Documentary (Short Subject) — Every Winner and Nominee

Every film recognised in the Oscars Documentary (Short Subject) category in CineRoll's records: 365 films across 79 years, 79 of them winners.

The most recent winner is The Queen of Basketball (2022); the earliest on record is Churchill's Island (1942).

The last three winners were The Queen of Basketball (2022), Colette (2021) and Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2020).

The list is newest first. Each year shows the winner at the top, then the other nominees; a year with enough nominees links to its own page.

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  • Benjy (1951) poster, Documentary (Short Subject) winner
    Benjy(1951)

    Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital

    Winner
  • One Who Came Back (1952) poster, Documentary (Short Subject) nominee
    One Who Came Back(1952)

    Owen Crump, Producer. (Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers)

  • The Seeing Eye (1951) poster, Documentary (Short Subject) nominee
    The Seeing Eye(1951)

    Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

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