Óscar á mellor curtametraxe documental

O Oscar á mellor curtametraxedocumental é un premio entregado pola Academia das Artes e das Ciencias Cinematográficas como parte dos premios Oscar.

Unha nota de prensa da Academia en 2005 indicaba que "os gañadores do premio á mellor curtametraxe documental Benjy (1951) e Neighbours (1952) están nun grupo de filmes que non só competiron, senón que gañaron Oscars en categorías inadecuadas. Benjy, dirixida por Fred Zinnemann e narrada por Henry Fonda é un conto ficticio sobre un rapaz discapacitado. O filme foi empregado para conseguir fondos para o Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital. (...) Neighbours, de Norman McLaren, que hoxe competiría na categoría de curtametraxes de animación, empregaba "pixelación" – animación usando actores – para crear unha alegoría da guerra".[1]

Candidatos e gañadores

1940

  • 1941 – Churchill's Island – National Film Board of Canada
    • Adventure in the Bronx
    • Bomber
    • Christmas Under Fire
    • A Letter from Home
    • Life of a Thoroughbred
    • Norway in Revolt
    • A Place to Live
    • Russian Soil
    • Soldiers of the Sky
    • Warclouds in the Pacific
  • 1942 (15ª) – Nesta edición nomeáronse vinte e cinco filmes e entregáronse catro premios especiais, en recoñecemento ao esforzo dos aliados na Segunda Guerra Mundial:[2]
  • The Battle of Midway – United States Navy ("Premio especial para Battle of Midway polo valor histórico do seu éxito ao ofrecer unha gravación dunha das batallas decisivas do mundo – unha gravación única pola valentía dos que a fixeron baixo o fogo e polo magnífico retrato do valor das nosas forzas armadas na batalla".[2]
  • Kokoda Front Line! – Australian News & Information Bureau ("Premio especial para Kokoda Front Line! pola súa efectividade ao retratar de xeito simple mais con forza o escenario da guerra en Nova Guinea e pola súa presentación da valentía e fortaleza dos nosos compañeiros nas armas".[2]
  • Moscow Strikes Back – Artkino ("Premio especial para Moscow Strikes Back pola súa vivaz presentación do heroísmo do exército e do pobo rusos na defensa de Moscova, e polo seu éxito en facelo baixo condicións de extrema dificultade e perigo".[2]
  • Prelude to War – United States Army Special Services ("Premio especial para Prelude to War polo seu concepto agudo e auténtico e pola estimulante dramatización dos sucesos que levaron a nosa nación á guerra e dos ideais polos que loitamos".[2]
    • Africa, Prelude to Victory – The March of Time
    • Combat Report – United States Army Signal Corps
    • Conquer by the Clock – Frederic Ullman, Jr., produtor
    • The Grain That Built a HemisphereWalt Disney, produtor – Walt Disney Productions
    • Henry Browne, FarmerUnited States Department of Agriculture
    • High over the Borders – National Film Board of Canada
    • High Stakes in the East – The Netherlands Information Bureau
    • Inside Fighting China – National Film Board of Canada
    • It's Everybody's War – United States Office of War Information
    • Listen to Britain – British Ministry of Information
    • Little Belgium – Belgian Ministry of Information
    • Little Isles of Freedom – Victor Stoloff e Edgar Loew, produtores
    • Mr. Blabbermouth!—United States Office of War Information
    • Mr. Gardenia Jones—United States Office of War Information
    • The New SpiritWalt Disney, produtor – Walt Disney Productions
    • The Price of Victory – William H. Pine, produtor
    • A Ship Is Born – United States Merchant Marine
    • Twenty-One Miles—British Ministry of Information
    • We Refuse to Die – William C. Thomas, produtor
    • The White Eagle – Concanen Films
    • Winning Your Wings – United States Army Air Forces
  • 1943 (16ª) – December 7th – United States Navy
    • Children of Mars
    • Plan for Destruction
    • Swedes in America
    • To the People of the United States
    • Tomorrow We Fly
    • Youth in Crisis
  • 1944 (17ª) – With the Marines at Tarawa – United States Marine Corps
    • Hymn of the Nations
    • New Americans
  • 1945 (18ª) – Hitler Lives – Gordon Hollingshead, produtor
    • Library of Congress
    • To the Shores of Iwo Jima
  • 1946 (19ª) – Seeds of Destiny – United States Department of War
    • Atomic Power
    • Life at the Zoo
    • Paramount News Issue#37
    • Traffic with the Devil
  • 1947 (20ª) – First Steps – United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
    • Passport to Nowhere
    • School in the Mailbox
  • 1948 (21ª) – Toward Independence – United States Army
    • Heart to Heart
    • Operation Vittles
  • 1949 (22ª) – (empate):
    • A Chance To Live – Richard de Rochemont, produtor
    • So Much for So Little – Edward Selzer, produtor
    • 1848
    • The Rising Tide

