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Best Documentary Short

Documentary · 83 ceremonies · 1941-present

2025 (98TH)
Poster for All the Empty Rooms
Joshua Seftel, Conall Jones
All the Empty Rooms
2024 (97TH)
Poster for The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Molly O'Brien, Lisa Remington
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
2023 (96TH)
Poster for The Last Repair Shop
Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers
The Last Repair Shop
2022 (95TH)
Poster for The Elephant Whisperers
Kartiki Gonsalves, Guneet Monga
The Elephant Whisperers
2021 (94TH)
Poster for The Queen of Basketball
Ben Proudfoot
The Queen of Basketball
2025 (98th)
Best Documentary Short Film
Joshua Seftel, Conall Jones
All the Empty Rooms
Craig Renaud, Juan Arredondo
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Hilla Medalia, Sheila Nevins
Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
Christalyn Hampton, Geeta Gandbhir
The Devil Is Busy
Alison McAlpine
Perfectly a Strangeness
2024 (97th)
Best Documentary Short Film
Molly O'Brien, Lisa Remington
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Kim A. Snyder, Janique L. Robillard
Death by Numbers
Smriti Mundhra, Maya Gnyp
I Am Ready, Warden
Bill Morrison, Jamie Kalven
Incident
Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Eric Nyari
Instruments of a Beating Heart
2023 (96th)
Best Documentary Short Film
Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers
The Last Repair Shop
Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic
The ABCs of Book Banning
John Hoffman, Christine Turner
The Barber of Little Rock
S. Leo Chiang, Jean Tsien
Island in Between
Sean Wang, Sam Davis
Nai Nai & Wài Pó
2022 (95th)
Best Documentary Short Film
Kartiki Gonsalves, Guneet Monga
The Elephant Whisperers
Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev
Haulout
Jay Rosenblatt
How Do You Measure a Year?
Anne Alvergue, Beth Levison
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Joshua Seftel, Conall Jones
Stranger at the Gate
2021 (94th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Ben Proudfoot
The Queen of Basketball
Matt Ogens, Geoff McLean
Audible
Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk
Lead Me Home
Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei
Three Songs for Benazir
Jay Rosenblatt
When We Were Bullies
2020 (93rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Anthony Giacchino, Alice Doyard
Colette
Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Anders Hammer, Charlotte Cook
Do Not Split
Skye Fitzgerald, Michael Scheuerman
Hunger Ward
Sophia Nahli Allison, Janice Duncan
A Love Song for Latasha
2019 (92nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Yi Seung-Jun, Gary Byung-Seok Kam
In the Absence
John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson
Life Overtakes Me
Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan
St. Louis Superman
Laura Nix, Colette Sandstedt
Walk Run Cha-Cha
2018 (91st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Rayka Zehtabchi, Melissa Berton
Period. End of Sentence.
Ed Perkins, Jonathan Chinn
Black Sheep
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
End Game
Skye Fitzgerald, Bryn Mooser
Lifeboat
Marshall Curry
A Night at The Garden
2017 (90th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Frank Stiefel
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright
Edith+Eddie
Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon
Heroin(e)
Thomas Lennon
Knife Skills
Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Traffic Stop
2016 (89th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara
The White Helmets
Dan Krauss
Extremis
Daphne Matziaraki
4.1 Miles
Kahane Cooperman, Raphaela Neihausen
Joe's Violin
Marcel Mettelsiefen, Stephen Ellis
Watani: My Homeland
2015 (88th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
David Darg, Bryn Mooser
Body Team 12
Courtney Marsh, Jerry Franck
Chau, beyond the Lines
Adam Benzine
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman
Last Day of Freedom
2014 (87th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Aneta Kopacz
Joanna
Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki
Our Curse
Gabriel Serra Arguello
The Reaper (La Parka)
J. Christian Jensen
White Earth
2013 (86th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Jeffrey Karoff
CaveDigger
Jason Cohen
Facing Fear
Sara Ishaq
Karama Has No Walls
Edgar Barens
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
2012 (85th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
Inocente
Sari Gilman, Jedd Wider
Kings Point
Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan
Mondays at Racine
Kief Davidson, Cori Shepherd Stern
Open Heart
Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Redemption
2011 (84th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Saving Face
Robin Fryday, Gail Dolgin
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
Rebecca Cammisa, Julie Anderson
God Is the Bigger Elvis
James Spione
Incident in New Baghdad
Lucy Walker, Kira Carstensen
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
2010 (83rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Strangers No More
Jed Rothstein
Killing in the Name
Sara Nesson, Mitchell W. Block
Poster Girl
Jennifer Redfearn, Tim Metzger
Sun Come Up
Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
The Warriors of Qiugang
2009 (82nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett
Music by Prudence
Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Bartek Konopka, Anna Wydra
Rabbit à la Berlin
2008 (81st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Megan Mylan
Smile Pinki
Steven Okazaki
The Conscience of Nhem En
Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
The Final Inch
Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
2007 (80th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth
Freeheld
Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega
La Corona (The Crown)
Tim Sternberg, Francisco Bello
Salim Baba
James Longley
Sari's Mother
2006 (79th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad
Recycled Life
Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Rehearsing a Dream
Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr
Two Hands
2005 (78th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Dan Krauss
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
God Sleeps in Rwanda
Steven Okazaki
The Mushroom Club
2004 (77th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
Mighty Times: The Children's March
Gerardine Wurzburg
Autism Is a World
Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski
The Children of Leningradsky
Hubert Davis, Erin Faith Young
Hardwood
Oren Jacoby, Steve Kalafer
Sister Rose's Passion
2003 (76th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Maryann DeLeo
Chernobyl Heart
Sandy McLeod, Gini Reticker
Asylum
Katja Esson
Ferry Tales
2002 (75th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port
Twin Towers
Alice Elliott
The Collector of Bedford Street
Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
2001 (74th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Sarah Kernochan, Lynn Appelle
Thoth
Lianne Klapper McNally
Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Freida Lee Mock, Jessica Sanders
Sing!
2000 (73rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Tracy Seretean
Big Mama
Chuck Braverman, Steve Kalafer
Curtain Call
Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
Dolphins
Daniel Raim
The Man on Lincoln's Nose
Eric Simonson, Leelai Demoz
On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
1999 (72nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
King Gimp
Bert Van Bork
Eyewitness
Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
1998 (71st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Keiko Ibi
The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
Charles Guggenheim
A Place in the Land
Shui-Bo Wang, Donald McWilliams
Sunrise over Tiananmen Square
1997 (70th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
A Story of Healing
George Casey, Paul Novros
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Kieth Merrill, Jonathan Stern
Amazon
Terri Randall
Daughter of the Bride
Mel Damski, Andrea Blaugrund
Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
1996 (69th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Jessica Yu
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Jeffrey Marvin, Bayley Silleck
Cosmic Voyage
Perry Wolff
An Essay on Matisse
Susanne Simpson, Ben Burtt
Special Effects
Paul Seydor, Nick Redman
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1995 (68th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Kary Antholis
One Survivor Remembers
Nancy Dine, Richard Stilwell
Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls
Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
The Living Sea
Terry Sanders, Freida Lee Mock
Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
Charles Guggenheim
The Shadow of Hate
1994 (67th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Charles Guggenheim
A Time for Justice
Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag
Blues Highway
Marcel Lozinski
89mm od Europy (89mm from Europe)
Robert Richter
School of Assassins
Dee Mosbacher, Frances Reid
Straight from the Heart
1993 (66th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
Defending Our Lives
Steven Cantor, Peter Spirer
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Elaine Holliman, Jason Schneider
Chicks in White Satin
1992 (65th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg
Educating Peter
Geoffrey O'Connor
At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai
Wendy L. Weinberg
Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review'
Richard Elson, Sally Bochner
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein
Dorothy Fadiman
When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories
1991 (64th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Debra Chasnoff
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
Eric Valli, Alain Majani
Birdnesters of Thailand (aka 'Shadow Hunters')
Immy Humes
A Little Vicious
David McGowan
The Mark of the Maker
Bill Couturié, Bernard Edelman
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1990 (63rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Steven Okazaki
Days of Waiting
Kit Thomas
Burning Down Tomorrow
Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Chimps: So Like Us
Derek Bromhall
Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn
Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
1989 (62nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Charles Guggenheim
The Johnstown Flood
David Petersen
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
Ray Errol Fox
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future
1988 (61st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
William Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke
You Don't Have to Die
Karen Goodman
The Children's Storefront
Lise Yasui, Ann Tegnell
Family Gathering
Thomas B. Fleming, Daniel J. Marks
Gang Cops
Nancy Hale, Meg Partridge
Portrait of Imogen
1987 (60th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Sue Marx, Pamela Conn
Young at Heart
Deborah Dickson
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
Dr. Frank Daniel, Izak Ben-Meir
In the Wee Wee Hours...
