This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year. Copies of every winning film (along with copies of most nominees) are held by the Academy Film Archive.[1] Ten films are shortlisted before nominations are announced.
Per the recent rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a Short Subject Documentary is defined as a nonfiction motion picture "dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects".[2] It may be photographed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact, and not on fiction. It must have a run time of no more than 40 minutes and released during a special eligibility period which may vary from year to year, but generally begins the month of October of the prior year and ends in September of the award year. (This eligibility differs from most other Academy Award categories which only includes films released between January and December of the award year.) The documentary's release must also occur within two years of the film's completion, and there are also rules governing the formatting of audio and video used to produce and exhibit the picture.
In addition, to be eligible the film must meet one of the following criteria:
complete a commercial showing of at least 7 days in either Los Angeles County, California or anywhere in New York City before being released to other non-theatrical venues such as DVD or TV; or
regardless of any public exhibition or nontheatrical release the film must have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival, as specified by the Academy; or
win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal award in the Documentary category of the Academy's Student Academy Award Competition.
The film must run daily for seven days, open to the public for paid admission, and must be advertised in one of the city's major circulars during its run, with screening times included. Additionally, the film must be shown at least once during every day of its qualifying run. Unlike the Best Documentary Feature award, whose rules mandate at least one screening starting between noon and 10 pm local time on each day of the qualifying run, there is no restriction on the start time of any screening. The film must have narration or dialogue primarily in English or with English subtitles, and must be the whole of an original work. Partial edits from larger works and episodes from serialized films are not eligible.[2][3]
Eligibility rules for prior years may have differed from these.
Nomination processEdit
The Documentary Branch of the Academy first votes to select ten pictures for preliminary nomination, after which a second round of balloting is conducted to select the five documentary nominees. The entire Academy membership will then vote for one of these five for the Oscar. A maximum of two people involved with the production of the documentary may be nominated for the award, one of whom must be the film's credited director. One producer may also be nominated, but if more than one non-director producer is credited the Academy Documentary Branch will vet the producers to select the one they believe was most involved in the creation of the film.[4]
^ abA press release issued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005 stated that "Documentary Short Subject winners Benjy (1951) and Neighbours (1952) are among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories. Benjy, directed by Fred Zinnemann and narrated by Henry Fonda, is the fictional tale of a crippled boy. The film was used as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital... Norman McLaren's Neighbours, which today would compete in the Animated Short category, used 'pixelation' – animation using living people – to create an allegory of war."
ReferencesEdit
^"Academy Award-Winning Documentaries". Academy Film Archive. 4 September 2014.
^ ab"Rule Eleven: Special Rules for the Documentary Awards" (PDF). 92nd Academy Awards of Merit: Rules. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (PDF) from the original on April 24, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
^"Rule Nineteen: Special Rules for the Short Film Awards" (PDF). 92nd Academy Awards of Merit: Rules. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (PDF) from the original on April 24, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
