Oscar de melhor Documentário de curta-metragem (do inglês Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, inicialmente chamado de Best Documentary), é uma categoria de premiação do Óscar referente a escolha de melhor produção cinematográfica curta do tipo documental; é um prêmio anual que começou a ser concedido em 1942 pela Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas dos Estados Unidos, a uma produção de curta duração (menos de 40 minutos) que retrata a realidade, produzido no ano anterior ao da realização da cerimônia.
Indicados e vencedores Lista incompleta de filmes indicados e vencedores do prêmio Oscar de melhor documentário de curta-metragem:
Década de 2020 2025 (98°)
All the Empty Rooms Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud Children No More: "Were and Are Gone" The Devil Is Busy Perfectly a Strangeness
2024 (97°)
The Only Girl in the Orchestra Death by Numbers I Am Ready, Warden Incident Instruments of a Beating Heart
2023 (96°)
The Last Repair Shop The ABCs of Book Banning The Barber of Little Rock Island in Between Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
2022 (95°)
Como Cuidar de um Bebê Elefante Haulout How Do You Measure a Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Stranger at the Gate
2021 (94°)
The Queen of Basketball Audible Lead Me Home Three Songs for Benazir When We Were Bullies
2020 (93°)
Colette A Concerto Is a Conversation Do Not Split Hunger Ward A Love Song for Latasha
Década de 2010 2019 (92°)
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) In the Absence Life Overtakes Me St. Louis Superman Walk Run Cha-Cha 2018 (91°)
Period. End of Sentence. Black Sheep End Game Lifeboat A Night at The Garden
2017 (90°)
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Edith+Eddie Heroin(e) Knife Skills Traffic Stop
2016 (89°)
The White Helmets Extremis 4.1 Miles Joe's Violin Watani: My Homeland
2015 (88°)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness Body Team 12 Chau, Beyond the Lines Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah Last Day of Freedom
2014 (87°)
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 Joanna Our Curse The Reaper (La Parka) White Earth
2013 (86°)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life CaveDigger Facing Fear Karama Has No Walls Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
2012 (85°)
Inocente Kings Point Mondays at Racine Open Heart Redemption
2011 (84°)
Saving Face The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement God Is the Bigger Elvis Incident in New Baghdad The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
2010 (83°)
Strangers No More Killing in the Name Poster Girl Sun Come Up The Warriors of Qiugang
Década de 2000 2009 (82°)
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 2008 (81°)
Smile Pinki The Conscience of Nhem En The Final Inch The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 2007 (80°) Freeheld La Corona Salim Baba Sari's Mother 2006 (79°) The Blood of Yingzhou District Recycled Life Rehearsing a Dream Two Hands 2005 (78°) A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club God Sleeps in Ruanda The Mushroom Club 2004 (77°) Mighty Times: The Children's March Autism in the World The Children of Leningradsky Hardwood Sister Rose's Passion 2003 (76°) Chernobyl Heart Asylum Ferry Tales 2002 (75°) Twin Towers The Collector of Bedford Street Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks Why Can't we be a Family Again? 2001 (74°) Thoth Artists and Orphans: A True Drama Sing! 2000 (73°) Big Mama Curtain Call Dolphins The Man on Lincoln's Nose On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
Década de 1990 1999 (72°) King Gimp Eyewitness Prison Rodeo The Wildest Show in the South: the Angola 1998 (71°) The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in Golden Years A Place in the Land Sunrise over Tiananmen Square 1997 (70°) A Story of Healing Alaska: Spirit of the Wild Amazon Daughter of the Bride Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies 1996 (69°) Breathing Lessons: The Life And Work Of Mark O'brien Cosmic Voyage An Essay on Matisse Special Effects The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage 1995 (68°)
One Survivor Remembers Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls The Living Sea Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper The Shadow of Hate
1994 (67°)
A Time for Justice Blues Highway 89mm od Europy (89mm from Europe) School of Assassins Straight from the Heart
1993 (66°)
Defending Our Lives Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann Chicks in White Satin
1992 (65°)
Educating Peter At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the "Little Review" The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories
1991 (64°)
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment Birdnesters of Thailand (aka "Shadow Hunters") A Little Vicious The Mark of the Maker Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1990 (63°)
Days of Waiting Burning Down Tomorrow Chimps: So Like Us Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
Década de 1980 1989 (62°)
