Documentary And Short Film Winners


A note on year notation: The Academy Awards are presented in February for the artistic achievements of the previous year. It is for this reason that all dates refer to the year in which the movie was released, not the year in which the award was presented.

Table Of Contents:


Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Animated Short Subject
Best Live-Action Short Subject

Best Documentary Feature

2004: Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids - Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
2003: The Fog of War - Errol Morris and Michael Williams
2002: Bowling For Columbine - Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
2001: Murder on a Sunday Morning - Jean-Xavier de Lestrade; Denis Poncet
2000: Into The Arms Of Strangers: Stories Of The Kindertransport - Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
1999: One Day In September - Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
1998: The Last Days - James Moll, Ken Lipper
1997: The Long Way Home - Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
1996: When We Were Kings - Leon Gast, David Sonenberg
1995: Anne Frank Remembered - Jon Blair
1994: Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision - Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
1993: I Am A Promise: The Children Of Stanton Elementary School - Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond
1992: The Panama Deception - Barbara Trent, David Kasper
1991: In The Shadow Of The Stars - Allie Light, Irving Saraf
1990: American Dream - Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn
1989: Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt - Robert Epstein, Bill Couturie
1988: Hotel Terminus: The Life And Times Of Klaus Barbie - Marcel Ophuls
1987: The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit And Legend Of The Algonquin Round Table - Aviva Slesin
1986: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got - Brigitte Berman Down And Out In America - Joseph Feury, Milton Justice
1985: Broken Rainbow - Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd
1984: The Times Of Harvey Milk - Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen
1983: He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' - Emile Ardolino
1982: Just Another Missing Kid - John Zaritsky
1981: Genocide - Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier
1980: From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern In China - Murray Lerner
1979: Best Boy - Ira Wohl
1978: Scared Straight! - Arnold Shapiro
1977: Who Are The Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? - John Korty, Dan Mccann, Warren L. Lockhart
1976: Harlan County, U.S.A. - Barbara Kopple
1975: The Man Who Skied Down Everest - F. R. Crawley, James Hager, Dale Hartleben
1974: Hearts And Minds - Peter Davis, Bert Schneider
1973: The Great American Cowboy - Kieth Merrill
1972: Marjoe - Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan
1971: The Hellstrom Chronicle - Walon Green
1970: Woodstock - Bob Maurice
1969: Arthur Rubinstein: The Love Of Life - Bernard Chevry
1968: Journey Into Self - Bill Mcgaw
1967: The Anderson Platoon - Pierre Schoendoerffer
1966: The War Game - Peter Watkins
1965: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story - Sidney Glazier
1964: Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1963: Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With The World - Robert Hughes
1962: Black Fox - Louis Clyde Stoumen
1961: Le Ciel Et La Boue (Sky Above And Mud Beneath) - Arthur Cohn, Rene Lafuite
1960: The Horse With The Flying Tail - Larry Lansburgh
1959: Serengeti Shall Not Die - Bernhard Grzimek
1958: White Wilderness - Ben Sharpsteen
1957: Albert Schweitzer - Jerome Hill
1956: The Silent World - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1955: Helen Keller In Her Story - Nancy Hamilton
1954: The Vanishing Prairie - Walt Disney
1953: The Living Desert - Walt Disney
1952: The Sea Around Us - Irwin Allen
1951: Kon-Tiki - Olle Nordemar
1950: The Titan: Story Of Michelangelo - Robert Snyder
1949: Daybreak In Udi - Crown Film Unit
1948: The Secret Land - Orville O. Dull
1947: Design For Death - Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard O. Fleischer
1946: No Award Given 
1945: The True Glory - The Governments Of Great Britain And The United States Of America
1944: The Fighting Lady - United States Navy
1943: Desert Victory - British Ministry Of Information