^(PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
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This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film Following the Academy s practice the year listed for each film is the year of release the awards are announced and presented early in the following year Copies of every winning film along with copies of most nominees are held by the Academy Film Archive 1 Ten films are shortlisted before nominations are announced Academy Award for Best Documentary Short FilmCountryUnited StatesPresented byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPAS First awarded1941Most recent winnerKartiki Gonsalves Guneet Monga The Elephant Whisperers for 2022 Websiteoscars wbr org Contents 1 Rules and eligibility 1 1 Nomination process 2 Winners and nominees 2 1 1940s 2 2 1950s 2 3 1960s 2 4 1970s 2 5 1980s 2 6 1990s 2 7 2000s 2 8 2010s 2 9 2020s 3 Multiple wins 3 1 Individuals with multiple wins 3 2 Studios with multiple wins 4 Individuals with multiple nominations 5 Notes 6 References 7 See alsoRules and eligibility EditPer the recent rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPAS a Short Subject Documentary is defined as a nonfiction motion picture dealing creatively with cultural artistic historical social scientific economic or other subjects 2 It may be photographed in actual occurrence or may employ partial reenactment stock footage stills animation stop motion or other techniques as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction It must have a run time of no more than 40 minutes and released during a special eligibility period which may vary from year to year but generally begins the month of October of the prior year and ends in September of the award year This eligibility differs from most other Academy Award categories which only includes films released between January and December of the award year The documentary s release must also occur within two years of the film s completion and there are also rules governing the formatting of audio and video used to produce and exhibit the picture In addition to be eligible the film must meet one of the following criteria complete a commercial showing of at least 7 days in either Los Angeles County California or anywhere in New York City before being released to other non theatrical venues such as DVD or TV or regardless of any public exhibition or nontheatrical release the film must have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival as specified by the Academy or win a Gold Silver or Bronze Medal award in the Documentary category of the Academy s Student Academy Award Competition The film must run daily for seven days open to the public for paid admission and must be advertised in one of the city s major circulars during its run with screening times included Additionally the film must be shown at least once during every day of its qualifying run Unlike the Best Documentary Feature award whose rules mandate at least one screening starting between noon and 10 pm local time on each day of the qualifying run there is no restriction on the start time of any screening The film must have narration or dialogue primarily in English or with English subtitles and must be the whole of an original work Partial edits from larger works and episodes from serialized films are not eligible 2 3 Eligibility rules for prior years may have differed from these Nomination process Edit The Documentary Branch of the Academy first votes to select ten pictures for preliminary nomination after which a second round of balloting is conducted to select the five documentary nominees The entire Academy membership will then vote for one of these five for the Oscar A maximum of two people involved with the production of the documentary may be nominated for the award one of whom must be the film s credited director One producer may also be nominated but if more than one non director producer is credited the Academy Documentary Branch will vet the producers to select the one they believe was most involved in the creation of the film 4 Winners and nominees Edit1940s Edit Year Film Nominees1941 14th Churchill s Island National Film Board of CanadaAdventure in the Bronx Film AssociatesBomber