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):
- 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 - Princeton: A Search for Answers - 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 - Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist - Saul J. Turell, Producer
- 1980 - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - 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 - Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers
- 1984 - The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, Producers
- 1985 - Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - 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 - Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - 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 - Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - 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
- 2004 Nominations (This line will be replaced with the winner after the awards program)
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