Academy Award untuk Film Pendek Dokumenter Terbaik

Film Dokumenter Pendek Terbaik Oscar (The Academy Award for Best Documentary [Short Subject]) adalah penghargaan Oscar yang diberikan setiap tahun untuk Film Dokumenter Pendek Terbaik.

Pemenang dan nominasi

1940-an 
 1941 - Churchill's Island
 Adventure in the Bronx
 Bomber
 Christmas Under Fire
 A Letter from Home
 Life of a Thoroughbred
 Norway in Revolt
 Soldiers of the Sky
 War Clouds in the Pacific
 1942 - tidak diberikan
 1943 - December 7th
 Children of Mars
 Plan for Destruction
 Swedes in America
 To the People of the United States
 Tomorrow We Fly
 Youth in Crisis
 1944 - With the Marines at Tarawa
 Hymn of the Nations
 New Americans
 1945 - Hitler Lives - Gordon Hollingshead
 Library of Congress
 To the Shores of Iwo Jima
 1946 - Seeds of Destiny
 Atomic Power
 Life at the Zoo
 Paramount News Issue#37
 Traffic with the Devil
 1947 - First Steps
 Passport to Nowhere
 School in the Mailbox
 1948 - Toward Independence - United States Army
 Heart to Heart
 Operation Vittles
 1949 - (seri):
 A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont
 So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer
 1848
 The Rising Tide

1950-an 

 1950 - Why Korea? - Edmund Reek
 The Fight: Science Against Cancer
 The Stairs
 1951 - Benjy - Fred Zinnemann
 One Who Came Back
 The Seeing Eye
 1952 - Neighbours - Norman McLaren
 Devil Take Us
 Epeira Diadema
 Man Alive!
 1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney
 The Living City
 Operation Blue Jay
 They Planted a Stone
 The Word
 1954 - Thursday's Children
 Jet Carrier
 Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
 1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney
 The Battle of Gettysburg
 The Face of Lincoln
 1956 - The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen
 Man in Space
 A City Decides
 The Dark Wave
 The House Without a Name
 1957 - tidak diberikan
 1958 - Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen
 Employees Only
 Journey Into Spring
 The Living Stone
 Oeuverture
 1959 - Glass - Bert Haanstra
 Donald in Mathmagic Land
 From Generation to Generation

1960-an 

 1960 - Giuseppina - James Hill
 Beyond Silence
 En by ved navn København
 George Grosz' Interregnum
 Universe
 1961 - Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas
 Breaking the Language Barrier
 Cradle of Genius
 Kahl
 L'uomo in grigio
 1962 - Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells
 The John Glenn Story
 The Road to the Wall
 1963 - Chagall - Simon Schiffrin
 The Five Cities of June
 The Spirit of America
 Thirty Million Letters
 To Live Again
 1964 - Nine from Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim
 140 Days Under the World
 Breaking the Habit
 Children Without
 Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
 1965 - To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson
 Mural on Our Street
 Nyitany
 Point of View
 Yeats Country
 1966 - A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy
 Adolescence
 Cowboy
 The Odds Against
 Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából
 1967 - The Redwoods - Mark Harris dan Trevor Greenwood
 Monument to the Dream
 A Place to Stand
 See You at the Pillar
 While I Run This Race
 1968 - Why Man Creates - Saul Bass
 The House That Ananda Built
 The Revolving Door
 A Space to Grow
 A Way Out of the Wilderness
 1969 - Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders dan Robert M. Fresco
 An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
 Jenny Is a Good Thing
 Leo Beuerman
 The Magic Machines

