Oscar / Best Documentary Short Film

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The site lists all films that have been nominated for the Oscar for the best documentary short film or have received this award. The first Oscar in this category was awarded in 1942 for films made in 1941.

1942-1950

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1942 National Film Board of Canada Churchill's Island Film Associates for Adventure in the Bronx
United States Office of War Information for Bomber
British Ministry of Information for Christmas Under Fire
British Ministry of Information for A Letter from Home
20th Century Fox for Life of a Thoroughbred
The March of Time for Norway in Revolt
Philadelphia Housing Authority for A Place to Live
Amkino for Russian Soil
20th Century Fox for Soldiers of the Sky
National Film Board of Canada for Warclouds in the Pacific
1943 not forgiven
1944 United States Navy Field Photographic Branch December 7th RKO Radio for Children of Mars
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for Plan for Destruction
United States Office of War Information for Swedes in America
Walter Wanger Productions for To the People of the United States
United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics for Tomorrow We Fly
The March of Time for Youth in Crisis
1945 United States Marine Corps With the Marines at Tarawa United States Office of War Information for Hymn of the Nations
RKO Radio for New Americans
1946 Warner bros. Hitler Lives United States Office of War Information for Library of Congress
United States Marine Corps for To the Shores of Iwo Jima
1947 US War Department Seeds of Destiny 20th Century Fox for Atomic Power
Artkino Pictures for Life at the Zoo
Paramount Pictures for Paramount News Issue No. 37
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for Traffic with the Devil
1948 United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education First steps Frederic Ullman Junior for Passport to Nowhere
Australian News and Information Bureau for School in the Mailbox
1949 United States Army Toward Independence Herbert Morgan for Heart to Heart
United States Army Air Forces for Operation Vittles
1950 Richard de Rochemont
Edward Selzer
A Chance to Live
So Much for So Little
Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français for 1848
St. Francis-Xavier University Nova Scotia for The Rising Tide

1951-1960

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1951 Edmund Reek Why Korea? Guy Glover for The Fight: Science Against Cancer
Film Documents for The Stairs
1952 Fred Zinnemann Benjy Owen Crump for One Who Came Back
Gordon Hollingshead for The Seeing Eye
1953 Norman McLaren Neighbors Herbert Morgan for Devil Take Us
Alberto Ancilotto for Epeira Diadema
Stephen Bosustow for Man Alive
1954 Walt Disney The Alaskan Eskimo John Barnes for The Living City
United States Army Signal Corps for Operation Blue Jay
James Carr for They Planted a Stone
John Healy , John Adams for The Word
1955 World Wide Pictures , Morse Films Thursday's Children Otto Lang for Jet Carrier
Morrie Roizman for Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1956 Walt Disney Men Against the Arctic Dore Schary for Altina SchinasiThe Battle of Gettysburg
Wilbur T. Blume for The Face of Lincoln
1957 Louis Clyde Stoumen The True Story of the Civil War Charles Guggenheim & Assocs. for A City Decides
John Healy for The Dark Wave
Valentine Davies for The House Without a Name
Ward Kimball for Man in Space (episode 20 of the Disneyland series )
1958 not forgiven
1959 Ben Sharpsteen Ama girls Kenneth G. Brown for Employees Only
Ian Ferguson for Journey Into Spring
Tom Daly for The Living Stone
Thorold Dickinson for Overture / Overture
1960 Bert Haanstra Glass Walt Disney for Donald in Mathmagic Land
Edward F. Cullen for From Generation to Generation