United States Office for Emergency Management Film UnitChristmas Under Fire British Ministry of InformationLetter from Home British Ministry of InformationLife of a Thoroughbred Truman TalleyNorway in Revolt The March of TimeA Place to Live Philadelphia Housing AssociationRussian Soil AmkinoSoldiers of the Sky Truman TalleyWarclouds in the Pacific National Film Board of Canada1942 15th Short subject and feature documentaries competed in a combined Best Documentary category 1943 16th note 1 5 December 7th United States NavyChildren of Mars RKO RadioPlan for Destruction Metro Goldwyn MayerSwedes in America United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture BureauTo the People of the United States Walter WangerTomorrow We Fly United States Navy Bureau of AeronauticsYouth in Crisis The March of Time1944 17th With the Marines at Tarawa United States Marine CorpsHymn of the Nations United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture BureauNew Americans RKO Radio1945 18th Hitler Lives Gordon HollingsheadLibrary of Congress United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture BureauTo the Shores of Iwo Jima United States Marine Corps1946 19th Seeds of Destiny United States Department of WarAtomic Power The March of TimeLife at the Zoo ArtkinoParamount News Issue 37 Twentieth Anniversary Issue 1927 1947 ParamountTraffic with the Devil Herbert Morgan1947 20th First Steps United Nations Division of Films and Visual InformationPassport to Nowhere Frederic Ullman Jr School in the Mailbox Australian News amp Information Bureau1948 21st Toward Independence United States ArmyHeart to Heart Herbert MorganOperation Vittles United States Army Air Force1949 22nd A Chance to Live TIE Richard de RochemontSo Much for So Little TIE Edward Selzer1848 French Cinema General CooperativeThe Rising Tide St Francis Xavier University Antigonish Nova Scotia1950s Edit Year Film Nominees1950 23rd Why Korea Edmund ReekThe Fight Science Against Cancer Guy GloverThe Stairs Film Documents Inc 1951 24th Benjy Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital note 2 6 One Who Came Back Owen Crump Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers The Seeing Eye Gordon Hollingshead1952 25th Neighbours Norman McLaren note 2 Devil Take Us Herbert MorganThe Garden Spider Epeira Diadema Alberto AncilottoMan Alive Stephen Bosustow1953 26th The Alaskan Eskimo Walt DisneyThe Living City John BarnesOperation Blue Jay United States Army Signal CorpsThey Planted a Stone James CarrThe Word John Healy and John Adams1954 27th Thursday s Children World Wide Pictures and Morse FilmsJet Carrier Otto LangRembrandt A Self Portrait Morrie Roizman1955 28th Men Against the Arctic Walt DisneyThe Battle of Gettysburg Dore ScharyThe Face of Lincoln Wilbur T Blume1956 29th The True Story of the Civil War Louis Clyde StoumenA City Decides Charles Guggenheim amp Associates Inc The Dark Wave John HealyThe House Without a Name Valentine DaviesMan in Space Ward Kimball1957 30th No award given1958 31st Ama Girls Ben SharpsteenEmployees Only Kenneth G BrownJourney into Spring Ian FergusonThe Living Stone Tom DalyOverture Thorold Dickinson1959 32nd Glass Bert HaanstraDonald in Mathmagic Land Walt DisneyFrom Generation to Generation Edward F Cullen1960s Edit Year Film Nominees1960 33rd Giuseppina James HillBeyond Silence United States Information AgencyA City Called Copenhagen Statens Filmcentral and The Danish Government Film OfficeGeorge Grosz Interregnum Charles Carey and Altina CareyUniverse Colin Low1961 34th Project Hope Frank P BibasBreaking the Language Barrier United States Air ForceCradle of Genius Jim O Connor and Tom HayesKahl Dido Film GmbHL Uomo in Grigio The Man in Gray Benedetto Benedetti1962 35th Dylan Thomas Jack HowellsThe John Glenn Story William L HendricksThe Road to the Wall Robert Saudek1963 36th Chagall Simon SchiffrinThe Five Cities of June George Stevens Jr The Spirit of America Algernon G WalkerThirty Million Letters Edgar AnsteyTo Live Again Mel London1964 37th Nine from Little Rock Charles Guggenheim140 Days Under the World Geoffrey Scott and Oxley HughanBreaking the Habit Henry Jacobs and John KortyChildren Without Charles GuggenheimKenojuak National Film Board of Canada1965 38th To Be Alive Francis ThompsonMural on Our Street