1970-an 

 1970 - Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick
 The Gifts
 A Long Way from Nowhere
 Oisin
 Time Is Running Out
 1971 - Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango dan Robert Amram
 Adventures in Perception
 Art Is...
 The Numbers Start with the River
 Somebody Waiting
 1972 - This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden dan Martina Huguenot van der Linden
 Hundertwassers Regentag
 K-Z
 Selling Out
 The Tide of Traffic
 1973 - Princeton: A Search for Answers - Julian Krainin dan DeWitt L. Sage, Jr.
 Background
 Christo's Valley Curtain
 Four Stones for Kanemitsu
 Paisti ag obair
 1974 - Don't - Robin Lehman
 City Out of Wilderness
 Exploratorium
 John Muir's High Sierra
 Naked Yoga
 1975 - The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur dan Robin Lehman
 Arthur and Lillie
 Millions of Years Ahead of Man
 Probes in Space
 Whistling Smith
 1976 - Number Our Days - Lynne Littman dan Barbara Myerhoff
 American Shoeshine
 Blackwood
 The End of the Road
 Universe
 1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph dan Jan Stussy
 Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
 First Edition
 Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
 The Shetland Experience
 1978 - The Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd dan Ben Shedd
 The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
 An Encounter with Faces
 Goodnight Miss Ann
 Squires of San Quentin
 1979 - Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist - Saul J. Turell
 Dae
 Koryo Celadon
 Nails
 Remember Me

1980-an 

 1980 - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hallé dan Peter W. Ladue
 Don't Mess with Bill
 The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
 It's the Same World
 Luther Metke at 94
 1981 - Close Harmony - Nigel Noble
 Americas in Transition
 Journey for Survival
 See What I Say
 Urge to Build
 1982 - If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain dan Terri Nash
 Gods of Metal
 The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
 To Live or Let Die
 Traveling Hopefully
 1983 - Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott dan Adam Symansky
 Ihr zent frei
 In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
 Sewing Woman
 Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
 1984 - The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt dan Paul Wagner
 The Children of Soong Ching Ling
 Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
 The Garden of Eden
 Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
 1985 - Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman
 The Courage to Care
 Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
 Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
 The Wizard of the Strings
 1986 - Women--for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe
 Sam
 Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
 The Master of Disaster
 Debonair Dancers
 1987 - Young at Heart - Sue Marx dan Pamela Conn
 Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
 In the Wee Wee Hours...
 Language Says It All
 Silver Into Gold
 1988 - You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag dan Malcolm Clarke
 Gang Cops
 Family Gathering
 The Children's Storefront
 Portrait of Imogen
 1989 - The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim
 Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
 Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

1990-an 

 1990 - Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki
 Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
 Chimps: So Like Us
 Burning Down Tomorrow
 Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
 1991 - Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff
 A Little Vicious
 The Mark of the Maker
 Birdnesters of Thailand
 Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
 1992 - Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin dan 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 dan Sally Bochner
 1993 - Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
 Chicks in White Satin
 Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
 1994 - A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
 89 mm od Europy
 Blues Highway
 School of the Americas Assassins
 Straight from the Heart
 1995 - One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
 Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls
 The Shadow of Hate
 The Living Sea
 Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
 1996 - Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu
 Cosmic Voyage
 Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
 The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
 An Essay on Matisse
 1997 - A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
 Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
 Amazon
 Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
 Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
 1998 - The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years - Keiko Ibi
 A Place in the Land
 Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square - National Film Board of Canada
 1999 - King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
 Eyewitness
 The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

2000-an 

 2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
 Curtain Call
 Dolphins
 On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
 The Man on Lincoln's Nose
 2001 - Thoth - Sarah Kernochan dan Lynn Appelle
 Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
 Sing!
 2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port
 The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott
 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Tell the Truth Pictures - Robert Hudson - Robert Houston
 Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel
 2003 - Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
 Asylum - Sandy McLeod dan Gini Reticker
 Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
 2004 - Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Hudson dan Bobby Houston
 Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
 The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak dan Andrzej Celinski
 Hardwood – Hubert Davis dan Erin Faith Young
 Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby dan Steve Kalafer
 2005 - A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
 The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
 God Sleeps in Rwanda
 The Mushroom Club
 2006 - The Blood of Yingzhou District
 Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
 Recycled Life
 Rehearsing a Dream
 2007 - Freeheld
 La Corona
 Salim Baba
 Sari's Mother
 2008 - Smile Pinki
 The Conscience of Nhem En
 The Final Inch
 The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

