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Oscars: Documentary (Short Subject)

Winners and nominees by ceremony year, newest first.

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  1. 2026
    All the Empty Rooms
    All the Empty Rooms (2025)
    GoodWatch score 84
    WonAll the Empty Rooms2025

    Nominated: Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, The Devil Is Busy, perfectly a strangeness, Children No More: Were and Are Gone

  2. 2025
    The Only Girl in the Orchestra
    The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2023)
    GoodWatch score 71
    WonThe Only Girl in the Orchestra2023

    Nominated: Death by Numbers, I Am Ready, Warden, Incident, Instruments of a Beating Heart

  3. 2024
    The Last Repair Shop
    The Last Repair Shop (2024)
    GoodWatch score 75
    WonThe Last Repair Shop2024

    Nominated: The Barber of Little Rock, Island in Between, The ABCs of Book Banning

  4. 2023
    The Elephant Whisperers
    The Elephant Whisperers (2022)
    GoodWatch score 89
    WonThe Elephant Whisperers2022

    Nominated: Haulout, The Martha Mitchell Effect, Stranger at the Gate

  5. 2022
    The Queen of Basketball
    The Queen of Basketball (2021)
    GoodWatch score 71
    WonThe Queen of Basketball2021

    Nominated: Three Songs for Benazir, Audible, Lead Me Home, When We Were Bullies

  6. 2021
    Colette
    Colette (2020)
    GoodWatch score 71
    WonColette2020

    Nominated: A Concerto Is a Conversation, A Love Song for Latasha, Hunger Ward, Do Not Split

  7. 2017
    The White Helmets
    The White Helmets (2016)
    GoodWatch score 84
    WonThe White Helmets2016
    WonHeaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 4052016

    Nominated: Extremis, 4.1 Miles

  8. 2016
    A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
    A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015)
    GoodWatch score 81
    WonA Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness2015

    Nominated: Body Team 12, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, Chau, Beyond the Lines, Last Day of Freedom

  9. 2014
    Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
    Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (2013)
    GoodWatch score 73
    WonCrisis Hotline: Veterans Press 12013

    Nominated: Redemption, Joanna, Facing Fear

  10. 2006
    A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
    A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005)
    GoodWatch score 67
    WonA Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin2005

    Nominated: God Sleeps in Rwanda, The Children of Leningradsky

  11. 1956
    Men Against the Arctic
    Men Against the Arctic (1955)
    GoodWatch score 61
    WonMen Against the Arctic1955

    Nominated: The Battle of Gettysburg, Man in Space

  12. 1944
    December 7th
    December 7th (1943)
    GoodWatch score 58
    WonDecember 7th1943

    Nominated: Swedes in America, Plan for Destruction