Megan Williams
Language Says It All
Lynn Mueller
Silver into Gold
1986 (59th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Vivienne Verdon-Roe
Women--for America, for the World
Alison Nigh-Strelich
Debonair Dancers
Sonya Friedman
The Masters of Disaster
Thomas L. Neff, Madeline Bell
Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
Aaron D. Weisblatt
Sam
1985 (58th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
David Goodman
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
Robert Gardner
The Courage to Care
Michael Crowley, James Wolpaw
Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
Barbara Willis Sweete
Making Overtures--The Story of a Community Orchestra
Alan Edelstein
The Wizard of the Strings
1984 (57th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner
The Stone Carvers
Gary Bush, Paul T.K. Lin
The Children of Soong Ching Ling
Ben Achtenberg, Joan Sawyer
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
Lawrence R. Hott, Roger M. Sherman
The Garden of Eden
Irina Kalinina
Recollections of Pavlovsk
1983 (56th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Cynthia Scott, Adam Symansky
Flamenco at 5:15
Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thiermann
In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
Arthur Dong
Sewing Woman
Robert Eisenhardt
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Dea Brokman, Ilene Landis
You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei)
1982 (55th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Edward Le Lorrain, Terri Nash
If You Love This Planet
Robert Richter
Gods of Metal
Charles Guggenheim, Werner Schumann
The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
Freida Lee Mock
To Live or Let Die
John G. Avildsen
Traveling Hopefully
1981 (54th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Nigel Noble
Close Harmony
Obie Benz
Americas in Transition
Dick Young
Journey for Survival
Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc, Freddi Stevens
See What I Say
Roland Hallé, John Hoover
Urge to Build
1980 (53rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Roland Hallé, Peter W. Ladue
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
John Watson, Pen Densham
Don't Mess with Bill
George Casey
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
Dick Young
It's the Same World
Richard Hawkins, Jorge Preloran
Luther Metke at 94
1979 (52nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Saul J. Turell
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Risto Teofilovski
Dae
Donald A. Connolly, James R. Messenger
Koryo Celadon
Phillip Borsos
Nails
Dick Young
Remember Me
1978 (51st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, Ben Shedd
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
Jerry Aronson
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
K.K. Kapil
An Encounter with Faces
August Cinquegrana
Goodnight Miss Ann
J. Gary Mitchell
Squires of San Quentin
1977 (50th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
John Joseph, Jan Stussy
Gravity Is My Enemy
Moctesuma Esparza
Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
Helen Whitney, DeWitt L. Sage Jr.
First Edition
James R. Messenger, Paul N. Raimondi
Of Time, Tombs and Treasure
Douglas Gordon
The Shetland Experience
1976 (49th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Lynne Littman
Number Our Days
Sparky Greene
American Shoeshine
Tony Ianzelo, Andy Thomson
Blackwood
John Armstrong
The End of the Road
Lester Novros
Universe
1975 (48th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Claire Wilbur, Robin Lehman
The End of the Game
Jon Else, Steven Kovacs, Kristine Samuelson
Arthur and Lillie
Manfred Baier
Millions of Years Ahead of Man
George V. Casey
Probes in Space
Barrie Howells, Michael Scott
Whistling Smith
1974 (47th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Robin Lehman
Don't
Francis Thompson
City Out of Wilderness
Jon Boorstin
Exploratorium
Dewitt Jones, Lesley Foster
John Muir's High Sierra
Ronald S. Kass, Mervyn Lloyd
Naked Yoga
1973 (46th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Julian Krainin, DeWitt L. Sage Jr.
