BAFTA Award for Best Short Film

This page lists the winners and nominees for the **BAFTA Award for Best Short Film** for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for movies, television, children's movies and television, and interactive media. Since 1960, selected movies have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Short Film at an annual ceremony.

In the following lists, the titles and names in **bold** with a dark grey background are the winners. Those not in bold are the nominees. The years are when the movies were released, not the year of the ceremony.

## 2000s

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|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**2006**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Do Not Erase***|**Asitha Ameresekere**|**Asitha Ameresekere**|**Asitha Ameresekere**||||||
|_Care_|Corinna Faith|Rachel Bailey, Tracy Bass|Corinna Faith|||||||
|_Cubs_|Tom Harper|Lisa Williams|Tom Harper|||||||
|_Hikikomori_|Paul Wright|Karley Duffy|Paul Wright|||||||
|_Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored_|Jim McRoberts|David Smith|Jim McRoberts|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**2005**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Antonio's Breakfast***|**Daniel Mulloy**|**Howard Stogdon**, **Amber Templemore-Finlayson**|**Daniel Mulloy**||||||
|_Call Register_|Ed Roe|Kit Hawkins, Adam Tudhope|Ed Roe|||||||
|_Heavy Metal Drummer_|Toby MacDonald, Luke Morris|Toby MacDonald, Luke Morris, Amanda Boyle|Toby MacDonald, Luke Morris|||||||
|_Heydar, An Afghan in Tehran_|Babak Jalali|Homayoun Assadian|Babak Jalali|||||||
|_Lucky_|Avie Luthra|Bex Hopkins|Avie Luthra|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**2004**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***The Banker***|**Hattie Dalton**|**Kelly Broad**|**Hattie Dalton**||||||
|_Can't Stop Breathing_|Amy Neil|Ravinder Basra|Amy Neil|||||||
|_Elephant Boy_|Rene Mohandas|Durdana Shaikh|Rene Mohandas|||||||
|_Knitting a Love Song_|Debbie Ballin, Annie Watson|Debbie Ballin, Annie Watson|Debbie Ballin|||||||
|_Six Shooter_|Martin McDonagh|Mia Bays, Kenton Allen|Martin McDonagh|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**2003**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Brown Paper Bag***|**Michael Baig Clifford**|**Natasha Carlish**, **Mark Leveson**|**Geoff Thompson**||||||
|_Bye Child_|Bernard Maclaverty|Andrew Bonner|Bernard Maclaverty|||||||
|_Nits_|Harry Wootliff|George Isaac|Harry Wootliff|||||||
|_Sea Monsters_|Mark Walker|Matt Delargy|Raphael Smith|||||||
|_Talking with Angels_|Yousaf Ali Khan|Michael Knowles, Janey de Nordwall|Yousaf Ali Khan|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**2002**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117***|**Chris Morris**|**Mark Herbert**|**Chris Morris**||||||
|_Bouncer_|Michael Baig Clifford|Natasha Carlish, Sophie Morgan|Geoff Thompson|||||||
|_Candy Bar Kid_|Shah Khan|Benjamin Johns|Shah Khan|||||||
|_Good Night_|Sun-Young Chun|Yoav Factor|Sun-Young Chun|||||||
|_The Most Beautiful Man in the World_|Alicia Duffy|Hugh Welchman|Alicia Duffy|||||||
|_Rank_|David Yates|Andrew O'Connell|Robbie McCallum|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**2001**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***About a Girl***|**Brian Percival**|**Janey de Nordwall**|**Julie Rutterford**||||||
|_Inferno_|Paul Kousoulides|Teun Hilte|Sharat Sardana|||||||
|_The Red Peppers_|Dominic Santana|Dominic Santana, Lee Santana|Lee Santana|||||||
|_Skin Deep_|Yousaf Ali Khan|Andy Porter|Yousaf Ali Khan|||||||
|_Tattoo_|Jules Williamson|Arabella Page Croft, Sara Putt|Jemma Field|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**2000**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Shadowscan***|**Tinge Krishnan**|**Gary Holding**, **Justine Leahy**|**Tinge Krishnan**||||||
|_Going Down_|Tom Shankland|Soledad Gatti-Pascual|Jane Harris|||||||
|_The Last Post_|Dominic Santana|Lee Santana|Lee Santana|||||||
|_Sweet_|James Pilkington|Rob Mercer|James Pilkington|||||||

