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2020 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
Carol Dysinger
2019 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Period. End of Sentence.
Rayka Zehtabchi
2018 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Frank Stiefel
2017 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The White Helmets
Orlando von Einsiedel
2016 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
2015 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Ellen Goosenberg Kent
2014 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Malcolm Clarke
2013 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Inocente
Sean Fine
2012 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Saving Face
Daniel Junge
2011 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Strangers No More
Karen Goodman
2010 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Music by Prudence
Roger Ross Williams
2009 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Smile Pinki
Megan Mylan
2008 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Freeheld
Cynthia Wade
2007 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Ruby Yang
2006 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Corinne Marrinan
2005 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Mighty Times: The Children’s March
Robert Hudson
2004 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Chernobyl Heart
Maryann DeLeo
2003 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Twin Towers
Bill Guttentag
2002 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Thoth
Sarah Kernochan
2001 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Big Mama
Tracy Seretean
2000 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
King Gimp
Susan Hannah Hadary
1999 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Personals
Keiko Ibi
1998 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
A Story of Healing
Donna Dewey
1997 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien
Jessica Yu
1996 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
One Survivor Remembers
Kary Antholis
1995 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
A Time for Justice
Charles Guggenheim
1994 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Defending Our Lives
Margaret Lazarus
1993 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Educating Peter
Thomas C. Goodwin
1992 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
Debra Chasnoff
1991 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Days of Waiting
Steven Okazaki
1990 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Johnstown Flood
Charles Guggenheim
1989 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
You Don’t Have to Die
Bill Guttentag
1988 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Young at Heart
Sue Marx
1987 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Women – for America, for the World
Vivienne Verdon-Roe
1986 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
David Goodman
1985 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Stone Carvers
Marjorie Hunt
1984 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Flamenco at 5:15
Cynthia Scott
1983 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
If You Love This Planet
Edward Le Lorrain
1982 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Close Harmony
Nigel Noble
1981 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
Roland Hallé
1980 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Saul J. Turell
1979 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
Jacqueline Phillips Shedd
1978 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Gravity Is My Enemy
John C. Joseph
1977 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Number Our Days
Lynne Littman
1976 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The End of the Game
Claire Wilbur
1975 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Don’t
Robin Lehman
1974 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Princeton: A Search for Answers
Julian Krainin
1973 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
This Tiny World
Charles Huguenot van der Linden
1972 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Sentinels of Silence
Manuel Arango
1971 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Interviews with My Lai Veterans
Joseph Strick
1970 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Czechoslovakia 1918-1968
Denis Sanders
1969 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Why Man Creates
Saul Bass
1968 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Redwoods
Mark Jonathan Harris
1967 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
A Year Toward Tomorrow
Edmond Levy
1966 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
To Be Alive!
Francis Thompson
1965 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Nine from Little Rock
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1964 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Chagall
Simon Schiffrin
1963 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
Jack Howells
1962 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Project Hope
Frank P. Bibas
1961 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Giuseppina
James Hill
1960 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Glas
Bert Haanstra
1959 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Ama Girls
Ben Sharpsteen
1957 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The True Story of the Civil War
Louis Clyde Stoumen
1956 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Men Against the Arctic
Walt Disney
1955 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Thursday’s Children
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1954 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
The Alaskan Eskimo
Walt Disney
1953 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Neighbours
Norman McLaren
1952 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Benjy
Fred Zinnemann
1951 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Why Korea?
Edmund Reek
1950 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
A Chance to Live
Richard De Rochemont
1950 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
So Much for So Little
Edward Selzer
1949 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Toward Independence
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1948 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
First Steps
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1947 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Seeds of Destiny
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1946 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
Hitler Lives
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1945 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
With the Marines at Tarawa
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1944 Academy Awards – Documentary (Short Subject)
