En İyi Kısa Belgesel Film Akademi Ödülü

Bu liste kısa belgesel film kategorisinde Oskar ödülü ve adaylığı kazanan filmleri yıllarına göre sıralamaktadır.

1940'lar 
 1941 - Churchill's Island - National Film Board of Canada
 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 - ödül verilmedi
 1943 - December 7th - United States Navy
 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 - United States Marine Corps
 Hymn of the Nations
 New Americans
 1945 - Hitler Lives - Gordon Hollingshead, Yapımcı
 Library of Congress
 To the Shores of Iwo Jima
 1946 - Seeds of Destiny - United States Department of War
 Atomic Power
 Life at the Zoo
 Paramount News Issue#37
 Traffic with the Devil
 1947 - First Steps - United Nations Division of Films ve Visual Information
 Passport to Nowhere
 School in the Mailbox
 1948 - Toward Independence - United States Army
 Heart to Heart
 Operation Vittles
 1949 - (tie):
 A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont, Yapımcı
 So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer, Yapımcı
 1848
 The Rising Tide

1950'ler 
 1950 - Why Korea? - Edmund Reek, Yapımcı 
 The Fight: Science Against Cancer
 The Stairs
 1951 - Benjy - Fred Zinnemann tarafından Paramount Pictures Corporation ortaklığı ile Los Angeles Ortopedi Hastanesi için yapıldı.
 One Who Came Back
 The Seeing Eye
 1952 - Neighbours - Norman McLaren, Yapımcı - National Film Board of Canada 
 Devil Take Us
 Epeira Diadema
 Man Alive!
 1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney, Yapımcı
 The Living City
 Operation Blue Jay
 They Planted a Stone
 The Word
 1954 - Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures ve Morse Films 
 Jet Carrier
 Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
 1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney, Yapımcı 
 The Battle of Gettysburg
 The Face of Lincoln
 1956 - The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Yapımcı 
 Man in Space
 A City Decides
 The Dark Wave
 The House Without a Name
 1957 - none given
 1958 - Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen, Yapımcı 
 Employees Only
 Journey Into Spring
 The Living Stone
 Oeuverture
 1959 - Glass - Bert Haanstra, Yapımcı
 Donald in Mathmagic Land
 From Generation to Generation

Not: Sinema Sanatları ve Bilimleri Akademisi tarafından 2005'te yayımlanan bir basıb bülteninde En İyi Kısa Belgesel Film kategorisinde ödül kazanan Benjy (1951) ve Neighbours (1952) filmlerinin açıkça ilgisiz kategorilerde Akademi ödülü kazandığını ifade etmektedir. Fred Zinnemann tarafından yönetilip Henry Fonda tarafından öykülenmiş olan Benjy engelli bir çocuğun kurgusal hikâyesini anlatmaktadır. Film Los Angeles Orthopedi Hastanesi'ne  fon sağlamak için kullanılmıştır. ... Günümüzde Kısa Animasyon kategorisinde değerlendirilebilecek Norman McLaren'in Neighbours filminde bir savaş alegorisi oluşturmak için gerçek insanlar kullanılarak yapılan bir animasyon tekniği olan "Pixilation" kullanılmıştır."

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

1970'ler 
 1970 - Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick, Yapımcı 
 The Gifts
 A Long Way from Nowhere
 Oisin
 Time Is Running Out
 1971 - Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango ve Robert Amram, Yapımcılar 
 Adventures in Perception
 Art Is...
 The Numbers Start with the River
 Somebody Waiting
 1972 - This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden ve Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Yapımcılar 
 Hundertwassers Regentag
 K-Z
 Selling Out
 The Tide of Traffic
 1973 - Princeton: A Search for Answers - Julian Krainin ve DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Yapımcılar 
 Background
 Christo's Valley Curtain
 Four Stones for Kanemitsu
 Paisti ag obair
 1974 - Don't - Robin Lehman, Yapımcı 
 City Out of Wilderness
 Exploratorium
 John Muir's High Sierra
 Naked Yoga
 1975 - The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur ve Robin Lehman, Yapımcılar 
 Arthur and Lillie
 Millions of Years Ahead of Man
 Probes in Space
 Whistling Smith
 1976 - Number Our Days - Lynne Littman ve Barbara Myerhoff, Yapımcılar 
 American Shoeshine
 Blackwood
 The End of the Road
 Universe
 1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph ve Jan Stussy, Yapımcılar 
 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 ve Ben Shedd, Yapımcılar 
 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, Yapımcı
 Dae
 Koryo Celadon
 Nails
 Remember Me

