Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
award for film
This is a list of movies by year that they received an Oscar. Also listed are the other nominations for best documentary short subject.
| Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1941 |
| Most recent winner | Alice Doyard Anthony Giacchino Colette (2020) |
| Website | oscars |
List of winners and nominees
change1940s
change- 1941 - Churchill's Island - National Film Board of Canada
- 1942 - At the 15th Academy Awards, 25 movies were nominated and four special awards presented in the Documentary category. This was in recognition of the Allied war in effort in World War II:[1]
- The Battle of Midway -- United States Navy
- Kokoda Front Line! -- Australian News & Information Bureau
- Moscow Strikes Back -- Artkino
- Prelude to War -- United States Army Special Services
- Africa, Prelude to Victory -- The March of Time
- Combat Report -- United States Army Signal Corps
- Conquer by the Clock -- Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
- The Grain That Built a Hemisphere -- Walt Disney, Producer -- Walt Disney Productions
- Henry Browne, Farmer -- United States Department of Agriculture
- High over the Borders -- National Film Board of Canada
- High Stakes in the East -- The Netherlands Information Bureau
- Inside Fighting China -- National Film Board of Canada
- It's Everybody's War -- United States Office of War Information
- Listen to Britain -- British Ministry of Information
- Little Belgium -- Belgian Ministry of Information
- Little Isles of Freedom -- Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew, Producers
- Mr. Blabbermouth!—United States Office of War Information
- Mr. Gardenia Jones—United States Office of War Information
- The New Spirit -- Walt Disney, Producer -- Walt Disney Productions
- The Price of Victory -- William H. Pine, Producer
- A Ship Is Born -- United States Merchant Marine
- Twenty-One Miles—British Ministry of Information
- We Refuse to Die -- William C. Thomas, Producer
- White Eagle} -- Concanen Films
- Winning Your Wings -- United States Army Air Force
- 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
- 1848
- The Rising Tide
1950s
change- 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 - National Film Board of Canada
- 1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney, Producer - Walt Disney Productions
- 1954 - Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
- 1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney, Producer - Walt Disney Productions
- 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
Note: A press release by AMPAS in 2005 says 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."
1960s
change- 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
1970s
change- 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 and Barbara Myerhoff, Producers
- 1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John C. 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
1980s
change- 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 Terre Nash, Producers - National Film Board of Canada
- 1983 - Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers - National Film Board of Canada
- 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
1990s
change- 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 (posthumous win) and Gerardine Wurzburg
- When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman
- At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai - Geoffrey O'Connor
- Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' - Wendy L. Weinberg
- The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein - Richard Elson & Sally Bochner
- 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
- 1997 - A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
- 1999 - King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
2000s
change- 2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
- 2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David 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
2010s
change- 2010 - Strangers No More – Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
- Killing in the Name – Jed Rothstein
- Poster Girl – Sara Nesson
- Sun Come Up – Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
- The Warriors of Qiugang – Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
- 2011 - Saving Face – Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
References
change- ↑ "1942 (15th Academy Awards)". Academy Awards Database. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 January 2010.