Princeton: A Search for Answers
Carmen D'Avino
Background
Louis Marcus
Children at Work (Paisti Ag Obair)
Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Christo's Valley Curtain
Terry Sanders, June Wayne
Four Stones for Kanemitsu
1972 (45th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Martina Huguenot van der Linden
This Tiny World
Peter Schamoni
Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
Giorgio Treves
K-Z
Tadeusz Jaworski
Selling Out
Humphrey Swingler
The Tide of Traffic
1971 (44th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Manuel Arango, Robert Amram
Sentinels of Silence
Han van Gelder
Adventures in Perception
Julian Krainin, DeWitt L. Sage Jr.
Art Is...
Donald Wrye
The Numbers Start with the River
Hal Riney, Dick Snider, Sherwood Omens
Somebody Waiting
1970 (43rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Joseph Strick
Interviews with My Lai Veterans
Robert McBride
The Gifts
Bob Aller
A Long Way from Nowhere
Vivien Carey, Patrick Carey
Oisin
Horst Dallmayr, Robert Menegoz
Time Is Running Out
1969 (42nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Denis Sanders, Robert M. Fresco
Czechoslovakia 1968
Donald Wrye
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
Joan Horvath
Jenny Is a Good Thing
Arthur H. Wolf, Russell A. Mosser
Leo Beuerman
Joan Keller Stern
The Magic Machines
1968 (41st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Saul Bass
Why Man Creates
Fali Bilimoria
The House That Ananda Built
Lee R. Bobker
The Revolving Door
Thomas P. Kelly Jr.
A Space to Grow
Dan E. Weisburd
A Way Out of the Wilderness
1967 (40th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Mark Harris, Trevor Greenwood
The Redwoods
Charles E. Guggenheim
Monument to the Dream
Christopher Chapman
A Place to Stand
Robert Fitchett
See You at the Pillar
Carl V. Ragsdale
While I Run This Race
1966 (39th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Edmond A. Levy
A Year toward Tomorrow
Marin Karmitz, Vladimir Forgency
Adolescence
Michael Ahnemann, Gary Schlosser
Cowboy
Lee R. Bobker, Helen Kristt Radin
The Odds Against
Mafilm Studio
Saint Matthew Passion
1965 (38th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Francis Thompson
To Be Alive!
Kirk Smallman
Mural on Our Street
Mafilm Productions
Ouverture
Vision Associates Productions
Point of View
Patrick Carey, Joe Mendoza
Yeats Country
1964 (37th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Charles Guggenheim
Nine from Little Rock
Henry Jacobs, John Korty
Breaking the Habit
Charles Guggenheim
Children Without
National Film Board of Canada
Kenojuak
Geoffrey Scott, Oxley Hughan
140 Days under the World
1963 (36th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Simon Schiffrin
Chagall
George Stevens Jr.
The Five Cities of June
Algernon G. Walker
The Spirit of America
Edgar Anstey
Thirty Million Letters
Mel London
To Live Again
1962 (35th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Jack Howells
Dylan Thomas
William L. Hendricks
The John Glenn Story
Robert Saudek
The Road to the Wall
1961 (34th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Frank P. Bibas
Project Hope
United States Air Force
Breaking the Language Barrier
Jim O'Connor, Tom Hayes
Cradle of Genius
Dido-Film-GmbH
Kahl
Benedetto Benedetti
L'Uomo in Grigio (The Man in Gray)
1960 (33rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
James Hill
Giuseppina
United States Information Agency
Beyond Silence
Statens Filmcentral, The Danish Government Film Office
A City Called Copenhagen
Charles Carey, Altina Carey
George Grosz' Interregnum
Colin Low
Universe
1959 (32nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Bert Haanstra
Glass
Walt Disney
Donald in Mathmagic Land
Edward F. Cullen
From Generation to Generation
1958 (31st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Ben Sharpsteen
Ama Girls
Kenneth G. Brown
Employees Only
Ian Ferguson
Journey into Spring
Tom Daly
The Living Stone
Thorold Dickinson
Overture
1956 (29th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Louis Clyde Stoumen
The True Story of the Civil War
Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.