1980'ler 
 1980 - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hallé ve Peter W. Ladue, Yapımcı 
 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, Yapımcı 
 Americas in Transition
 Journey for Survival
 See What I Say
 Urge to Build
 1982 - If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain ve Terri Nash, Yapımcılar - National Film Board of Canada 
 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 ve Adam Symansky, Yapımcılar - National Film Board of Canada 
 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 ve Paul Wagner, Yapımcılar 
 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, Yapımcı 
 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, Yapımcı 
 Sam
 Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
 The Master of Disaster
 Debonair Dancers
 1987 - Young at Heart - Sue Marx ve Pamela Conn, Yapımcılar 
 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 ve Malcolm Clarke, Yapımcılar 
 Gang Cops
 Family Gathering
 The Children's Storefront
 Portrait of Imogen
 1989 - The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim, Yapımcı 
 Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
 Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

1990'lar 
 1990 - Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki, Yapımcı 
 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, Yapımcı 
 A Little Vicious
 The Mark of the Maker
 Birdnesters of Thailand
 Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
 1992 - Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin ve 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
 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 yönetmen, Yapımcı, yazar ve editör 
 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'ler 
 2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
 Curtain Call
 Dolphins
 On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
 The Man on Lincoln's Nose
 2001 - Thoth - Sarah Kernochan ve Lynn Appelle
 Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
 Sing!
 2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port yönetmenler
 The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott Yapımcı ve yönetmen
 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Tell the Truth Pictures - Robert Hudson Yapımcı - Robert Houston yönetmen
 Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel yönetmenler
 2003 - Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
 Asylum - Sandy McLeod ve Gini Reticker
 Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
 2004 - Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Hudson ve Bobby Houston
 Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
 The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak ve Andrzej Celinski
 Hardwood – Hubert Davis ve Erin Faith Young
 Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby ve 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
 2009 - Music by Prudence
 China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
 The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
 The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
 Rabbit à la Berlin

2010'lar

2010 - Strangers No More – Karen Goodman ve Kirk Simon
 Killing in the Name – Jed Rothstein
 Poster Girl – Sara Nesson
 Sun Come Up – Jennifer Redfearn ve Tim Metzger
 The Warriors of Qiugang – Ruby Yang ve Thomas Lennon
2011 - Saving Face – Daniel Junge ve Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
 The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday ve Gail Dolgin
 God Is the Bigger Elvis – Rebecca Cammisa ve Julie Anderson
 Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione
 The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker ve Kira Carstensen
2012 - Inocente – Sean Fine ve Andrea Nix Fine
 Kings Point – Sari Gilman ve Jedd Wider
 Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade ve Robin Honan
 Open Heart – Kief Davidson ve Cori Shepherd Stern
 Redemption – Jon Alpert ve Matthew O'Neill
 2013 The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke ve 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 Barens
 2014 Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 Ellen Goosenberg Kent ve Dana Perry
 Joanna - Aneta Kopacz
 Our Curse - Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki
 The Reaper (La Parka) - Gabriel Serra Arguello
 White Earth - J. Christian Jensen
 2015 A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
 Body Team 12	David Darg ve Bryn Mooser
 Chau, Beyond the Lines	Courtney Marsh veJerry Franck
 Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah - Adam Benzine
 Last Day of Freedom Dee Hibbert''' - Jones ve Nomi Talisman

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