Oscar Winners for Documentary and Short Films (from the beggenings to 2005)

Oscar Winners for Documentary and Short Films (from the beggenings to 2005)

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

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

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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