A City Decides
John Healy
The Dark Wave
Valentine Davies
The House without a Name
Ward Kimball
Man in Space
1955 (28th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Walt Disney
Men against the Arctic
Dore Schary
The Battle of Gettysburg
Wilbur T. Blume
The Face of Lincoln
1954 (27th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
World Wide Pictures, Morse Films
Thursday's Children
Otto Lang
Jet Carrier
Morrie Roizman
Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1953 (26th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Walt Disney
The Alaskan Eskimo
John Barnes
The Living City
United States Army Signal Corps
Operation Blue Jay
James Carr
They Planted a Stone
John Healy, John Adams
The Word
1952 (25th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Norman McLaren
Neighbours
Herbert Morgan
Devil Take Us
Alberto Ancilotto
The Garden Spider (Epeira Diadema)
Stephen Bosustow
Man Alive!
1951 (24th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Fred Zinnemann
Benjy
Owen Crump
One Who Came Back
Gordon Hollingshead
The Seeing Eye
1950 (23rd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Edmund Reek
Why Korea?
Guy Glover
The Fight: Science against Cancer
Film Documents, Inc.
The Stairs
1949 (22nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Richard de Rochemont
A Chance to Live 
Edward Selzer
So Much for So Little 
French Cinema General Cooperative
1848
St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
The Rising Tide
1948 (21st)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
United States Army
Toward Independence
Herbert Morgan
Heart to Heart
United States Army Air Force
Operation Vittles
1947 (20th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
First Steps
Frederic Ullman Jr.
Passport to Nowhere
Australian News & Information Bureau
School in the Mailbox
1946 (19th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
United States Department of War
Seeds of Destiny
The March of Time
Atomic Power
Artkino
Life at the Zoo
Paramount
Paramount News Issue #37 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue! 1927.....1947)
Herbert Morgan
Traffic with the Devil
1945 (18th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Gordon Hollingshead
Hitler Lives?
United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
Library of Congress
United States Marine Corps
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
1944 (17th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
United States Marine Corps
With the Marines at Tarawa
United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
Arturo Toscanini
RKO Radio
New Americans
1943 (16th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
United States Navy
December 7th
RKO Radio
Children of Mars
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Plan for Destruction
United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
Swedes in America
Walter Wanger
To the People of the United States
United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Tomorrow We Fly
The March of Time
Youth in Crisis
1941 (14th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
National Film Board of Canada
Churchill's Island
Film Associates
Adventure in the Bronx
United States Office for Emergency Management Film Unit
Bomber
British Ministry of Information
Christmas under Fire
British Ministry of Information
Letter from Home
Truman Talley
Life of a Thoroughbred
The March of Time
Norway in Revolt
Philadelphia Housing Association
A Place to Live
Amkino
Russian Soil
Truman Talley
Soldiers of the Sky
National Film Board of Canada
War Clouds in the Pacific