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Documentary Short

2004: Mighty Times: The Children's March - Robert Hudson, Robert Houston
2003: Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
2002: Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
2001: Thoth - Sarah Kernochan, Lynn Appelle
2000: Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
1999: King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
1998: The Personals: Improvisations On Romance In The Golden Years - Keiko Ibi
1997: A Story Of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
1996: Breathing Lessons: The Life And Work Of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu
1995: One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
1994: A Time For Justice - Charles Guggenheim
1993: Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
1992: Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg
1991: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons And Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff
1990: Days Of Waiting - Steven Okazaki
1989: The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim
1988: You Don't Have To Die - William Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke
1987: Young At Heart - Sue Marx, Pamela Conn
1986: Women--For America, For The World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe
1985: Witness To War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman
1984: The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner
1983: Flamenco At 5:15 - Cynthia Scott, Adam Symansky
1982: If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain, Terri Nash
1981: Close Harmony - Nigel Noble
1980: Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hall, Peter W. Ladue
1979: Paul Robeson: Tribute To An Artist - Saul J. Turell
1978: The Flight Of The Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, Ben Shedd
1977: Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph, Jan Stussy
1976: Number Our Days - Lynne Littman
1975: The End Of The Game - Claire Wilbur, Robin Lehman
1974: Don't - Robin Lehman
1973: Princeton: A Search For Answers - Julian Krainin, Dewitt L. Sage, Jr.
1972: This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot Van Der Linden, Martina Huguenot Van Der Linden
1971: Sentinels Of Silence - Manuel Arango, Robert Amram
1970: Interviews With My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick
1969: Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders, Robert M. Fresco
1968: Why Man Creates - Saul Bass
1967: The Redwoods - Mark Harris, Trevor Greenwood
1966: A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy
1965: To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson
1964: Nine From Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim
1963: Chagall - Simon Schiffrin
1962: Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells
1961: Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas
1960: Giuseppina - James Hill
1959: Glass - Bert Haanstra
1958: Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen
1957: No Winner In This Category
1956: The True Story Of The Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen
1955: Men Against The Arctic - Walt Disney
1954: Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures, Morse Films
1953: The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney
1952: Neighbours - Norman Mclaren
1951: Benjy - Fred Zinnemann
1950: Why Korea? - Edmund Reek
1949: A Chance To Live - Richard De Rochemont
So Much For So Little - Edward Selzer
1948: Toward Independence - United States Army
1947: First Steps - United Nations Division Of Films And Visual Information
1946: Seeds Of Destiny - United States Department Of War
1945: Hitler Lives? - Gordon Hollingshead