## 1990s

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|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1999**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Who's My Favourite Girl***|**Adrian McDowall**|**Joern Utkilen**, **Kara Johnston**|**Adrian McDowall**||||||
|_Bait_|Tom Shankland|Soledad Gatti-Pascual|Jane Harris|||||||
|_Perdie_|Faye Gilbert|Rachel Shadick|Faye Gilbert|||||||
|_The Tale of the Rat the Wrote_|Billy O'Brien|Ruth Kenley-Letts, Lisa-Marie Russo|Murilo Pasta|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1998**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Home***|**Morag McKinnon**|**Hannah Lewis**|**Colin McLaren**||||||
|_Anthrakitis_|Sara Sugarman|Natasha Dack|Sara Sugarman|||||||
|_Eight_|Stephen Daldry|Jon Finn|Tim Clague|||||||
|_In Memory of Dorothy Bennett_|Martin Radich|Catherine McArthur|Martin Radich|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1996**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Des Majorettes dans l'Espace***|**David Fourier**|**Carole Scotta**|**David Fourier**||||||
|_Butterfly Man_|Barry Ackroyd|Robin Macpherson|Barry Ackroyd|||||||
|_Dual Balls_|Dan Zeff|Laurence Bowen|Dan Zeff|||||||
|_Machinations_|Ralph Seiler|Alice Beckmann|Ralph Seiler|||||||
|_Tout doit disparaître_|Jean-Marc Moutout|François Barat|Jean-Marc Moutout|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1995**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***It's Not Unusual***|**Kfir O**|**Asmaa Pirzada**|**Kfir O**||||||
|_Cabbage_|David Stewart|Noelle Pickford|David Stewart|||||||
|_Hello, Hello, Hello_|David Thewlis|Helen Booth, James Roberts|David Thewlis|||||||
|_The Last Post_|Ed Blum|Neris Thomas|Ed Blum|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1994**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Zinky Boys Go Underground***|**Paul Tickell**|**Tatianna Kennedy**|||||||
|_Lost Mojave_|Jonathan Cordish|Vladimir Perlovich||||||||
|_Marooned_|Jonas Grimås|Andrea Calderwood||||||||
|_That Sunday_|Dan Zeff|Damiano Vukotic|Dan Zeff|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1993**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life***|**Peter Capaldi**|**Ruth Kenley-Letts**|**Peter Capaldi**||||||
|_A Small Deposit_|Eleanor Yule|Paul Holmes|Barry Ackroyd|||||||
|_One Night Stand_|Bill Britten|Georgia Masters||||||||
|_Syrup_|Paul Unwin|Anita Overland||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1992**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Omnibus***|**Sam Karmann**|**Anne Bennett**|**Sam Karmann**||||||
|_Deux Ramoneurs chez une Cantatrice_|Michel Cauléa|||||||||
|_Heartsongs_|Sue Clayton|Caroline Hewitt|Sue Clayton|||||||
|_Sense of History_|Mike Leigh|Simon Channing Williams|Jim Broadbent|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1991**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***The Harmfulness of Tobacco***|**Nick Hamm**|**Bary Palin**|||||||
|_Breath of Life_|Navin Thapar|||||||||
|_Man Descending_|Neil Grieve|Ray Lorenz||||||||
|_Trauma_|Gerhard Johannes Rekel|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1990**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Say Goodbye***|**John Roberts**|**Michele Carmada**|||||||
|_An der Grenze_|Max Linder|Michael Drexler||||||||
|_Chicken_|Jo Shoop|Julian Nott||||||||
|_Dear Rosie_|Peter Cattaneo|Barnaby Thompson||||||||

## 1980s

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|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1989**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***The Candy Show***|**Peter Hewitt**|**Damian Jones**|**Peter Hewitt, David Freeman **||||||
|_Carmelo Campo_|Ariel Piluso|Carlos Toscano, Gabriel Enis|Ariel Piluso|||||||
|_Tight Trousers_|Metin Hüseyin|Elaine Donnelly||||||||
|_Uhloz_|Guy Jacques|Isabelle Groulleart|Guy Jacques|||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1988**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Defence Counsel Sedov***|**Evgeny Tsymbal**||||||||
|_Cane Toads: An Unnatural History_|Mark Lewis|||||||||
|_The Unkindest Cut_|Jim Shields|||||||||
|_Water's Edge_|Suri Krishnamma|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1987**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Artisten***|**Jonas Grimås**||||||||
|_D'Apres Maria_|Jean-Claude Robert|||||||||
|_Short and Curlies_|Mike Leigh|||||||||
|_Treacle_|Peter Chelsom|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1986**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***La Boule***|**Simon Shore**||||||||
|_King's Christmas_|Graham Dixon|||||||||
|_Mohammed's Daughter_|Suri Krishnamma|||||||||
|_Night Movie_|Gur Heller|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1985**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Careless Talk***|**Noella Smith**||||||||
|_One for My Baby_|Chris Fallon|||||||||
|_The Woman who Married Clark Gable_|Thaddeus O'Sullivan|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1984**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***The Dress***|**Eva Sereny**||||||||
|_Killing Time_|Chris O'Reilly|||||||||
|_Samson and Delilah_|Mark Peploe|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1983**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Goodie Two Shoes***|**Ian Emes**||||||||
|_The Crimson Permanent Assurance_|Terry Gilliam|||||||||
|_John Love_|John Davis|||||||||
|_Keep Off the Grass_|Paul Weiland|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1982**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***The Privilege***|**Ian Knox**||||||||
|_Rating Notman_|Carlo Gebler|||||||||
|_The Rocking Horse Winner_|Robert Bierman|||||||||
|_A Shocking Accident_|James Scott|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1981**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Recluse***|**Bob Bentley**||||||||
|_Couples and Robbers_|Clare Peploe|||||||||
|_Towers of Babel_|Jonathan Lewis|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1980**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Sredni Vashtar***|**Andrew Birkin**||||||||
|_Box On_|Lindsey Clennell|||||||||
|_The Dollar Bottom_|Roger Christian|||||||||
|_Possessions_|Andrew Bogle|||||||||

## 1970s

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|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1979**|||||||||
|**Best Short Film**|***Butch Minds the Baby***|**Peter Webb**||||||||
|_Dilemma_|Clive Mitchell|||||||||
|_Dream Doll_|Bob Godfrey|||||||||
|_Mr Pascal_|Alison De Vere|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1978**|||||||||
|**Best Short Fictional Film**|**No Award**|||||||||
|colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"|**1977**|||||||||
|**Best Short Fictional Film**|***Bead Game***|**Ishu Patel**||||||||
|_The Chinese Word for House_|Kate Canning|||||||||
|_The Sand Castle_|Co Hoedeman|||||||||