#
1Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer109120
2Walt Disney325922
3Paramount105611
4RKO Radio20393
5Gordon Hollingshead21237
6Stephen Bosustow10143
7Charles E. Guggenheim93124
8Edward Selzer11115
9Ben Burtt10113
10Fred Zinnemann11104
11National Film Board of Canada3191
12Edmund Reek1173
13Dore Schary1061
14Herbert Morgan3060
15Bill Guttentag3252
16Terry Sanders3052
17British Ministry of Information2051
18Freida Lee Mock4051
19Tom Daly1050
20United States Air Force2050
21Thomas Lennon3141
22Marshall Curry1041
23Karen Goodman4141
24Kirk Simon3141
25Steven Okazaki3141
26Julia Reichert1041
27Valentine Davies1041
28George Casey3040
29Otto Lang1040
30The March of Time3040
31United States Navy1133
32Malcolm Clarke2232
33Ben Proudfoot3232
34Robin Lehman2232
35Louis Clyde Stoumen1132
36Rob Epstein1032
37Ben Sharpsteen1132
38Edgar Anstey1031
39Saul Bass1131
40Norman McLaren1131
41Bert Haanstra1131
42Kris Bowers2131
43Joanna Natasegara1131
44United States Army1131
45Julian Krainin2131
46DeWitt L. Sage Jr.3131
47Steve Kalafer2030
48United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau3030
49Frederic Ullman Jr.1030
50Guy Glover1030
51United States Army Signal Corps1030
52Ian Ferguson1030
53James Carr1030
54Deborah Dickson1030
55Vince DiPersio1030
56John Healy2030
57Dick Young3030
58Sarah Kernochan1122
59Denis Sanders1122
60Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy2222
61Robert Amram1122
62Manuel Arango1122
63Mark Harris1122
64Artkino1021
65Ward Kimball1021
66Kieth Merrill1021
67James Hill1121
68Sam Davis1021
69Claire Wilbur1121
70Australian News & Information Bureau1021
71John G. Avildsen1021
72Eric Simonson2121
73Bobby Houston2121
74Robert Hudson2121
75Ruby Yang2121
76Charles Huguenot van der Linden1121
77Martina Huguenot van der Linden1121
78Sean Fine1121
79Andrea Nix Fine1121
80Cynthia Wade2121
81Roland Hallé2121
82Roger Ross Williams1121
83Daniel Junge2121
84United States Marine Corps2121
85Steven Bognar1021
86John Korty1021
87Francis Thompson2121
88Vivienne Verdon-Roe2121
89Orlando von Einsiedel1121
90Christopher Chapman1021
91Joseph Strick1121
92Joan Keller Stern1021
93Bill Couturié1021
94Conall Jones2121
95Joshua Seftel2121
96Wilbur T. Blume1021
97Gerardine Wurzburg2121
98Tony Ianzelo1020
99Pen Densham1020
100Smriti Mundhra2020
101Jonathan Stack1020
102Lawrence R. Hott1020
103Donald Wrye2020
104Lee R. Bobker2020
105Lucy Walker1020
106Jon Else1020
107Kristine Samuelson2020
108Frances Reid1020
109Colin Low1020
110Trish Adlesic1020
111Dewitt Jones1020
112Geeta Gandbhir1020
113Sheila Nevins2020
114Susanne Simpson1020
115Susan Rose Behr1020
116Truman Talley2020
117Jay Rosenblatt2020
118Maciej Slesicki1020
119Carmen D'Avino1020
120Roger Weisberg1020
121Alec Lorimore2020
122Greg MacGillivray2020
123Louis Marcus1020
124John Watson1020
125Nathaniel Kahn1020
126Robert Richter2020
127James Longley1020
128Walter Wanger1020
129Bryn Mooser2020
130Mafilm Productions2020
131Dan Krauss2020
132Michael Scott1020
133Skye Fitzgerald2020
134Rebecca Cammisa1020
135James R. Messenger2020
136Patrick Carey2020
137Jon Alpert2020
138Matthew O'Neill2020
139Eric Nyari1020
140Gail Dolgin1020
141Carol Pasternak1111
142Donna Dewey1111
143Jessica Yu1111
144Morse Films1111
145World Wide Pictures1111
146Guneet Monga1111
147Kartiki Gonsalves1111
148Margaret Lazarus1111
149Vanessa Roth1111
150Simon Schiffrin1111
151Saul J. Turell1111
152Megan Mylan1111
153Ben Shedd1111
154Peter W. Ladue1111
155Renner Wunderlich1111
156Elinor Burkett1111
157Thomas C. Goodwin1111
158Molly O'Brien1111
159Lisa Remington1111
160Corinne Marrinan1111
161Nigel Noble1111
162Kary Antholis1111
163Jacqueline Phillips Shedd1111