The Johnstown Flood Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future 1988 (61°)
You Don't Have to Die The Children's Storefront Family Gathering Gang Cops Portrait of Imogen
1987 (60°)
Young at Heart Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller In the Wee Wee Hours... Language Says It All Silver into Gold
1986 (59°)
Women – for America, for the World Debonair Dancers The Masters of Disaster Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse Sam
1985 (58°)
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements The Courage to Care Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date Making Overtures--The Story of a Community Orchestra The Wizard of the Strings
1984 (57°)
The Stone Carvers The Children of Soong Ching Ling Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing The Garden of Eden Recollections of Pavlovsk
1983 (56°)
Flamenco at 5:15 In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? Sewing Woman Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei)
1982 (55°)
If You Love This Planet Gods of Metal The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America To Live or Let Die Traveling Hopefully
1981 (54°)
Close Harmony Americas in Transition Journey for Survival See What I Say Urge to Build
1980 (53°)
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty Don't Mess with Bill The Eruption of Mount St. Helens It's the Same World Luther Metke at 94
Década de 1970 1979 (52°)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist Dae Koryo Celadon Nails Remember Me 1978 (51°)
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey An Encounter with Faces Goodnight Miss Ann Squires of San Quentin
1977 (50°)
Gravity Is My Enemy Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country First Edition Of Time, Tombs and Treasure The Shetland Experience
1976 (49°)
Number Our Days American Shoeshine Blackwood The End of the Road Universe
1975 (48°)
The End of the Game Arthur and Lillie Millions of Years Ahead of Man Probes in Space Whistling Smith
1974 (47°)
Don't City Out of Wilderness Exploratorium John Muir's High Sierra Naked Yoga
1973 (46°)
Princeton: A Search for Answers Background Children at Work (Paisti Ag Obair) Christo's Valley Curtain Four Stones for Kanemitsu
1972 (45°)
This Tiny World Hundertwasser's Rainy Day K-Z Selling Out The Tide of Traffic
1971 (44°)
Sentinels of Silence Adventures in Perception Art Is... The Numbers Start with the River Somebody Waiting
1970 (43°)
Interviews with My Lai Veterans The Gifts A Long Way from Nowhere Oisin Time Is Running Out
Década de 1960 1969 (42°)
Czechoslovakia 1968 An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer Jenny Is a Good Thing Leo Beuerman The Magic Machines 1968 (41°)
Why Man Creates
The House That Ananda Built The Revolving Door A Space to Grow A Way Out of the Wilderness
1967 (40°)
The Redwoods Monument to the Drea, A Place to Stand See You at the Pillar While I Run This Race
1966 (39°)
A Year toward Tomorrow Adolescence Cowboy The Odds Against Saint Matthew Passion
1965 (38°)
To Be Alive! Mural on Our Street Ouverture Point of View Yeats Country
1964 (37°)
Nine from Little Rock Breaking The Habit Children Without Kenojuak 140 Days under the World
1963 (36°)
Chagall The Five Cities of June The Spirit of America Thirty Million Letters To Live Again
1962 (35°)
Dylan Thomas The John Glen Story The Road to the Wall
1961 (34°)
Project Hope Breaking the Language Barrier Cradle of Genius Kahl L'Uimo Grigio
1960 (33°)
Giuseppina Beyond Silence A City Called Copenhagen George Grosz' Interregnum Universe
Década de 1950 1959 (32°)
Glass Donald in Mathmagic From Generation to Generation
1958 (31°)
Ama Girls Employees Only Journey into Spring The Living Stone Overture
1957 (30°)
Não houve nomeação
1956 (29°)
The True Story of the Civil War A City Decides The Dark Waves The House without a Name Man in Space
1955 (28°)
Men against the Artic The Face of Lincoln The Batlle of Gettyburg
1954 (27°)
Thursday's Children Rembrendt: A Self-Portrait Jet Carrier
1953 (26°)
The Alaska Eskimo The Living City Operation Blue Jay They Planted a Stone The Word
1952 (25°)
Neighbours Man Alive! The Garden Spider (Epeira Diadema) Devil Take Us
1951 (24°)
Benjy One Who Came Back The Seeing Eye
1950 (23°)
Why Korea? The Stairs The Fight: Science against Cancer
Década de 1940 1949 (22°)
A Chance to Live So Much dor So Little 1848 The Rising Tide
1948 (21°)
Toward Independence Operation Vittles Heart to Heart
1947 (20°)
First Steps Passport to Nowwhere School in the Mailbox
1946 (19°)
Seed of Destiny Atomic Power Life of the Zoo Paramount News Issue #37 Traffic with the Devil
1945 (18°)
Hitler Lives? Library of Congress To the Shores of Iwo Jima 1944 (17°) With the Marines at Tawara Arturo Toscanini New Americans 1943 (16°) Não houve nomeação oficial, apenas uma lista preliminar. 1941 (14°)
Churchill's Island Adventure in the Bronx Bomber Christmas Under Fire Letter from Home Life of a Thoroughbred Norway in Revolt A Place to Live Russian Soil Soldiers of the Sky War Clouds in the Pacific
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