1944: With The Marines At Tarawa - United States Marine Corps
1943: December 7th - United States Navy
1942: The Battle Of Midway - United States Navy
Kokoda Front Line! - Australian News & Information Bureau
Moscow Strikes Back - Artkino
Prelude To War - United States Army Special Services
1941: Churchill's Island - National Film Board Of Canada

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Animated Short Subject

2004: "Ryan" - Chris Landreth
2003: "Harvie Krumpet" - Adam Elliot
2002: "The ChubbChubbs!" - Eric Armstrong
2001: "For The Birds" - Ralph Eggleston
2000: "Father And Daughter" - Michael Dudok De Wit
1999: "The Old Man And The Sea" - Alexander Petrov
1998: "Bunny" - Chris Wedge
1997: "Geri's Game" - Jan Pinkava
1996: "Quest" - Tyron Montgomery, Thomas Stellmach
1995: "A Close Shave" - Nick Park
1994: "Bob's Birthday" - Alison Snowden, David Fine
1993: "The Wrong Trousers" - Nick Park
1992: "Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase" - Joan C. Gratz
1991: "Manipulation" - Daniel Greaves
1990: "Creature Comforts" - Nick Park
1989: "Balance" - Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
1988: "Tin Toy" - John Lasseter, William Reeves
1987: "The Man Who Planted Trees" - Fr?D?Ric Back
1986: "A Greek Tragedy" - Linda Van Tulden, Willem Thijssen
1985: "Anna & Bella" - Cilia Van Dijk
1984: "Charade" - Jon Minnis
1983: "Sundae In New York" - Jimmy Picker
1982: "Tango" - Zbigniew Rybczynski
1981: "Crac" - Fr?D?Ric Back
1980: "The Fly" - Ferenc Rofusz
1979: "Every Child" - Derek Lamb
1978: "Special Delivery" - Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon
1977: "The Sand Castle" - Co Hoedeman
1976: "Leisure" - Suzanne Baker
1975: "Great" - Bob Godfrey
1974: "Closed Mondays" - Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner
1973: "Frank Film" - Frank Mouris
1972: "A Christmas Carol" - Richard Williams
1971: "The Crunch Bird" - Ted Petok
1970: "Is It Always Right To Be Right?" - Nick Bosustow
1969: "It's Tough To Be A Bird" - Ward Kimball
1968: "Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day" - Walt Disney
1967: "The Box" - Fred Wolf
1966: "Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass Double Feature" - John Hubley, Faith Hubley
1965: "The Dot And The Line" - Chuck Jones, Les Goldman
1964: "The Pink Phink" - David H. Depatie, Friz Freleng
1963: "The Critic" - Ernest Pintoff
1962: "The Hole" - John Hubley, Faith Hubley
1961: "Ersatz (The Substitute)" - Zagreb Film
1960: "Munro" - William L. Snyder
1959: "Moonbird" - John Hubley
1958: "Knighty Knight Bugs" - John W. Burton
1957: "Birds Anonymous" - Edward Selzer
1956: "Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper" - Stephen Bosustow
1955: "Speedy Gonzales" - Edward Selzer
1954: "When Magoo Flew" - Stephen Bosustow
1953: "Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom" - Walt Disney
1952: "Johann Mouse" - Fred Quimby
1951: "Two Mouseketeers" - Fred Quimby
1950: "Gerald Mcboing-Boing" - Stephen Bosustow
1949: "For Scent-Imental Reasons" - Edward Selzer
1948: "The Little Orphan" - Fred Quimby
1947: "Tweetie Pie" - Edward Selzer
1946: "The Cat Concerto" - Frederick Quimby
1945: "Quiet Please!" - Frederick Quimby
1944: "Mouse Trouble" - Frederick C. Quimby
1943: "Yankee Doodle Mouse" - Frederick Quimby
1942: "Der Fuehrer's Face" - Walt Disney
1941: "Lend A Paw" - Walt Disney
1940: "The Milky Way" - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1939: "The Ugly Duckling" - Walt Disney
1938: "Ferdinand The Bull" - Walt Disney
1937: "The Old Mill" - Walt Disney
1936: "The Country Cousin" - Walt Disney
1935: "Three Orphan Kittens" - Walt Disney
1934: "The Tortoise And The Hare" - Walt Disney
1933: "The Three Little Pigs" - Walt Disney
1932: "Flowers And Trees" - Walt Disney

