Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject

This is a list of films that have received an Oscar and nomination for best documentary short subject.

• 1941 Churchill's Island - National Film Board of Canada
• 1942 none given
• 1943 December 7th - United States Navy
• 1944 With the Marines at Tarawa -- United States Marine Corps
• 1945 Hitler Lives? - Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
• 1946 Seeds of Destiny - United States Department of War
• 1947 First Steps - United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
• 1948 Toward Independence - United States Army
• 1949 (tie):
  • A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont, Producer
  • So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer, Producer
• 1950 Why Korea? - Edmund Reek, Producer
• 1951 Benjy - 'Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital'
• 1952 Neighbours - Norman McLaren, Producer
• 1953 The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney, Producer
• 1954 Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
• 1955 Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney, Producer
• 1956 The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
• 1957 none given
• 1958 Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
• 1959 Glass - Bert Haanstra, Producer
• 1960 Giuseppina - James Hill, Producer
• 1961 Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas, Producer
• 1962 Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells, Producer
• 1963 Chagall - Simon Schiffrin, Producer
• 1964 Nine from Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
• 1965 To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson, Producer
• 1966 A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy, Producer
• 1967 The Redwoods - Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood, Producers
• 1968 Why Man Creates - Saul Bass, Producer
• 1969 Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers
• 1970 Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick, Producer
• 1971 Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
• 1972 This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
• 1973 Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
• 1974 Don't - Robin Lehman, Producer
• 1975 The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers
• 1976 Number Our Days - Lynne Littman, Producer
• 1977 Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph and Jan Stussy, Producers
• 1978 The Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, Producers
• 1979 Saul J. Turell, Producer
• 1980 Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producer
• 1981 Close Harmony - Nigel Noble, Producer
• 1982 If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain and Terri Nash, Producers
• 1983 Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers
• 1984 The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, Producers
• 1985 David Goodman, Producer
• 1986 Women--for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Producer
• 1987 Young at Heart - Sue Marx and Pamela Conn, Producers
• 1988 You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers
• 1989 The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
• 1990 Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki, Producer
• 1991 Debra Chasnoff, Producer
• 1992 Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin and Gerardine Wurzburg
• 1993 Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
• 1994 A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
• 1995 One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
• 1996 Jessica Yu director, producer, writer and editor
• 2000 Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
• 2001 Thoth - Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle
• 2002 Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port directors
  • The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott producer and director
  • Robert Hudson producer - Robert Houston director
  • Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel directors
• 2003 Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
  • Asylum - Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker
  • Ferry Tales - Katja Esson