1961-1970

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1961 James Hill Giuseppina United States Information Agency for Beyond Silence
Statens Filmcentral for En by ved navn København
Charles Carey , Altina Carey for George Grosz 'Interregnum
Colin Low for Der Himmel über uns
1962 Frank P. Bibas Project Hope United States Air Force for Breaking the Language Barrier
Jim O'Connor , Tom Hayes for Cradle of Genius
Dido film for Kahl
Benedetto Benedetti for L'uomo in grigio
1963 Jack Howells Dylan Thomas William L. Hendricks for The John Glenn Story
Robert Saudek for The Road to the Wall
1964 Simon Schiffrin Chagall George Stevens Junior for The Five Cities of June
Algernon G. Walker for The Spirit of America
Edgar Anstey for Thirty Million Letters
Mel London for To Live Again
1965 Guggenheim Productions Nine from Little Rock Henry Jacobs , John Korty for Breaking the Habit
Guggenheim Productions for Children Without
National Film Board of Canada for Eskimo artist Kenojuak
Geoffrey Scott , Oxley Hughan for One Hundred and Forty Days Under the World
1966 Francis Thompson To Be Alive! Kirk Smallman for Mural on Our Street
Hungarofilm for Nyitány
National Tuberculosis Association for Point of View
Patrick Carey , Joe Mendoza for The Homeland of the Poet Yeats
1967 Edmond Levy A Year Toward Tomorrow Marin Karmitz , Vladimir Forgency for Adolescence
Michael Ahnemann , Gary Schlosser for Cowboy
Lee R. Bobker Helen Kristt Radin for The Odds Against
Hungarofilm for Részletek JS Bach Máté passiójából
1968 Mark Jonathan Harris ,
Trevor Greenwood
The Redwoods Charles Guggenheim for Monument to the Dream
Christopher Chapman for A Place to Stand
Robert Fitchet for See You at the Pillar
Carl V. Ragsdale for While I Run This Race
1969 Saul Bass Why Man Creates Fali Bilimoria for The House That Ananda Built
Lee R. Bobker for The Revolving Door
Thomas P. Kelly Junior for A Space to Grow
Dan E. Weisburd for A Way Out of the Wilderness
1970 Denis Sanders , Robert M. Fresco Czechoslovakia 1968 Donald Wrye for An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
Joan Horvath for Jenny Is a Good Thing
Arthur H. Wolf , Russell A. Mosser for Leo Beuerman
Joan Keller Stern for The Magic Machines

1971-1980

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1971 Joseph Strick Interviews with My Lai Veterans Robert D. McBride for The Gifts
Bob Aller for A Long Way from Nowhere
Vivien Carey , Patrick Carey for Oisin
Horst Dallmayr , Robert Ménégoz for Time is Running Out
1972 Manuel Arango , Robert Amram Centinelas del silencio Han Van Gelder for Adventures in Perception
Julian Krainin , DeWitt Sage for Art Is…
Donald Wrye for The Numbers Start with the River
Hal Riney , Dick Snider , Woody Omens for Somebody Waiting
1973 Charles Huguenot van der Linden , Martina Huguenot van der Linden Deze small wereld Peter Schamoni for Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
Giorgio Treves for KZ
Tadeusz Jaworski for Selling Out
Humphrey Swingler for The Tide of Traffic
1974 Julian Krainin , DeWitt Sage Princeton: A Search for Answers Carmen D'Avino for Background
Louis Marcus for Paisti ag obair
Albert Maysles , David Maysles for Christo's Valley Curtain
Terry Sanders , June Wayne for Four Stones for Kanemitsu
1975 Robin Lehman Don't Francis Thompson for City Out of Wilderness
Jon Boorstin for Exploratorium
DeWitt Jones , Lesley Foster for John Muir's High Sierra
Ronald S. Kass , Mervyn Lloyd for Naked Yoga
1976 Claire Wilbur , Robin Lehman The end of the game Jon Else , Steven Kovacs , Kristine Samuelson for Arthur and Lillie
Manfred Baier for Millions of Years Ahead of Man,
George Casey for Probes in Space
Barrie Howells , Michael JF Scott for Whistling Smith
1977 Lynne Littman Number Our Days Sparky Greene for American Shoeshine
Tony Ianzelo , Andy Thomson for Blackwood
John Armstrong for The End of the Road
Lester Novros for Universe
1978 John C. Joseph , Jan Stussy Gravity Is My Enemy Moctesuma Esparza for Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
Helen Whitney , DeWitt Sage for First Edition
James R. Messenger , Paul Raimondi for Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
Douglas Gordon for The Shetland Experience
1979 Jacqueline Phillips Shedd , Ben Shedd The Flight of the Gossamer Condor Jerry Aronson for The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
K. K. Kapil for An Encounter with Faces
August Cinquegrana for Goodnight Miss Ann
J. Gary Mitchell for Squires of San Quentin
1980 Saul J. Turell Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist Risto Teofilovski for Dae
Donald A. Connolly , James R. Messenger for Koryo Celadon
Phillip Borsos for Nails
Dick Young for Remember Me