Kirk SmallmanOverture Mafilm ProductionsPoint of View Vision Associates ProductionsYeats Country Patrick Carey and Joe Mendoza1966 39th A Year Toward Tomorrow Edmond A LevyAdolescence Marin Karmitz and Vladimir ForgencyCowboy Michael Ahnemann and Gary SchlosserThe Odds Against Lee R Bobker and Helen Kristt RadinSaint Matthew Passion Mafilm Studio1967 40th The Redwoods Mark Jonathan Harris and Trevor GreenwoodMonument to the Dream Charles GuggenheimA Place to Stand Christopher ChapmanSee You at the Pillar Robert FitchettWhile I Run This Race Carl V Ragsdale1968 41st Why Man Creates Saul BassThe House That Ananda Built Fali BilimoriaThe Revolving Door Lee R BobkerA Space to Grow Thomas P Kelly Jr A Way Out of the Wilderness Dan E Weisburd1969 42nd Czechoslovakia 1968 Denis Sanders and Robert M FrescoAn Impression of John Steinbeck Writer Donald WryeJenny Is a Good Thing Joan HorvathLeo Beuerman Arthur H Wolf and Russell A MosserThe Magic Machines Joan Keller Stern1970s Edit Year Film Nominees1970 43rd Interviews with My Lai Veterans Joseph StrickThe Gifts Robert McBrideA Long Way from Nowhere Bob AllerOisin Patrick Carey and Vivien CareyTime Is Running Out Horst Dallmayr and Robert Menegoz1971 44th Sentinels of Silence Manuel Arango and Robert AmramAdventures in Perception Han van GelderArt Is Julian Krainin and DeWitt L Sage Jr The Numbers Start with the River Donald WryeSomebody Waiting Hal Riney Dick Snider and Sherwood Omens1972 45th This Tiny World Charles and Martina Huguenot van der LindenHundertwasser s Rainy Day Peter SchamoniK Z Giorgio TrevesSelling Out Tadeusz JaworskiThe Tide of Traffic Humphrey Swingler1973 46th Princeton A Search for Answers Julian Krainin and DeWitt SageBackground Carmen D AvinoChildren at Work Paisti Ag Obair Louis MarcusChristo s Valley Curtain Albert Maysles and David MayslesFour Stones for Kanemitsu Terry Sanders and June Wayne1974 47th Don t Robin LehmanCity Out of Wilderness Francis ThompsonExploratorium Jon BoorstinJohn Muir s High Sierra Dewitt Jones and Lesley FosterNaked Yoga Ronald S Kass and Mervyn Lloyd1975 48th The End of the Game Claire Wilbur and Robin LehmanArthur and Lillie Jon Else Steven Kovacs and Kristine SamuelsonMillions of Years Ahead of Man Manfred BaierProbes in Space George V CaseyWhistling Smith Barrie Howells and Michael Scott1976 49th Number Our Days Lynne Littman and Barbara MyerhoffAmerican Shoeshine Sparky GreeneBlackwood Tony Ianzelo and Andy ThomsonThe End of the Road John ArmstrongUniverse Lester Novros1977 50th Gravity Is My Enemy John C Joseph and Jan StussyAgueda Martinez Our People Our Country Moctesuma EsparzaFirst Edition Helen Whitney and DeWitt L Sage Jr Of Time Tombs and Treasures James R Messenger and Paul N RaimondiThe Shetland Experience Douglas Gordon1978 51st The Flight of the Gossamer Condor Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben SheddThe Divided Trail A Native American Odyssey Jerry AronsonAn Encounter with Faces K K KapilGoodnight Miss Ann August CinquegranaSquires of San Quentin J Gary Mitchell1979 52nd Paul Robeson Tribute to an Artist Saul J TurellDae Risto TeofilovskiKoryo Celadon Donald A Connolly and James R MessengerNails Phillip BorsosRemember Me Dick Young1980s Edit Year Film Nominees1980 53rd Karl Hess Toward Liberty Roland Halle and Peter LadueDon t Mess with Bill John Watson and Pen DenshamThe Eruption of Mount St Helens George CaseyIt s the Same World Dick YoungLuther Metke at 94 Richard Hawkins and Jorge Preloran1981 54th Close Harmony Nigel NobleAmericas in Transition Obie BenzJourney for Survival Dick YoungSee What I Say Linda Chapman Pam LeBlanc and Freddi StevensUrge to Build Roland Halle and John Hoover1982 55th If You Love This Planet Edward Le Lorrain and Terre NashGods of Metal Robert RichterThe Klan A Legacy of Hate in America Charles Guggenheim and Werner SchumannTo Live or Let Die Freida Lee MockTraveling Hopefully John G Avildsen1983 56th Flamenco at 5 15 Cynthia Scott and Adam SymanskyIn the Nuclear Shadow What Can the Children Tell Us Vivienne Verdon Roe and Eric ThiermannSewing Woman Arthur DongSpaces The Architecture of Paul Rudolph Robert EisenhardtYou Are Free Ihr Zent Frei Dea Brokman and Ilene Landis1984 57th The Stone Carvers Marjorie Hunt and Paul WagnerThe Children of Soong Ching Ling