Óscar á mellor curtametraxe documental

O Oscar á mellor curtametraxe documental é un premio entregado pola Academia das Artes e das Ciencias Cinematográficas como parte dos premios Oscar.

Unha nota de prensa da Academia en 2005 indicaba que "os gañadores do premio á mellor curtametraxe documental Benjy (1951) e Neighbours (1952) están nun grupo de filmes que non só competiron, senón que gañaron Oscars en categorías inadecuadas.  Benjy, dirixida por Fred Zinnemann e narrada por Henry Fonda é un conto ficticio sobre un rapaz discapacitado. O filme foi empregado para conseguir fondos para o Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital.  (...) Neighbours, de Norman McLaren, que hoxe competiría na categoría de curtametraxes de animación, empregaba "pixelación" – animación usando actores – para crear unha alegoría da guerra".

 Candidatos e gañadores 
 1940 
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
A Place to Live
Russian Soil
Soldiers of the Sky
Warclouds in the Pacific
1942 (15ª) – Nesta edición nomeáronse vinte e cinco filmes e entregáronse catro premios especiais, en recoñecemento ao esforzo dos aliados na Segunda Guerra Mundial: 
 The Battle of Midway – United States Navy ("Premio especial para Battle of Midway polo valor histórico do seu éxito ao ofrecer unha gravación dunha das batallas decisivas do mundo – unha gravación única pola valentía dos que a fixeron baixo o fogo e polo magnífico retrato do valor das nosas forzas armadas na batalla".Kokoda Front Line! – Australian News & Information Bureau ("Premio especial para Kokoda Front Line! pola súa efectividade ao retratar de xeito simple mais con forza o escenario da guerra en Nova Guinea e pola súa presentación da valentía e fortaleza dos nosos compañeiros nas armas".Moscow Strikes Back – Artkino ("Premio especial para Moscow Strikes Back pola súa vivaz presentación do heroísmo do exército e do pobo rusos na defensa de Moscova, e polo seu éxito en facelo baixo condicións de extrema dificultade e perigo".Prelude to War – United States Army Special Services ("Premio especial para Prelude to War polo seu concepto agudo e auténtico e pola estimulante dramatización dos sucesos que levaron a nosa nación á guerra e dos ideais polos que loitamos".
Africa, Prelude to Victory – The March of Time
Combat Report – United States Army Signal Corps
Conquer by the Clock – Frederic Ullman, Jr., produtor
The Grain That Built a Hemisphere – Walt Disney, produtor – 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 e Edgar Loew, produtores
Mr. Blabbermouth!—United States Office of War Information
Mr. Gardenia Jones—United States Office of War Information
The New Spirit – Walt Disney, produtor – Walt Disney Productions
The Price of Victory – William H. Pine, produtor
A Ship Is Born – United States Merchant Marine
Twenty-One Miles—British Ministry of Information
We Refuse to Die – William C. Thomas, produtor
The White Eagle – Concanen Films
Winning Your Wings – United States Army Air Forces1943 (16ª) – 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 Crisis1944 (17ª) – With the Marines at Tarawa – United States Marine Corps
Hymn of the Nations
New Americans1945 (18ª) – Hitler Lives – Gordon Hollingshead, produtor
Library of Congress
To the Shores of Iwo Jima1946 (19ª) – Seeds of Destiny – United States Department of War
Atomic Power
Life at the Zoo
Paramount News Issue#37
Traffic with the Devil1947 (20ª) – First Steps – United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
Passport to Nowhere
School in the Mailbox1948 (21ª) – Toward Independence – United States Army
Heart to Heart
Operation Vittles1949 (22ª) – (empate):
A Chance To Live – Richard de Rochemont, produtor
So Much for So Little – Edward Selzer, produtor
1848
The Rising Tide

 1950 
1950 (23ª) – Why Korea? – Edmund Reek, produtor 
The Fight: Science Against Cancer
The Stairs
1951 (24ª) – Benjy – Dirixido por Fred Zinnemann coa cooperación de Paramount Pictures Corporation para Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital 
One Who Came Back
The Seeing Eye
1952 (25ª) – Neighbours – Norman McLaren, produtor – National Film Board of Canada 
Devil Take Us
Epeira Diadema
Man Alive!
1953 (26ª) – The Alaskan Eskimo – Walt Disney, produtor – Walt Disney Productions
The Living City
Operation Blue Jay
They Planted a Stone
The Word
1954 (27ª) – Thursday's Children – World Wide Pictures and Morse Films 
Jet Carrier
Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1955 (28ª) – Men against the Arctic – Walt Disney, produtor – Walt Disney Productions
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Face of Lincoln
1956 (29ª) – The True Story of the Civil War – Louis Clyde Stoumen, produtor 
Man in Space
A City Decides
The Dark Wave
The House Without a Name
1957 (30ª) – Non se entregou premio nesta categoría
1958 (31ª) – Ama Girls – Ben Sharpsteen, produtor 
Employees Only
Journey Into Spring
The Living Stone
Oeuverture
1959 (32ª) – Glass – Bert Haanstra, produtor
Donald in Mathmagic Land
From Generation to Generation