1981-1990

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1981 Roland Hallé , Peter W. Ladue Karl Hess: Toward Liberty John Watson , Pen Densham for Don't Mess with Bill
George Casey for The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
Dick Young for It's the Same World
Richard Hawkins , Jorge Preloran for Luther Metke a los 94
1982 Nigel Noble Close harmony Obie Benz for Americas in Transition
Dick Young for Journey for Survival
Linda Rogers-Ambury , Pam LeBlanc , Freddi Stevens for See What I Say
Roland Hallé , John Hoover for Urge to Build
1983 Edward Le Lorrain , Terre Nash If You Love This Planet Robert Richter for Gods of Metal
Charles Guggenheim , Werner Schumann for The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
Freida Lee Mock for To Live or Let Die
John G. Avildsen for Traveling Hopefully
1984 Cynthia Scott , Adam Symansky Flamenco at 5:15 Vivienne Verdon-Roe , Eric Thiermann for In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
Arthur Dong for Sewing Woman
Bob Eisenhardt for Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Dea Brokman , Ilene Landis for your zent free
1985 Marjorie Hunt , Paul Wagner The Stone Carvers Gary Bush , Paul TK Lin for The Children of Soong Ching Ling
Benhabenberg , Joan Sawyer for Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
Lawrence R. Hott , Roger M. Sherman for The Garden of Eden
Irina Kalinina for Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
1986 David Goodman Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements Robert H. Gardner for The Courage to Care
Michael Crowley , Jim Wolpaw for Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
Barbara Willis Sweete for Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
Alan Edelstein for The Wizard of the Strings
1987 Vivienne Verdon-Roe Women - for America, for the World Alison Nigh-Strelich for Debonair Dancers
Sonya Friedman for The Masters of Disaster
Thomas L. Neff , Madeline Bell for Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
Aaron D. Weisblatt for Sam
1988 Sue Marx , Pamela Conn Young at Heart Deborah Dickson for Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
Frantisek Daniel , Izak Ben-Meir for In the Wee Wee Hours ...
Megan Williams for Language Says It All
Lynn Mueller for Silver Into Gold
1989 Bill Guttentag , Malcolm Clarke You don't have to die Karen Goodman for The Children's Storefront
Lise Yasui , Ann Tegnell for The American Experience
Thomas B. Fleming , Daniel Marks for Gang Cops
Nancy Hale , Meg Partridge for Portrait of Imogen
1990 Charles Guggenheim The Johnstown Flood David Petersen for Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
Ray Errol Fox for Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

1991-2000

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1991 Steven Okazaki Days of Waiting Kit Thomas for Burning Down Tomorrow
Karen Goodman , Kirk Simon for Chimps: So Like Us
Derek Bromhall for Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
Freida Lee Mock , Terry Sanders for Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
1992 Debra Chasnoff Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment Éric Valli , Alain Majani d'Inguimbert for Chasseurs des ténèbres
Immy Humes for A Little Vicious
David McGowan for The Mark of the Maker
Bill Couturié , Bernard Edelman for Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1993 Thomas C. Goodwin , Gerardine Wurzburg Educating Peter Geoffrey O'Connor for At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai
Wendy L. Weinberg for Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review'
Richard Elson , Sally Bochner for The Colors of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein
Dorothy Fadiman for When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories
1994 Margaret Lazarus , Renner Wunderlich Defending Our Lives Steven Cantor , Peter Spirer for Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Elaine Holliman , Jason Schneider for Chicks in White Satin
1995 Charles Guggenheim A time for justice Vince DiPersio , Bill Guttentag for Blues Highway
Marcel Lozinski for 89 mm or Europy
Robert Richter for School of the Americas Assassins
Dee Mosbacher , Frances Reid for Straight from the Heart
1996 Kary Antholis One Survivor Remembers Nancy Dine , Richard Stilwell for Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls
Gred MacGillivray , Alec Lorimore for Wunderwelt der Meere
Terry Sanders , Freida Lee Mock for Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
Charles Guggenheim for The Shadow of Hate
1997 Jessica Yu Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien Jeffrey Marvin , Bayley Silleck for Cosmic Voyage
Perry Wolff for An Essay on Matisse
Susanne Simpson , Ben Burtt for Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Paul Seydor , Nick Redman for The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1998 Donna Dewey , Carol Pasternak A story of healing George Casey , Paul Novros for Alaska - Die raue Eiswelt
Kieth Merrill , Jonathan Stern for Amazon
Terri Randall for Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
Mel Damski , Andrea Blaugrund for Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
1999 Keiko Ibi The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years Charles Guggenheim for A Place in the Land
Shui-Bo Wang , Donald McWilliams for Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
2000 Susan Hannah Hadary , William A. Whiteford King Gimp Bert Van Bork for Eyewitness
Simeon Soffer , Jonathan Stack for The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