Gary Bush and Paul T K LinCode Gray Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Ben Achtenberg and Joan SawyerThe Garden of Eden Lawrence R Hott and Roger M ShermanRecollections of Pavlovsk Irina Kalinina1985 58th Witness to War Dr Charlie Clements David GoodmanThe Courage to Care Robert GardnerKeats and His Nightingale A Blind Date Michael Crowley and James WolpawMaking Overtures The Story of a Community Orchestra Barbara Willis SweeteThe Wizard of the Strings Alan Edelstein1986 59th Women for America for the World Vivienne Verdon RoeDebonair Dancers Alison Nigh StrelichThe Masters of Disaster Sonya FriedmanRed Grooms Sunflower in a Hothouse Thomas L Neff and Madeline BellSam Aaron D Weisblatt1987 60th Young at Heart Sue Marx and Pamela ConnFrances Steloff Memoirs of a Bookseller Deborah DicksonIn the Wee Wee Hours Dr Frank Daniel and Izak Ben MeirLanguage Says It All Megan WilliamsSilver into Gold Lynn Mueller1988 61st You Don t Have to Die Malcolm Clarke and Bill GuttentagThe Children s Storefront Karen GoodmanFamily Gathering Lise Yasui and Ann TegnellGang Cops Thomas B Fleming and Daniel J MarksPortrait of Imogen Nancy Hale and Meg Partridge1989 62nd The Johnstown Flood Charles GuggenheimFine Food Fine Pastries Open 6 to 9 David PetersenYad Vashem Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future Ray Errol Fox1990s Edit Year Film Nominees1990 63rd Days of Waiting Steven OkazakiBurning Down Tomorrow Kit ThomasChimps So Like Us Karen Goodman and Kirk SimonJourney Into Life The World of the Unborn Derek BromhallRose Kennedy A Life to Remember Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders1991 64th Deadly Deception General Electric Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment Debra ChasnoffBirdnesters of Thailand Shadow Hunters Eric Valli and Alain MajaniA Little Vicious Immy HumesThe Mark of the Maker David McGowanMemorial Letters from American Soldiers Bill Couturie and Bernard Edelman1992 65th Educating Peter Thomas C Goodwin posthumously and Gerardine WurzburgAt the Edge of Conquest The Journey of Chief Wai Wai Geoffrey O ConnorBeyond Imagining Margaret Anderson and the Little Review Wendy L WeinbergThe Colours of My Father A Portrait of Sam Borenstein Richard Elson and Sally BochnerWhen Abortion Was Illegal Untold Stories Dorothy Fadiman1993 66th Defending Our Lives Margaret Lazarus and Renner WunderlichBlood Ties The Life and Work of Sally Mann Steven Cantor and Peter SpirerChicks in White Satin Elaine Holliman and Jason Schneider1994 67th A Time for Justice Charles GuggenheimBlues Highway Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag89 mm od Europy 89mm from Europe Marcel LozinskiSchool of Assassins Robert RichterStraight from the Heart Dee Mosbacher and Frances Reid1995 68th One Survivor Remembers Kary AntholisJim Dine A Self Portrait on the Walls Nancy Dine and Richard StilwellThe Living Sea Greg MacGillivray and Alec LorimoreNever Give Up The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper Terry Sanders and Freida Lee MockThe Shadow of Hate Charles Guggenheim1996 69th Breathing Lessons The Life and Work of Mark O Brien Jessica YuCosmic Voyage Jeffrey Marvin and Bayley SilleckAn Essay on Matisse Perry WolffSpecial Effects Anything Can Happen Susanne Simpson and Ben BurttThe Wild Bunch An Album in Montage Paul Seydor and Nick Redman1997 70th A Story of Healing Donna Dewey and Carol PasternakAlaska Spirit of the Wild George Casey and Paul NovrosAmazon Kieth Merrill and Jonathan SternDaughter of the Bride Terri RandallStill Kicking The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies Mel Damski and Andrea Blaugrund1998 71st The Personals Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years Keiko IbiA Place in the Land Charles GuggenheimSunrise Over Tiananmen Square Shui Bo Wang and Donald McWilliams1999 72nd King Gimp Susan Hannah Hadary and William A WhitefordEyewitness Bert Van BorkThe Wildest Show in the South The Angola Prison Rodeo Simeon Soffer and Jonathan Stack2000s Edit Year Film Nominees2000 73rd Big Mama Tracy SereteanCurtain Call Chuck Braverman and Steve KalaferDolphins Greg MacGillivray and Alec LorimoreThe Man on Lincoln s Nose Daniel RaimOn Tiptoe Gentle Steps to Freedom Eric Simonson and Leelai Demoz2001 74th Thoth Sarah Kernochan and