164United States Department of War1111
165Jack Howells1111
166Edward Le Lorrain1111
167Terri Nash1111
168United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information1111
169Jan Stussy1111
170Adam Symansky1111
171Cynthia Scott1111
172Nicholas Reed1111
173Debra Chasnoff1111
174John Joseph1111
175Maryann DeLeo1111
176Dana Perry1111
177Ellen Goosenberg Kent1111
178Edmond A. Levy1111
179Marjorie Hunt1111
180Paul Wagner1111
181Richard de Rochemont1111
182Robert David Port1111
183Lynn Appelle1111
184Frank P. Bibas1111
185David Goodman1111
186Frank Stiefel1111
187Trevor Greenwood1111
188Lynne Littman1111
189Tracy Seretean1111
190Melissa Berton1111
191Rayka Zehtabchi1111
192Susan Hannah Hadary1111
193William A. Whiteford1111
194Carol Dysinger1111
195Elena Andreicheva1111
196Keiko Ibi1111
197Pamela Conn1111
198Sue Marx1111
199Robert M. Fresco1111
200Anthony Giacchino1111
201Alice Doyard1111
202Tim Metzger1010
203Jennifer Redfearn1010
204Robin Fryday1010
205Julie Anderson1010
206James Spione1010
207Kira Carstensen1010
208Jedd Wider1010
209Sari Gilman1010
210Robin Honan1010
211Kief Davidson1010
212Cori Shepherd Stern1010
213Jeffrey Karoff1010
214Jason Cohen1010
215Sara Ishaq1010
216Edgar Barens1010
217Aneta Kopacz1010
218Tomasz Sliwinski1010
219Gabriel Serra Arguello1010
220J. Christian Jensen1010
221David Darg1010
222Jerry Franck1010
223Courtney Marsh1010
224Adam Benzine1010
225Dee Hibbert-Jones1010
226Nomi Talisman1010
227Daphne Matziaraki1010
228Raphaela Neihausen1010
229Kahane Cooperman1010
230Marcel Mettelsiefen1010
231Stephen Ellis1010
232Thomas Lee Wright1010
233Laura Checkoway1010
234Elaine McMillion Sheldon1010
235Kerrin Sheldon1010
236David Heilbroner1010
237Kate Davis1010
238Jonathan Chinn1010
239Ed Perkins1010
240Jeffrey Friedman1010
241Gary Byung-Seok Kam1010
242Yi Seung-Jun1010
243John Haptas1010
244Sami Khan1010
245Laura Nix1010
246Colette Sandstedt1010
247Charlotte Cook1010
248Anders Hammer1010
249Michael Scheuerman1010
250Sophia Nahli Allison1010
251Janice Duncan1010
252Geoff McLean1010
253Matt Ogens1010
254Pedro Kos1010
255Jon Shenk1010
256Gulistan Mirzaei1010
257Elizabeth Mirzaei1010
258Maxim Arbugaev1010
259Evgenia Arbugaeva1010
260Beth Levison1010
261Anne Alvergue1010
262Janique L. Robillard1010
263Kim A. Snyder1010
264Maya Gnyp1010
265Bill Morrison1010
266Jamie Kalven1010
267Ema Ryan Yamazaki1010
268Juan Arredondo1010
269Craig Renaud1010
270Hilla Medalia1010
271Christalyn Hampton1010
272Alison McAlpine1010
273John Hoffman1010
274Christine Turner1010
275S. Leo Chiang1010
276Jean Tsien1010
277Sean Wang1010
278Film Associates1010
279United States Office for Emergency Management Film Unit1010
280Philadelphia Housing Association1010
281Amkino1010
282United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics1010
283French Cinema General Cooperative1010
284St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia1010
285Film Documents, Inc.1010
286Owen Crump1010
287Alberto Ancilotto1010
288John Barnes1010
289John Adams1010
290Morrie Roizman1010
291Kenneth G. Brown1010
292Thorold Dickinson1010
293Edward F. Cullen1010
294United States Information Agency1010
295The Danish Government Film Office1010
296Statens Filmcentral1010
297Altina Carey1010
298Charles Carey1010
299Tom Hayes1010
300Jim O'Connor1010
301Dido-Film-GmbH1010
302Benedetto Benedetti1010
303William L. Hendricks1010
304Robert Saudek1010
305George Stevens Jr.1010
306Algernon G. Walker1010
307Mel London1010
308Henry Jacobs1010
309Geoffrey Scott1010
310Oxley Hughan1010
311Kirk Smallman1010
312Vision Associates Productions1010
313Joe Mendoza1010
314Vladimir Forgency1010
315Marin Karmitz1010
