Oscar de melhor documentário de curta-metragem

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;^[1] é um prêmio anual que começou a ser concedido em 1942 pela Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas dos Estados Unidos,^[2] a uma produção de curta duração (menos de 40 minutos) que retrata a realidade,^[1] produzido no ano anterior ao da realização da cerimônia.

Lista incompleta de filmes indicados e vencedores do prêmio Oscar de melhor documentário de curta-metragem:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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^[2]

• Oscar de melhor documentário

Referências

• (em inglês)
• «Site oficial da Academia» 
• «Site oficial das cerimónias» 
• «Base de dados oficial dos prêmios» 
• «Lista completa dos indicados/nomeados e vencedores» 
• «IMDB». Site do Internet Movie Database 
• «Histórico de premiações». Filmsite