Lynn AppelleArtists and Orphans A True Drama Lianne Klapper McNallySing Freida Lee Mock and Jessica Sanders2002 75th Twin Towers Bill Guttentag and Robert David PortThe Collector of Bedford Street Alice ElliottMighty Times The Legacy of Rosa Parks Robert Hudson and Bobby HoustonWhy Can t We Be a Family Again Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel2003 76th Chernobyl Heart Maryann DeLeoAsylum Sandy McLeod and Gini RetickerFerry Tales Katja Esson2004 77th Mighty Times The Children s March Robert Hudson and Robert HoustonAutism Is a World Gerardine WurzburgThe Children of Leningradsky Hanna Polak and Andrzej CelinskiHardwood Hubert Davis and Erin Faith YoungSister Rose s Passion Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer2005 78th A Note of Triumph The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Corinne Marrinan and Eric SimonsonThe Death of Kevin Carter Casualty of the Bang Bang Club Dan KraussGod Sleeps in Rwanda Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy ShermanThe Mushroom Club Steven Okazaki2006 79th The Blood of Yingzhou District Ruby Yang and Thomas LennonRecycled Life Leslie Iwerks and Mike GladRehearsing a Dream Karen Goodman and Kirk SimonTwo Hands Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr2007 80th Freeheld Cynthia Wade and Vanessa RothLa Corona The Crown Amanda Micheli and Isabel VegaSalim Baba Tim Sternberg and Francisco BelloSari s Mother James Longley2008 81st Smile Pinki Megan MylanThe Conscience of Nhem En Steven OkazakiThe Final Inch Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom GrantThe Witness From the Balcony of Room 306 Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde2009 82nd Music by Prudence Roger Ross Williams and Elinor BurkettChina s Unnatural Disaster The Tears of Sichuan Province Jon Alpert and Matthew O NeillThe Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner Daniel Junge and Henry AnsbacherThe Last Truck Closing of a GM Plant Steven Bognar and Julia ReichertRabbit a la Berlin Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra2010s Edit Year Film Nominees2010 83rd Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk SimonKilling in the Name Jed RothsteinPoster Girl Sara Nesson and Mitchell BlockSun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim MetzgerThe Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon2011 84th Saving Face Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid ChinoyThe Barber of Birmingham Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement Robin Fryday and Gail DolginGod Is the Bigger Elvis Rebecca Cammisa and Julie AndersonIncident in New Baghdad James SpioneThe Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen2012 85th Inocente Sean Fine and Andrea Nix FineKings Point Sari Gilman and Jedd WiderMondays at Racine Cynthia Wade and Robin HonanOpen Heart Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd SternRedemption Jon Alpert and Matthew O Neill2013 86th The Lady in Number 6 Music Saved My Life Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas ReedCaveDigger Jeffrey KaroffFacing Fear Jason CohenKarama Has No Walls Sara IshaqPrison Terminal The Last Days of Private Jack Hall Edgar Barens2014 87th Crisis Hotline Veterans Press 1 Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana PerryJoanna Aneta KopaczOur Curse Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej SlesickiThe Reaper La Parka Gabriel Serra ArguelloWhite Earth J Christian Jensen2015 88th A Girl in the River The Price of Forgiveness Sharmeen Obaid ChinoyBody Team 12 David Darg and Bryn MooserChau Beyond the Lines Courtney Marsh and Jerry FranckClaude Lanzmann Spectres of the Shoah Adam BenzineLast Day of Freedom Dee Hibbert Jones and Nomi Talisman2016 89th 7 The White Helmets Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna NatasegaraExtremis Dan Krauss4 1 Miles Daphne MatziarakiJoe s Violin Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela NeihausenWatani My Homeland Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis2017 90th 8 Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Frank StiefelEdith Eddie Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee WrightHeroin e Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin SheldonKnife Skills Thomas LennonTraffic Stop Kate