2001-2010

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
2001 Tracy Seretean Big mom Charles Braverman , Steve Kalafer for Curtain Call
Greg MacGillivray , Alec Lorimore for Delfine
Daniel Raim for The Man on Lincoln's Nose
Eric Simonson , Leelai Demoz for On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
2002 Sarah Kernochan , Lynn Appeals Thoth Lianne Klapper-McNally for Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Freida Lee Mock , Jessica Sanders for Sing!
2003 Bill Guttentag , Robert David Port Twin towers Alice Elliott for The Collector of Bedford Street
Robert Hudson , Robert Houston for Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Roger Weisberg , Murray Nossel for Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
2004 Maryann DeLeo Chernobyl Heart Sandy McLeod , Gini Reticker for Asylum
Katja Esson for Ferry Tales
2005 Robert Hudson , Robert Houston Mighty Times: The Children's March Gerardine Wurzburg for Autism is a World
Hanna Polak , Andrzej Celinski for The Children of Leningradsky
Erin Faith Young , Hubert Davis for Hardwood
Oren Jacoby , Steve Kalafer for Sister Rose's Passion
2006 Corinne Marrinan , Eric Simonson A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Kimberlee Acquaro , Stacy Sherman for God Sleeps in Rwanda
Dan Krauss for The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
Steven Okazaki for The Mushroom Club
2007 Ruby Yang , Thomas Lennon The Blood of Yingzhou District Leslie Iwerks , Mike Glad for Recycled Life
Karen Goodman , Kirk Simon for Rehearsing a Dream
Nathaniel Kahn , Susan Rose Behr for Two Hands - The Leon Fleisher Story
2008 Cynthia Wade , Vanessa Roth Freeheld Amanda Micheli , Isabel Vega for La Corona
Tim Sternberg , Francisco Bello for Salim Baba
James Longley for Sari's Mother
2009 Megan Mylan Smile Pinki Steven Okazaki for The Conscience of Nhem En
Irene Taylor Brodsky , Tom Grant for The Final Inch
Adam Pertofsky , Margaret Hyde for The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
2010 Roger Ross Williams , Elinor Burkett Music by Prudence Jon Alpert , Matthew O'Neill for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Daniel Junge , Henry Ansbacher for The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
Steven Bognar , Julia Reichert for The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Bartosz Konopka , Anna Wydra for wall bunny

2011-2020

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
2011 Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Strangers No More Jed Rothstein for Killing in the Name
Sara Nesson for Poster Girl
Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger for Sun Come Up
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon for The Warriors of Qiugang
2012 Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Saving Face Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson for God Is the Bigger Elvis
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin for The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
James Spione for Incident in New Baghdad
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen for The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
2013 Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine Inocente Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider for Kings Point,
Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan for Mondays at Racine
Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern for Open Heart
Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill for Redemption
2014 Malcolm Clarke
Nicholas Reed
The Lady in Number 6 Jeffrey Karoff for CaveDigger
Jason Cohen for Facing Fear
Sara Ishaq for Karama Has No Walls
Edgar Barens for Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
2015 Ellen Goosenberg Kent
Dana Perry
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 Aneta Kopacz for Joanna
Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki for Our Curse
Gabriel Serra Argüello for The Reaper
J. Christian Jensen for White Earth
2016 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness David Darg and Bryn Mooser for Body Team 12,
Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck for Chau, Beyond the Lines
Adam Benzine for Claude Lanzmann: Specters of the Shoah
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman for Last Day of Freedom
2017 Orlando by hermit
Joanna Natasegara
The white helmets Daphne Matziaraki for 4.1 Miles
Dan Krauss for Extremis
Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen for Joe's violin
Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis for Das Schicksal der Kinder von Aleppo
2018 Frank boots Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright for Edith + Eddie
Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon for Heroin (e)
Thomas Lennon for Knife Skills
Kate Davis and David Heilbroner for Traffic Stop
2019 Rayka Zehtabchi
Melissa Berton
Stigma menstrual bleeding Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn for Black Sheep
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman for Endspiel
Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser for Lifeboat
Marshall Curry for A Night at The Garden
2020 Carol Dysinger
Elena Andreicheva
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) Yi Seung-jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam for In the Absence
John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson for Vom Leben überholt
Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan for St. Louis Superman
Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt for Walk Run Cha-Cha

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