1950

  • 1950 (23ª) – Why Korea? – Edmund Reek, produtor
    • The Fight: Science Against Cancer
    • The Stairs
  • 1951 (24ª) – Benjy – Dirixido por Fred Zinnemann coa cooperación de Paramount Pictures Corporation para Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
    • One Who Came Back
    • The Seeing Eye
  • 1952 (25ª) – NeighboursNorman McLaren, produtor – National Film Board of Canada
    • Devil Take Us
    • Epeira Diadema
    • Man Alive!
  • 1953 (26ª) – The Alaskan EskimoWalt Disney, produtor – Walt Disney Productions
    • The Living City
    • Operation Blue Jay
    • They Planted a Stone
    • The Word
  • 1954 (27ª) – Thursday's Children – World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
    • Jet Carrier
    • Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
  • 1955 (28ª) – Men against the ArcticWalt Disney, produtor – Walt Disney Productions
    • The Battle of Gettysburg
    • The Face of Lincoln
  • 1956 (29ª) – The True Story of the Civil War – Louis Clyde Stoumen, produtor
    • Man in Space
    • A City Decides
    • The Dark Wave
    • The House Without a Name
  • 1957 (30ª) – Non se entregou premio nesta categoría
  • 1958 (31ª) – Ama Girls – Ben Sharpsteen, produtor
    • Employees Only
    • Journey Into Spring
    • The Living Stone
    • Oeuverture
  • 1959 (32ª) – Glass – Bert Haanstra, produtor
    • Donald in Mathmagic Land
    • From Generation to Generation

1960

  • 1960 (33ª) – Giuseppina – James Hill, produtor
    • Beyond Silence
    • En by ved navn København
    • George Grosz' Interregnum
    • Universe
  • 1961 (34ª) – Project Hope – Frank P. Bibas, produtor
    • Breaking the Language Barrier
    • Cradle of Genius
    • Kahl
    • L'uomo in grigio
  • 1962 (35ª) – Dylan Thomas – Jack Howells, produtor
    • The John Glenn Story
    • The Road to the Wall
  • 1963 (36ª) – Chagall – Simon Schiffrin, produtor
    • The Five Cities of June
    • The Spirit of America
    • Thirty Million Letters
    • To Live Again
  • 1964 (37ª) – Nine from Little Rock – Charles Guggenheim, produtor
    • 140 Days Under the World
    • Breaking the Habit
    • Children Without
    • Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
  • 1965 (38ª) – To Be Alive! – Francis Thompson, produtor
    • Mural on Our Street
    • Nyitany
    • Point of View
    • Yeats Country
  • 1966 (39ª) – A Year Toward Tomorrow – Edmond A. Levy, produtor
    • Adolescence
    • Cowboy
    • The Odds Against
    • Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából
  • 1967 (40ª) – The Redwoods – Mark Harris e Trevor Greenwood, produtores
    • Monument to the Dream
    • A Place to Stand
    • See You at the Pillar
    • While I Run This Race
  • 1968 (41ª) – Why Man Creates – Saul Bass, produtor
    • The House That Ananda Built
    • The Revolving Door
    • A Space to Grow
    • A Way Out of the Wilderness
  • 1969 (42ª) – Czechoslovakia 1968 – Denis Sanders e Robert M. Fresco, produtores
    • An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
    • Jenny Is a Good Thing
    • Leo Beuerman
    • The Magic Machines