 2010-an 2010 — Strangers No More - Karen Goodman dan Kirk Simon Killing in the Name - Jed Rothstein
 Poster Girl - Sara Nesson dan Mitchell Block
 Sun Come Up - Jennifer Redfearn dan Tim Metzger
 The Warriors of Qiugang - Ruby Yang dan Thomas Lennon2011 — Saving Face - Daniel Junge dan Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement - Robin Fryday dan Gail Dolgin
 God Is the Bigger Elvis - Rebecca Cammisa dan Julie Anderson
 Incident in New Baghdad - James Spione
 The Tsunami dan the Cherry Blossom - Lucy Walker dan Kira Carstensen2012 — Inocente - Sean Fine dan Andrea Nix Fine Kings Point - Sari Gilman dan Jedd Wider
 Mondays at Racine - Cynthia Wade dan Robin Honan
 Open Heart - Kief Davidson dan Cori Shepherd Stern
 Redemption - Jon Alpert dan Matthew O'Neill2013 — The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke dan Nicholas Reed CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff
 Facing Fear - Jason Cohen
 Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq
 Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens2014 — Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 - Ellen Goosenberg Kent dan Dana Perry Joanna - Aneta Kopacz
 Our Curse - Tomasz Śliwiński dan Maciej Ślesicki
 The Reaper (La Parka) - Gabriel Serra Arguello
 White Earth - J. Christian Jensen2015 — A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Body Team 12 - David Darg dan Bryn Mooser
 Chau, Beyond the Lines - Courtney Marsh dan Jerry Franck
 Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah - Adam Benzine
 Last Day of Freedom - Dee Hibbert-Jones dan Nomi Talisman
 2016 — The White Helmets - Orlando von Einsiedel dan Joanna Natasegara Extremis - Dan Krauss
 4.1 Miles - Daphne Matziaraki
 Joe's Violin - Kahane Cooperman dan Raphaela Neihausen
 Watani: My Homeland - Marcel Mettelsiefen dan Stephen Ellis
 2017 — Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 - Frank Stiefel Edith+Eddie - Laura Checkoway dan Thomas Lee Wright
 Heroin(e) - Elaine McMillion Sheldon dan Kerrin Sheldon
 Knife Skills - Thomas Lennon
 Traffic Stop - Kate Davis dan David Heilbroner
 2018 — Period. End of Sentence. - Rayka Zehtabchi dan Melissa Berton Black Sheep - Ed Perkins dan Jonathan Chinn
 End Game - Rob Epstein dan Jeffrey Friedman
 Lifeboat - Skye Fitzgerald dan Bryn Mooser
 A Night at the Garden - Marshall Curry
 2019 — Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) - Carol Dysinger dan Elena Andreicheva In the Absence - Yi Seung-Jun dan Gary Byung-Seok Kam
 Life Overtakes Me - John Haptas dan Kristine Samuelson
 St. Louis Superman - Smriti Mundhra dan Sami Khan
 Walk Run Cha-Cha - Laura Nix dan Colette Sandstedt

 2020-an 2020 — Colette - Anthony Giacchino dan Alice Doyard A Concerto Is a Conversation - Ben Proudfoot dan Kris Bowers
 Do Not Split - Anders Hammer dan Charlotte Cook
 Hunger Ward - Skye Fitzgerald dan Michael Scheuerman
 A Love Song for Latasha - Sophia Nahli Allison dan Janice Duncan2021 — The Queen of Basketball - Ben Proudfoot Audible - Matthew Ogens dan Geoff McLean
 Lead Me Home - Pedro Kos dan Jon Shenk
 Three Songs for Benazir - Elizabeth Mirzaei dan Gulistan Mirzaei
 When We Were Bullies - Jay Rosenblatt2022 — The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves dan Guneet Monga' Haulout - Evgenia Arbugaeva dan Maxim Arbugaev
 How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt
 The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue dan Beth Levison
 Stranger at the Gate'' - Joshua Seftel dan Conall Jones

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Academy Awards