Academy Award untuk Film Pendek Dokumenter Terbaik

Berikut adalah daftar film berdasarkan tahun yang menerima Penghargaan Akademi bersama dengan nominasi lain untuk film pendek dokumenter terbaik. Mengikuti praktik Akademi, tahun yang dicantumkan untuk setiap film adalah tahun peluncurannya: penghargaan diumumkan dan diberikan pada awal tahun berikutnya. Salinan dari setiap film pemenang (bersama dengan salinan dari sebagian besar film yang dinominasikan) dipegang oleh Academy Film Archive. Lima belas film disaring terlebih dahulu sebelum nominasi diumumkan.

 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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