1970

  • 1970 (43ª) – Interviews with My Lai Veterans – Joseph Strick, produtor
    • The Gifts
    • A Long Way from Nowhere
    • Oisin
    • Time Is Running Out
  • 1971 (44ª) – Sentinels of Silence – Manuel Arango e Robert Amram, produtores
    • Adventures in Perception
    • Art Is...
    • The Numbers Start with the River
    • Somebody Waiting
  • 1972 (45ª) – This Tiny World – Charles Huguenot van der Linden e Martina Huguenot van der Linden, produtores
    • Hundertwassers Regentag
    • K-Z
    • Selling Out
    • The Tide of Traffic
  • 1973 (46ª) – Princeton: A Search for Answers – Julian Krainin e DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., produtores
    • Background
    • Christo's Valley Curtain
    • Four Stones for Kanemitsu
    • Paisti ag obair
  • 1974 (47ª) – Don't – Robin Lehman, produtor
    • City Out of Wilderness
    • Exploratorium
    • John Muir's High Sierra
    • Naked Yoga
  • 1975 (48ª) – The End of the Game – Claire Wilbur e Robin Lehman, produtores
    • Arthur and Lillie
    • Millions of Years Ahead of Man
    • Probes in Space
    • Whistling Smith
  • 1976 (49ª) – Number Our Days – Lynne Littman e Barbara Myerhoff, produtores
    • American Shoeshine
    • Blackwood
    • The End of the Road
    • Universe
  • 1977 (50ª) – Gravity Is My Enemy – John C. Joseph e Jan Stussy, produtores
    • Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
    • First Edition
    • Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
    • The Shetland Experience
  • 1978 (51ª) – The Flight of the Gossamer Condor – Jacqueline Phillips Shedd e Ben Shedd, produtores
    • The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
    • An Encounter with Faces
    • Goodnight Miss Ann
    • Squires of San Quentin
  • 1979 (52ª) – Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist – Saul J. Turell, produtor
    • Dae
    • Koryo Celadon
    • Nails
    • Remember Me

1980

  • 1980 (53ª) – Karl Hess: Toward Liberty – Roland Hallé e Peter W. Ladue, produtor
    • Don't Mess with Bill
    • The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
    • It's the Same World
    • Luther Metke at 94
  • 1981 (54ª) – Close Harmony – Nigel Noble, produtor
    • Americas in Transition
    • Journey for Survival
    • See What I Say
    • Urge to Build
  • 1982 (55ª) – If You Love This Planet – Edward Le Lorrain e Terre Nash, produtores – National Film Board of Canada
    • Gods of Metal
    • The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
    • To Live or Let Die
    • Traveling Hopefully
  • 1983 (56ª) – Flamenco at 5:15 – Cynthia Scott e Adam Symansky, produtores – National Film Board of Canada
    • Ihr zent frei
    • In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
    • Sewing Woman
    • Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
  • 1984 (57ª) – The Stone Carvers – Marjorie Hunt e Paul Wagner, produtores
    • The Children of Soong Ching Ling
    • Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
    • The Garden of Eden
    • Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
  • 1985 (58ª) – Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements – David Goodman, produtor
    • 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 (59ª) – Women – for America, for the World – Vivienne Verdon-Roe, produtor
    • Sam
    • Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
    • The Master of Disaster
    • Debonair Dancers
  • 1987 (60ª) – Young at Heart – Sue Marx e Pamela Conn, produtores
    • Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
    • In the Wee Wee Hours...
    • Language Says It All
    • Silver Into Gold
  • 1988 (61ª) – You Don't Have to Die – William Guttentag e Malcolm Clarke, produtores
    • Gang Cops
    • Family Gathering
    • The Children's Storefront
    • Portrait of Imogen
  • 1989 (62ª) – The Johnstown Flood – Charles Guggenheim, produtor
    • Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
    • Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

1990

  • 1990 (63ª) – Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo – Steven Okazaki, produtor
    • Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
    • Chimps: So Like Us
    • Burning Down Tomorrow
    • Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
  • 1991 (64ª) – Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment – Debra Chasnoff, produtor
    • A Little Vicious
    • The Mark of the Maker
    • Birdnesters of Thailand
    • Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
  • 1992 (65ª) – Educating Peter – Thomas C. Goodwin e 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 e Sally Bochner
  • 1993 (66ª) – Defending Our Lives – Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
    • Chicks in White Satin
    • Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
  • 1994 (67ª) – A Time for Justice – Charles Guggenheim
    • 89 mm od Europy
    • Blues Highway
    • School of the Americas Assassins
    • Straight from the Heart
  • 1995 (68ª) – 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 (69ª) – Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien – Jessica Yu directora, produtora, guionista e montadora
    • Cosmic Voyage
    • Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
    • The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
    • An Essay on Matisse
  • 1997 (70ª) – 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 (71ª) – 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 (72ª) – King Gimp – Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
    • Eyewitness
    • The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