Davis and David Heilbroner2018 91st Period End of Sentence Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa BertonBlack Sheep Ed Perkins and Jonathan ChinnEnd Game Rob Epstein and Jeffrey FriedmanLifeboat Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn MooserA Night at the Garden Marshall Curry2019 92nd Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone If You re a Girl Carol Dysinger and Elena AndreichevaIn the Absence Yi Seung Jun and Gary Byung Seok KamLife Overtakes Me John Haptas and Kristine SamuelsonSt Louis Superman Smriti Mundhra and Sami KhanWalk Run Cha Cha Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt2020s Edit Year Film Nominees2020 21 93rd Colette Anthony Giacchino and Alice DoyardA Concerto Is a Conversation Ben Proudfoot and Kris BowersDo Not Split Anders Hammer and Charlotte CookHunger Ward Skye Fitzgerald and Michael ScheuermanA Love Song for Latasha Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan2021 94th The Queen of Basketball Ben ProudfootAudible Matthew Ogens and Geoff McLeanLead Me Home Pedro Kos and Jon ShenkThree Songs for Benazir Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan MirzaeiWhen We Were Bullies Jay Rosenblatt2022 95th The Elephant Whisperers Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet MongaHaulout Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim ArbugaevHow Do You Measure a Year Jay RosenblattThe Martha Mitchell Effect Anne Alvergue and Beth LevisonStranger at the Gate Joshua Seftel and Conall JonesMultiple wins EditIndividuals with multiple wins Edit 3 winsCharles Guggenheim2 winsMalcolm Clarke Walt Disney Bill Guttentag Robin Lehman Sharmeen Obaid ChinoyStudios with multiple wins Edit 4 winsNational Film Board of Canada3 winsWalt Disney ProductionsIndividuals with multiple nominations Edit9 nominationsCharles Guggenheim4 nominationsKaren Goodman Freida Lee Mock3 nominationsGeorge Casey Walt Disney Bill Guttentag Thomas Lennon The March of Time Herbert Morgan National Film Board of Canada Steven Okazaki DeWitt L Sage Jr Terry Sanders Kirk Simon United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau Dick Young 2 nominationsJon Alpert Lee R Bobker British Ministry of Information Patrick Carey Malcolm Clarke Skye Fitzgerald Roland Halle John Healy Gordon Hollingshead Bobby Houston Daniel Junge Steve Kalafer Julian Krainin Dan Krauss Robin Lehman Alec Lorimore James R Messenger Greg MacGillivray Mafilm Studio Matthew O Neill Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Ben Proudfoot Robert Richter RKO Radio Jay Rosenblatt Eric Simonson Truman Talley Francis Thompson United States Marine Corps Vivienne Verdon Roe Cynthia Wade Donald Wrye Gerardine Wurzburg Ruby YangNotes Edit A preliminary list of 21 films were announced as nominees but the Documentary Award Committee subsequently narrowed the field to 7 titles included on the final ballot The 14 films that did not advance were Bismarck Convoy Smashed Australian Department of Information Film Unit Day of Battle United States Office of War Information Domestic Motion Picture Bureau The Dutch Tradition National Film Board of Canada Kill or Be Killed British Ministry of Information The Labor Front National Film Board of Canada Land of My Mother Polish Information Centre Letter from Livingston United States Army 4th Signal Photographic Unit Life Line United States Army Pictorial Service The Rear Gunner United States Department of War Servant of a Nation Union of South Africa Task Force United States Coast Guard The Voice That Thrilled the World Warner Bros Water Friend or Enemy Walt Disney and Wings Up United States Army Air Force 1st Motion Picture Unit a b A press release issued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005 stated that Documentary Short Subject winners Benjy 1951 and Neighbours 1952 are among a group of films that not only competed but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories Benjy directed by Fred Zinnemann and narrated by Henry Fonda is the fictional tale of a crippled boy The film was used as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital Norman McLaren s Neighbours which today would compete in the Animated Short category used pixelation animation using living people to 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