 1960 
1960 (33ª) – Giuseppina – James Hill, produtor 
Beyond Silence
En by ved navn København
George Grosz' Interregnum
Universe
1961 (34ª) – Project Hope – Frank P. Bibas, produtor 
Breaking the Language Barrier
Cradle of Genius
Kahl
L'uomo in grigio
1962 (35ª) – Dylan Thomas – Jack Howells, produtor 
The John Glenn Story
The Road to the Wall
1963 (36ª) – Chagall – Simon Schiffrin, produtor 
The Five Cities of June
The Spirit of America
Thirty Million Letters
To Live Again
1964 (37ª) – Nine from Little Rock – Charles Guggenheim, produtor 
140 Days Under the World
Breaking the Habit
Children Without
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
1965 (38ª) – To Be Alive! – Francis Thompson, produtor 
Mural on Our Street
Nyitany
Point of View
Yeats Country
1966 (39ª) – A Year Toward Tomorrow – Edmond A. Levy, produtor 
Adolescence
Cowboy
The Odds Against
Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából
1967 (40ª) – The Redwoods – Mark Harris e Trevor Greenwood, produtores 
Monument to the Dream
A Place to Stand
See You at the Pillar
While I Run This Race
1968 (41ª) – Why Man Creates – Saul Bass, produtor 
The House That Ananda Built
The Revolving Door
A Space to Grow
A Way Out of the Wilderness
1969 (42ª) – Czechoslovakia 1968 – Denis Sanders e Robert M. Fresco, produtores
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
Jenny Is a Good Thing
Leo Beuerman
The Magic Machines

 1970 
1970 (43ª) – Interviews with My Lai Veterans – Joseph Strick, produtor 
The Gifts
A Long Way from Nowhere
Oisin
Time Is Running Out
1971 (44ª) – Sentinels of Silence – Manuel Arango e Robert Amram, produtores 
Adventures in Perception
Art Is...
The Numbers Start with the River
Somebody Waiting
1972 (45ª) – This Tiny World – Charles Huguenot van der Linden e Martina Huguenot van der Linden, produtores 
Hundertwassers Regentag
K-Z
Selling Out
The Tide of Traffic
1973 (46ª) – Princeton: A Search for Answers – Julian Krainin e DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., produtores 
Background
Christo's Valley Curtain
Four Stones for Kanemitsu
Paisti ag obair
1974 (47ª) – Don't – Robin Lehman, produtor 
City Out of Wilderness
Exploratorium
John Muir's High Sierra
Naked Yoga
1975 (48ª) – The End of the Game – Claire Wilbur e Robin Lehman, produtores 
Arthur and Lillie
Millions of Years Ahead of Man
Probes in Space
Whistling Smith
1976 (49ª) – Number Our Days – Lynne Littman e Barbara Myerhoff, produtores 
American Shoeshine
Blackwood
The End of the Road
Universe
1977 (50ª) – Gravity Is My Enemy – John C. Joseph e Jan Stussy, produtores 
Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
First Edition
Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
The Shetland Experience
1978 (51ª) – The Flight of the Gossamer Condor – Jacqueline Phillips Shedd e Ben Shedd, produtores 
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
An Encounter with Faces
Goodnight Miss Ann
Squires of San Quentin
1979 (52ª) – Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist – Saul J. Turell, produtor
Dae
Koryo Celadon
Nails
Remember Me

 1980 
1980 (53ª) – Karl Hess: Toward Liberty – Roland Hallé e Peter W. Ladue, produtor 
Don't Mess with Bill
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
It's the Same World
Luther Metke at 94
1981 (54ª) – Close Harmony – Nigel Noble, produtor 
Americas in Transition
Journey for Survival
See What I Say
Urge to Build
1982 (55ª) – If You Love This Planet – Edward Le Lorrain e Terre Nash, produtores – National Film Board of Canada 
Gods of Metal
The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
To Live or Let Die
Traveling Hopefully
1983 (56ª) – Flamenco at 5:15 – Cynthia Scott e Adam Symansky, produtores – 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 (57ª) – The Stone Carvers – Marjorie Hunt e Paul Wagner, produtores 
The Children of Soong Ching Ling
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
The Garden of Eden
Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
1985 (58ª) – Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements – David Goodman, produtor 
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 (59ª) – Women – for America, for the World – Vivienne Verdon-Roe, produtor 
Sam
Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
The Master of Disaster
Debonair Dancers
1987 (60ª) – Young at Heart – Sue Marx e Pamela Conn, produtores 
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
In the Wee Wee Hours...
Language Says It All
Silver Into Gold
1988 (61ª) – You Don't Have to Die – William Guttentag e Malcolm Clarke, produtores 
Gang Cops
Family Gathering
The Children's Storefront
Portrait of Imogen
1989 (62ª) – The Johnstown Flood – Charles Guggenheim, produtor 
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