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Live Action Short Subject

2004: Andrea Arnold - "Wasp"
2003: Aaron Schneider and Andrew J. Sacks - "Two Soldiers"
2002: Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen - "This Charming Man (Der Er En Yndig Mand)"
2001: Ray McKinnon, Lisa Blount - "The Accountant"
2000: Florian Gallenberger - "Quiero Ser (I Want To Be...)"
1999: Barbara Schock, Tamara Tiehel - "My Mother Dreams The Satan's Disciples In New York"
1998: Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen - "Election Night (Valgaften)"
1997: Chris Tashima, Chris Donahue - "Visas And Virtue"
1996: David Frankel, Barry Jossen - "Dear Diary"
1995: Christine Lahti, Jana Sue Memel - "Lieberman In Love"
1994: Peter Capaldi, Ruth Kenley-Letts - "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life"
Peggy Rajski, Randy Stone - "Trevor"
1993: Pepe Danquart - "Black Rider (Schwarzfahrer)"
1992: Sam Karmann - "Omnibus"
1991: Seth Winston, Rob Fried - "Session Man"
1990: Adam Davidson - "The Lunch Date"
1989: James Hendrie - "Work Experience"
1988: Dean Parisot, Steven Wright - "The Appointments Of Dennis Jennings"
1987: Jonathan Sanger, Jana Sue Memel - "Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall"
1986: Chuck Workman - "Precious Images"
1985: Jeff Brown, Chris Pelzer - "Molly's Pilgrim"
1984: Mike Hoover - "Up"
1983: Janice L. Platt - "Boys And Girls"
1982: Christine Oestreicher - "A Shocking Accident"
1981: Paul Kemp, Shelley Levinson - "Violet"
1980: Lloyd Phillips - "The Dollar Bottom"
1979: Sarah Pillsbury, Ron Ellis - "Board And Care"
1978: Taylor Hackford - "Teenage Father -"
1977: Beverly Shaffer, Yuki Yoshida - "I'll Find A Way"
1976: Andre Guttfreund, Peter Werner - "In The Region Of Ice"
1975: Bert Salzman - "Angel And Big Joe"
1974: Paul Claudon, Edmond Sechan - "One-Eyed Men Are Kings"
1973: Allan Miller, William Fertik - "The Bolero"
1972: Richard Barclay - "Norman Rockwell's World...An American Dream"
1971: Manuel Arango, Robert Amram - "Sentinels Of Silence"
1970: John Longenecker - "The Resurrection Of Broncho Billy"
1969: Joan Keller Stern - "The Magic Machines"
1968: Charles Guggenheim - "Robert Kennedy Remembered"
1967: Christopher Chapman - "A Place To Stand"
1966: Edgar Anstey - "Wild Wings"
1965: Claude Berri - "The Chicken (Le Poulet)"
1964: Edward Schreiber - "Casals Conducts: 1964:"
1963: Paul De Roubaix, Marcel Ichac - "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge"
1962: Pierre Etaix, J.C. Carri?Re - "Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)"
1961: Lester A. Schoenfeld Films - "Seawards The Great Ships"
1960: Ezra R. Baker - "Day Of The Painter"
1959: Jacques-Yves Cousteau - "The Golden Fish"
1958: Walt Disney - "Grand Canyon"
1957: Larry Lansburgh - "The Wetback Hound"
1956: (One-Reel) Konstantin Kalser - "Crashing The Water Barrier"
(Two-Reel) Romulus Films - "The Bespoke Overcoat"
1955: (One-Reel) Edmund Reek - "Survival City"
(Two-Reel) Wilbur T. Blume - "The Face Of Lincoln"
1954: (One-Reel) Robert Youngson - "This Mechanical Age"
(Two-Reel)Denis Sanders, Terry Sanders - "A Time Out Of War"
1953: (One-Reel) Johnny Green - "The Merry Wives Of Windsor Overture"
(Two-Reel) Walt Disney - "Bear Country"
1952: (One-Reel) Boris Vermont - "Light In The Window:The Art Of Vermeer"
(Two-Reel) Walt Disney - "Water Birds"
1951: (One-Reel) Robert Youngson - "World Of Kids"
(Two-Reel) Walt Disney - "Nature's Half Acre"
1950: (One-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - "Grandad Of Races"
(Two-Reel) Walt Disney - "In Beaver Valley"
(One-Reel) Jack Eaton - "Aquatic House-Party"
(Two-Reel) Gaston Diehl, Robert Haessens - "Van Gogh"
1948: (One-Reel) Edmund H. Reek - "Symphony Of A City"
(Two-Reel) Walt Disney - "Seal Island"
1947: (One-Reel) Herbert Moulton - "Good-Bye Miss Turlock"
(Two-Reel) Irving Allen - "Climbing The Matterhorn"
1946: (One-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - "Facing Your Danger"
(Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - "A Boy And His Dog"
1945: (One-Reel) Herbert Moulton, Jerry Bresler - "Stairway To Light"
(Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - "Star In The Night"
1944: (One-Reel) Jerry Fairbanks - "Who's Who In Animal Land"
(Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead - "I Won't Play"
1943: (One-Reel) Grantland Rice - "Amphibious Fighters"
(Two-Reel) Jerry Bresler, Sam Coslow - "Heavenly Music"
1942: (One-Reel) Paramount - "Speaking Of Animals And Their Families"
(Two-Reel) Warner Bros. - "Beyond The Line Of Duty"
1941: (One-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - "Of Pups And Puzzles"
(Two-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - "Main Street On The March!"
1940: (One-Reel) Pete Smith - "Quicker `N A Wink"
(Two-Reel) Warner Bros - "Teddy, The Rough Rider"
1939: (One-Reel) Paramount - "Busy Little Bears"
(Two-Reel) Warner Bros -Sons Of Liberty"
1938: (One-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - "That Mothers Might Live"
(Two-Reel) Warner Bros - "Declaration Of Independence"
1937: (Color) Pete Smith - "Penny Wisdom"
(One-Reel) Skibo Productions - "The Private Life Of The Gannets"
(Two-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - "Torture Money"
1936: (Color) Warner Bros. - "Give Me Liberty"
(One-Reel) Hal Roach - "Bored Of Education"
(Two-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - "The Public Pays"
1935: (Comedy) Jack Chertok - "How To Sleep"
(Novelty) Gaumont British And Skibo Productions - "Wings Over Mt. Everest"
1934: (Comedy) Kenneth Macgowan - "La Cucaracha"
(Novelty) Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard - "City Of Wax"
1933:(Comedy) Louis Brock - "So This Is Harris"
(Novelty) Joe Rock - "Krakatoa"
1932: (Comedy) Hal Roach - "The Music Box"
(Novelty) Mack Sennett - "Wrestling Swordfish"

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