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Submissions for Best Documentary Short Academy Award

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Finalists for Best Documentary (Short Subject) are selected by the Documentary Branch based on a preliminary ballot. A second preferential ballot determines the five nominees.[1] These are the additional films that were shortlisted.

List of shortlisted films

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Year Finalists
2007 Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, If It Happens, Ochberg's Orphans, Portraits of a Lady[2]
2008 David McCullough: Painting With Words, Downstream, Tongzhi in Love, Viva La Causa [3]
2009 Lt. Watada, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Woman Rebel[4][5]
2010 Born Sweet, Living for 32, One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey[6]
2011 In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution, Pipe Dreams, Witness[7]
2012 The Education of Mohammad Hussein, ParaÍso, The Perfect Fit[8]
2013 Jujitsu-ing Reality, Recollections, SLOMO[9]
2014 Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, The Lion's Mouth Opens, One Child[10]
2015 50 Feet from Syria, Minerita, My Enemy, My Brother, Starting Point, The Testimony[11]
2016 Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off), Close Ties, Frame 394, The Mute's House, The Other Side of Home[12]
2017 Alone, Kayayo – The Living Shopping Baskets, ’116 Cameras, Ram Dass, Going Home, Ten Meter Tower[13]
2018 Los Comandos, My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes, ’63 Boycott, Women of the Gulag, Zion[14]
2019 After Maria, Ghosts of Sugar Land, Fire in Paradise, The Nightcrawlers, Stay Close[15]
2020 Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa; Call Center Blues; Hysterical Girl; The Speed Cubers; What Would Sophia Loren Do?[16]
2021 Águilas, A Broken House, Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis, Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker, Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol, The Facility, Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day, Sophie & the Baron, Takeover, Terror Contagion[17]
2022 American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton, Anastasia, Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison, As Far as They Can Run, The Flagmakers, Happiness Is £4 Million, Holding Moses, Nuisance Bear, Shut Up and Paint, 38 at the Garden[18]
2023 Bear, Between Earth & Sky, Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games, Camp Courage, Deciding Vote, How We Get Free, If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis, Last Song from Kabul, Oasis, Wings of Dust[19]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 93aa_rules.pdf Archived May 2, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "8 Doc Shorts Shortlisted For 2009 Oscars®" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. October 11, 2007. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  3. ^ Mike Goodridge (9 October 2008). "Eight films shortlisted for documentary short subject Oscar". Screen Daily.
  4. ^ Deol’s Film On Oscar Shortlist | News | The Harvard Crimson
  5. ^ Tamara Krinsky (October 10, 2009). "8 Doc Shorts Shortlisted For 2009 Oscars®". International Documentary Association.
  6. ^ 8 Documentary Short Subject Contenders For The 83rd Academy Awards® - We Are Movie Geeks
  7. ^ Michelle Hannett (October 13, 2011). "8 Doc Shorts on Oscar's 2011 Shortlist". We Are Movie Geeks.
  8. ^ "Oscars Pick 8 Documentary Shorts for 2012 Shortlist". The Hollywood Reporter. October 11, 2012.
  9. ^ "8 Doc Shorts On Oscar's 2013 Shortlist". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. October 10, 2013.
  10. ^ "8 Doc Shorts On Oscar's 2014 Shortlist". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. October 20, 2014.
  11. ^ "10 DOC SHORTS ON OSCAR'S 2015 SHORTLIST". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. October 26, 2015.
  12. ^ "10 DOC SHORTS ON OSCAR'S 2016 SHORTLIST". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. October 26, 2016.
  13. ^ "10 DOCUMENTARY SHORTS ON 2017 OSCARS SHORTLIST". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. December 5, 2017.
  14. ^ "91st Oscar Shortlists". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  15. ^ "92nd Oscar Shortlists". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  16. ^ "93rd Oscars Shortlists". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  17. ^ Oscar Shortlists 2022: Documentary, International, Shorts... - Deadline
  18. ^ "95th Oscars Shortlists Announced for 10 Categories". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  19. ^ "96th Oscars Shortlists Announced for 10 Categories". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 21 December 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.