316Gary Schlosser1010
317Michael Ahnemann1010
318Helen Kristt Radin1010
319Robert Fitchett1010
320Carl V. Ragsdale1010
321Fali Bilimoria1010
322Thomas P. Kelly Jr.1010
323Dan E. Weisburd1010
324Joan Horvath1010
325Arthur H. Wolf1010
326Russell A. Mosser1010
327Robert McBride1010
328Bob Aller1010
329Vivien Carey1010
330Robert Menegoz1010
331Horst Dallmayr1010
332Han van Gelder1010
333Hal Riney1010
334Sherwood Omens1010
335Dick Snider1010
336Peter Schamoni1010
337Giorgio Treves1010
338Tadeusz Jaworski1010
339Humphrey Swingler1010
340David Maysles1010
341Albert Maysles1010
342June Wayne1010
343Jon Boorstin1010
344Lesley Foster1010
345Ronald S. Kass1010
346Mervyn Lloyd1010
347Steven Kovacs1010
348Manfred Baier1010
349Barrie Howells1010
350Sparky Greene1010
351Andy Thomson1010
352John Armstrong1010
353Lester Novros1010
354Moctesuma Esparza1010
355Helen Whitney1010
356Paul N. Raimondi1010
357Douglas Gordon1010
358Jerry Aronson1010
359K.K. Kapil1010
360August Cinquegrana1010
361J. Gary Mitchell1010
362Risto Teofilovski1010
363Donald A. Connolly1010
364Phillip Borsos1010
365Jorge Preloran1010
366Richard Hawkins1010
367Obie Benz1010
368Linda Chapman1010
369Freddi Stevens1010
370Pam LeBlanc1010
371John Hoover1010
372Werner Schumann1010
373Eric Thiermann1010
374Arthur Dong1010
375Robert Eisenhardt1010
376Ilene Landis1010
377Dea Brokman1010
378Paul T.K. Lin1010
379Gary Bush1010
380Ben Achtenberg1010
381Joan Sawyer1010
382Roger M. Sherman1010
383Irina Kalinina1010
384Robert Gardner1010
385Michael Crowley1010
386James Wolpaw1010
387Barbara Willis Sweete1010
388Alan Edelstein1010
389Alison Nigh-Strelich1010
390Sonya Friedman1010
391Madeline Bell1010
392Thomas L. Neff1010
393Aaron D. Weisblatt1010
394Dr. Frank Daniel1010
395Izak Ben-Meir1010
396Megan Williams1010
397Lynn Mueller1010
398Lise Yasui1010
399Ann Tegnell1010
400Daniel J. Marks1010
401Thomas B. Fleming1010
402Nancy Hale1010
403Meg Partridge1010
404David Petersen1010
405Ray Errol Fox1010
406Kit Thomas1010
407Derek Bromhall1010
408Eric Valli1010
409Alain Majani1010
410Immy Humes1010
411David McGowan1010
412Bernard Edelman1010
413Geoffrey O'Connor1010
414Wendy L. Weinberg1010
415Sally Bochner1010
416Richard Elson1010
417Dorothy Fadiman1010
418Steven Cantor1010
419Peter Spirer1010
420Elaine Holliman1010
421Jason Schneider1010
422Marcel Lozinski1010
423Dee Mosbacher1010
424Nancy Dine1010
425Richard Stilwell1010
426Jeffrey Marvin1010
427Bayley Silleck1010
428Perry Wolff1010
429Paul Seydor1010
430Nick Redman1010
431Paul Novros1010
432Jonathan Stern1010
433Terri Randall1010
434Mel Damski1010
435Andrea Blaugrund1010
436Shui-Bo Wang1010
437Donald McWilliams1010
438Bert Van Bork1010
439Simeon Soffer1010
440Chuck Braverman1010
441Daniel Raim1010
442Leelai Demoz1010
443Lianne Klapper McNally1010
444Jessica Sanders1010
445Alice Elliott1010
446Murray Nossel1010
447Sandy McLeod1010
448Gini Reticker1010
449Katja Esson1010
450Hanna Polak1010
451Andrzej Celinski1010
452Erin Faith Young1010
453Hubert Davis1010
454Oren Jacoby1010
455Stacy Sherman1010
456Kimberlee Acquaro1010
457Mike Glad1010
458Leslie Iwerks1010
459Amanda Micheli1010
460Isabel Vega1010
461Francisco Bello1010
462Tim Sternberg1010
463Tom Grant1010
464Irene Taylor Brodsky1010
465Adam Pertofsky1010
466Margaret Hyde1010
467Henry Ansbacher1010
468Bartek Konopka1010
469Anna Wydra1010
470Jed Rothstein1010
471Mitchell W. Block1010
472Sara Nesson1010
Known as
Best Documentary Short Film
2022-present
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
1958-2021
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
1943-1956
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
1941