Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
Official website http://www.oscars.org

This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.

List of winners and nominees

Contents

1940s

1950s

Note: A press release issued by AMPAS in 2005 states that "Documentary Short Subject winners Benjy (1951) and Neighbours (1952) are among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories. Benjy, directed by Fred Zinnemann and narrated by Henry Fonda, is the fictional tale of a crippled boy. The film was used as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital. ... Norman McLaren's Neighbours, which today would compete in the Animated Short category, used "pixilation" – animation using living people - to create an allegory of war." [2]

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "1942 (15th Academy Awards)". Academy Awards Database. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1263515494445. Retrieved 15 January 2010. 
  2. ^ ""Oscar's Docs" Resumes with Nature Documentaries". Oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2005/05.10.31.html. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
1941–1960
1961–1980
1981–2000
2001–present
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