cynthia Scott Sewing Woman 57th Academy Awards The Stone Carvers (Film) Irina Kalinina 58th Academy Awards The Wizard of the Strings 59th Academy Awards Tom Neff Madeline Bell Sam (1986 film) 60th Academy Awards Young at Heart (1987 film) In the Wee Wee Hours... 61st Academy Awards Bill Guttentag 62nd Academy Awards The Johnstown Flood (1989 film) David Petersen (composer) 63rd Academy Awards Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo 64th Academy Awards Éric Valli A Little Vicious 65th Academy Awards Educating Peter Dorothy Fadiman 66th Academy Awards Margaret Lazarus Defending Our Lives Chicks in White Satin 67th Academy Awards Dee Mosbacher Frances Reid (director) Straight from the Heart (1994 film) 68th Academy Awards The Living Sea 69th Academy Awards Ben Burtt 70th Academy Awards A Story of Healing Amazon (1997 film) 71st Academy Awards A Place in the Land Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square 72nd Academy Awards King Gimp 73rd Academy Awards Big Mama (Film) Curtain Call (2000 film) Dolphins (2000 film) Eric Simonson 74th Academy Awards Thoth (Film) 75th Academy Awards Twin Towers (Film) The Collector of Bedford Street 76th Academy Awards Chernobyl Heart Ferry Tales 77th Academy Awards Autism is a World 78th Academy Awards God Sleeps in Rwanda The Mushroom Club Thomas Lennon (actor) Leslie Iwerks Recycled Life Cynthia Wade Freeheld James Longley (filmmaker) 81st Academy Awards Megan Mylan Irene Taylor Brodsky The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 82nd Academy Awards Roger Ross Williams Elinor Burkett Music by Prudence Jon Alpert Rabbit à la Berlin 83rd Academy Awards Strangers No More Killing in the Name (film) Poster Girl (film) The Warriors of Qiugang 84th Academy Awards Saving Face (2012 film) God Is the Bigger Elvis Incident in New Baghdad Lucy Walker (director) The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Sean Fine Kings Point (Film) Redemption (2012 film) The Lady in Number 6 Sara Ishaq Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Best Assistant Director Academy Award for Best Story Academy Award for Best Dance Direction
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