2000

  • 2000 (73ª) – Big Mama – Tracy Seretean
    • Curtain Call
    • Dolphins
    • On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
    • The Man on Lincoln's Nose
  • 2001 (74ª) – Thoth – Sarah Kernochan e Lynn Appelle
    • Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
    • Sing!
  • 2002 (75ª) – Twin Towers – Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, directores
    • The Collector of Bedford Street – Welcome Change Productions – Alice Elliott, produtor e director
    • Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks – Tell the Truth Pictures – Robert Hudson, produtor – Robert Houston, director
    • Why Can't We Be a Family Again? – Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel directores
  • 2003 (76ª) – Chernobyl Heart – Maryann DeLeo
    • Asylum – Sandy McLeod e Gini Reticker
    • Ferry Tales – Katja Esson
  • 2004 (77ª) – Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Houston e Robert Hudson
    • Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
    • The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak e Andrzej Celinski
    • Hardwood – Hubert Davis e Erin Faith Young
    • Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby e Steve Kalafer
  • 2005 (78ª) – 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 (79ª) – The Blood of Yingzhou District
    • Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
    • Recycled Life
    • Rehearsing a Dream
  • 2007 (80ª) – Freeheld
    • La Corona
    • Salim Baba
    • Sari's Mother
  • 2008 (81ª) – Smile Pinki
    • The Conscience of Nhem En
    • The Final Inch
    • The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
  • 2009 (82ª) – 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

2010

  • 2010 (83ª) – Strangers No More – Karen Goodman e Kirk Simon
    • Killing in the Name – Jed Rothstein
    • Poster Girl – Sara Nesson
    • Sun Come Up – Jennifer Redfearn e Tim Metzger
    • The Warriors of Qiugang – Ruby Yang e Thomas Lennon
  • 2011 (84ª) – Saving Face – Daniel Junge e Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
    • The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday e Gail Dolgin
    • God Is the Bigger Elvis – Rebecca Cammisa e Julie Anderson
    • Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione
    • The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker e Kira Carstensen
  • 2012 (85ª) – Inocente – Sean Fine e Andrea Nix Fine
    • Kings Point – Sari Gilman e Jedd Wider
    • Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade e Robin Honan
    • Open Heart – Kief Davidson e Cori Shepherd Stern
    • Redemption – Jon Alpert e Matthew O'Neill
  • 2013 (86ª) – The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life – Malcolm Clarke e 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 Barens
  • 2014 (87ª) – Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent e Dana Perry
    • Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
    • Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński e Maciej Ślesicki
    • La Parka – Gabriel Serra Arguello
    • White Earth – J. Christian Jensen
  • 2015 (88ª) – A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
    • Body Team 12 – David Darg e Bryn Mooser
    • Chau, Beyond the Lines – Courtney Marsh e Jerry Franck
    • Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah – Adam Benzine
    • Last Day of Freedom – Dee Hibbert-Jones e Nomi Talisman
  • 2016 (89ª) – The White Helmets – Orlando von Einsiedel e Joanna Natasegara
    • 4.1 Miles – Daphne Matziaraki
    • Extremis – Dan Krauss
    • Joe's Violin – Kahane Cooperman e Raphaela Neihausen
    • Watani: My Homeland – Marcel Mettelsiefen e Stephen Ellis
  • 2017 (90ª) – Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – Frank Stiefel
    • Edith+Eddie – Laura Checkoway e Thomas Lee Wright
    • Heroin(e) – Elaine McMillion Sheldon e Kerrin Sheldon
    • Knife Skills – Thomas Lennon
    • Traffic Stop – Kate Davis e David Heilbroner
  • 2018 (91ª) – Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi e Melissa Berton
    • Black Sheep – Ed Perkins e Jonathan Chinn
    • End Game – Rob Epstein e Jeffrey Friedman
    • Lifeboat – Skye Fitzgerald e Bryn Mooser
    • A Night at the Garden – Marshall Curry
  • 2019 (92ª) – Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) – Carol Dysinger e Elena Andreicheva
    • In the Absence – Yi Seung-Jun e Gary Byung-Seok Kam
    • Life Overtakes Me – John Haptas e Kristine Samuelson
    • St. Louis Superman – Smriti Mundhra e Sami Khan
    • Walk Run Cha-Cha – Laura Nix e Colette Sandstedt

2020

  • 2020 (93ª) – Colette – Anthony Giacchino e Alice Doyard
    • A Concerto Is a Conversation – Ben Proudfoot e Kris Bowers
    • Do Not Split – Anders Hammer e Charlotte Cook
    • Hunger Ward – Skye Fitzgerald e Michael Scheuerman
    • A Love Song for Latasha – Sophia Nahali Allison e Janice Duncan
  • 2021 (94ª) – The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot

Notas

Véxase tamén