 1990 
1990 (63ª) – Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo – Steven Okazaki, produtor 
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
Chimps: So Like Us
Burning Down Tomorrow
Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
1991 (64ª) – Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment – Debra Chasnoff, produtor 
A Little Vicious
The Mark of the Maker
Birdnesters of Thailand
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1992 (65ª) – Educating Peter – Thomas C. Goodwin e 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 e Sally Bochner
1993 (66ª) – Defending Our Lives – Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich 
Chicks in White Satin
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
1994 (67ª) – A Time for Justice – Charles Guggenheim 
89 mm od Europy
Blues Highway
School of the Americas Assassins
Straight from the Heart
1995 (68ª) – 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 (69ª) – Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien – Jessica Yu directora, produtora, guionista e montadora 
Cosmic Voyage
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
An Essay on Matisse
1997 (70ª) – 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 (71ª) – 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 (72ª) – King Gimp – Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford 
Eyewitness
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

 2000 
2000 (73ª) – Big Mama – Tracy Seretean
Curtain Call
Dolphins
On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2001 (74ª) – Thoth – Sarah Kernochan e Lynn Appelle
Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Sing!
2002 (75ª) – Twin Towers – Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, directores
 The Collector of Bedford Street – Welcome Change Productions – Alice Elliott, produtor e director
 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks – Tell the Truth Pictures – Robert Hudson, produtor – Robert Houston, director
 Why Can't We Be a Family Again? – Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel directores
2003 (76ª) – Chernobyl Heart – Maryann DeLeo
Asylum – Sandy McLeod e Gini Reticker
Ferry Tales – Katja Esson
2004 (77ª) – Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Houston e Robert Hudson
 Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
 The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak e Andrzej Celinski
 Hardwood – Hubert Davis e Erin Faith Young
 Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby e Steve Kalafer
2005 (78ª) – 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 (79ª) – The Blood of Yingzhou District
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
2007 (80ª) – Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
2008 (81ª) – Smile Pinki
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 3062009 (82ª) – 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 
2010 (83ª) – Strangers No More – Karen Goodman e Kirk Simon
 Killing in the Name – Jed Rothstein
 Poster Girl – Sara Nesson
 Sun Come Up – Jennifer Redfearn e Tim Metzger
 The Warriors of Qiugang – Ruby Yang e Thomas Lennon
2011 (84ª) – Saving Face – Daniel Junge e Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
 The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday e Gail Dolgin
 God Is the Bigger Elvis – Rebecca Cammisa e Julie Anderson
 Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione
 The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker e Kira Carstensen
2012 (85ª) – Inocente – Sean Fine e Andrea Nix Fine
 Kings Point – Sari Gilman e Jedd Wider
 Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade e Robin Honan
 Open Heart – Kief Davidson e Cori Shepherd Stern
 Redemption – Jon Alpert e Matthew O'Neill
2013 (86ª) – The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life – Malcolm Clarke e 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 (87ª) – Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent e Dana Perry
 Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
 Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński e Maciej Ślesicki
 La Parka – Gabriel Serra Arguello
 White Earth – J. Christian Jensen
2015 (88ª) – A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
 Body Team 12 – David Darg e Bryn Mooser
 Chau, Beyond the Lines – Courtney Marsh e Jerry Franck
 Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah – Adam Benzine
 Last Day of Freedom – Dee Hibbert-Jones e Nomi Talisman
2016 (89ª) – The White Helmets – Orlando von Einsiedel e Joanna Natasegara 4.1 Miles – Daphne Matziaraki
 Extremis – Dan Krauss
 Joe's Violin – Kahane Cooperman e Raphaela Neihausen
 Watani: My Homeland – Marcel Mettelsiefen e Stephen Ellis2017 (90ª) – Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – Frank Stiefel Edith+Eddie – Laura Checkoway e Thomas Lee Wright
 Heroin(e) – Elaine McMillion Sheldon e Kerrin Sheldon
 Knife Skills – Thomas Lennon
 Traffic Stop – Kate Davis e David Heilbroner2018 (91ª) – Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi e Melissa Berton Black Sheep – Ed Perkins e Jonathan Chinn
 End Game – Rob Epstein e Jeffrey Friedman
 Lifeboat – Skye Fitzgerald e Bryn Mooser
 A Night at the Garden – Marshall Curry2019 (92ª) – Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) – Carol Dysinger e Elena Andreicheva
 In the Absence – Yi Seung-Jun e Gary Byung-Seok Kam
 Life Overtakes Me – John Haptas e Kristine Samuelson
 St. Louis Superman – Smriti Mundhra e Sami Khan
 Walk Run Cha-Cha – Laura Nix e Colette Sandstedt

 2020 
2020 (93ª) – Colette – Anthony Giacchino e Alice Doyard
 A Concerto Is a Conversation – Ben Proudfoot e Kris Bowers
 Do Not Split – Anders Hammer e Charlotte Cook
 Hunger Ward – Skye Fitzgerald e Michael Scheuerman
 A Love Song for Latasha – Sophia Nahali Allison e Janice Duncan

2021 (94ª) – The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot
 Audible – Matthew Ogens e Geoff McLean
 Lead Me Home – Pedro Kos e Jon Shenk
 Three Songs for Benazir – Elizabeth Mirzaei e Gulistan Mirzaei
 When We Were Bullies – Jay Rosenblatt

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