Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films that have received an Oscar and nomination for best documentary short subject.
- 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 – Princeton: A Search for Answers – 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, Producer
- 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 – Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist – Saul J. Turell, Producer
- 1980 – Karl Hess: Toward Liberty – 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 – Flamenco at 5:15 – Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers
- 1984 – The Stone Carvers – Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, Producers
- 1985 – Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements – 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 – Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment – 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 – Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien – 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
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks – 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 Mighty Times: The Children's March 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 Roses Passion Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer
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