Academy Award untuk Film Pendek Dokumenter Terbaik

1940-an

1941 - Churchill's Island
- Adventure in the Bronx
- Bomber
- Christmas Under Fire
- A Letter from Home
- Life of a Thoroughbred
- Norway in Revolt
- Soldiers of the Sky
- War Clouds in the Pacific
1942 - tidak diberikan
1943 - December 7th
- Children of Mars
- Plan for Destruction
- Swedes in America
- To the People of the United States
- Tomorrow We Fly
- Youth in Crisis
1944 - With the Marines at Tarawa
- Hymn of the Nations
- New Americans
1945 - Hitler Lives - Gordon Hollingshead
- Library of Congress
- To the Shores of Iwo Jima
1946 - Seeds of Destiny
- Atomic Power
- Life at the Zoo
- Paramount News Issue#37
- Traffic with the Devil
1947 - First Steps
- Passport to Nowhere
- School in the Mailbox
1948 - Toward Independence - United States Army
- Heart to Heart
- Operation Vittles
1949 - (seri):
- A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont
- So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer
- 1848
- The Rising Tide

1950-an

1950 - Why Korea? - Edmund Reek
- The Fight: Science Against Cancer
- The Stairs
1951 - Benjy - Fred Zinnemann
- One Who Came Back
- The Seeing Eye
1952 - Neighbours - Norman McLaren
- Devil Take Us
- Epeira Diadema
- Man Alive!
1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney
- The Living City
- Operation Blue Jay
- They Planted a Stone
- The Word
1954 - Thursday's Children
- Jet Carrier
- Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney
- The Battle of Gettysburg
- The Face of Lincoln
1956 - The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen
- Man in Space
- A City Decides
- The Dark Wave
- The House Without a Name
1957 - tidak diberikan
1958 - Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen
- Employees Only
- Journey Into Spring
- The Living Stone
- Oeuverture
1959 - Glass - Bert Haanstra
- Donald in Mathmagic Land
- From Generation to Generation

1960-an

1960 - Giuseppina - James Hill
- Beyond Silence
- En by ved navn København
- George Grosz' Interregnum
- Universe
1961 - Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas
- Breaking the Language Barrier
- Cradle of Genius
- Kahl
- L'uomo in grigio
1962 - Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells
- The John Glenn Story
- The Road to the Wall
1963 - Chagall - Simon Schiffrin
- The Five Cities of June
- The Spirit of America
- Thirty Million Letters
- To Live Again
1964 - Nine from Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim
- 140 Days Under the World
- Breaking the Habit
- Children Without
- Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
1965 - To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson
- Mural on Our Street
- Nyitany
- Point of View
- Yeats Country
1966 - A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy
- Adolescence
- Cowboy
- The Odds Against
- Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából
1967 - The Redwoods - Mark Harris dan Trevor Greenwood
- Monument to the Dream
- A Place to Stand
- See You at the Pillar
- While I Run This Race
1968 - Why Man Creates - Saul Bass
- The House That Ananda Built
- The Revolving Door
- A Space to Grow
- A Way Out of the Wilderness
1969 - Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders dan Robert M. Fresco
- An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
- Jenny Is a Good Thing
- Leo Beuerman
- The Magic Machines

1970-an

1970 - Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick
- The Gifts
- A Long Way from Nowhere
- Oisin
- Time Is Running Out
1971 - Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango dan Robert Amram
- Adventures in Perception
- Art Is...
- The Numbers Start with the River
- Somebody Waiting
1972 - This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden dan Martina Huguenot van der Linden
- Hundertwassers Regentag
- K-Z
- Selling Out
- The Tide of Traffic
1973 - Princeton: A Search for Answers - Julian Krainin dan DeWitt L. Sage, Jr.
- Background
- Christo's Valley Curtain
- Four Stones for Kanemitsu
- Paisti ag obair
1974 - Don't - Robin Lehman
- City Out of Wilderness
- Exploratorium
- John Muir's High Sierra
- Naked Yoga
1975 - The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur dan Robin Lehman
- Arthur and Lillie
- Millions of Years Ahead of Man
- Probes in Space
- Whistling Smith
1976 - Number Our Days - Lynne Littman dan Barbara Myerhoff
- American Shoeshine
- Blackwood
- The End of the Road
- Universe
1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph dan Jan Stussy
- Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
- First Edition
- Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
- The Shetland Experience
1978 - The Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd dan Ben Shedd
- The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
- An Encounter with Faces
- Goodnight Miss Ann
- Squires of San Quentin
1979 - Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist - Saul J. Turell
- Dae
- Koryo Celadon
- Nails
- Remember Me

1980-an

1980 - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hallé dan Peter W. Ladue
- Don't Mess with Bill
- The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
- It's the Same World
- Luther Metke at 94
1981 - Close Harmony - Nigel Noble
- Americas in Transition
- Journey for Survival
- See What I Say
- Urge to Build
1982 - If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain dan Terri Nash
- Gods of Metal
- The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
- To Live or Let Die
- Traveling Hopefully
1983 - Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott dan Adam Symansky
- Ihr zent frei
- In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
- Sewing Woman
- Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
1984 - The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt dan Paul Wagner
- The Children of Soong Ching Ling
- Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
- The Garden of Eden
- Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
1985 - Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman
- The Courage to Care
- Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
- Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
- The Wizard of the Strings
1986 - Women--for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe
- Sam
- Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
- The Master of Disaster
- Debonair Dancers
1987 - Young at Heart - Sue Marx dan Pamela Conn
- Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
- In the Wee Wee Hours...
- Language Says It All
- Silver Into Gold
1988 - You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag dan Malcolm Clarke
- Gang Cops
- Family Gathering
- The Children's Storefront
- Portrait of Imogen
1989 - The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim
- Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
- Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

1990-an

1990 - Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki
- Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
- Chimps: So Like Us
- Burning Down Tomorrow
- Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
1991 - Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff
- A Little Vicious
- The Mark of the Maker
- Birdnesters of Thailand
- Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1992 - Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin dan Gerardine Wurzburg
- When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman
- At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai - Geoffrey O'Connor
- Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' - Wendy L. Weinberg
- The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein - Richard Elson dan Sally Bochner
1993 - Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
- Chicks in White Satin
- Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
1994 - A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
- 89 mm od Europy
- Blues Highway
- School of the Americas Assassins
- Straight from the Heart
1995 - One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
- Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls
- The Shadow of Hate
- The Living Sea
- Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
1996 - Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu
- Cosmic Voyage
- Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
- The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
- An Essay on Matisse
1997 - A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
- Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
- Amazon
- Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
- Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
1998 - The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years - Keiko Ibi
- A Place in the Land
- Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square - National Film Board of Canada
1999 - King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
- Eyewitness
- The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

2000-an

2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
- Curtain Call
- Dolphins
- On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
- The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2001 - Thoth - Sarah Kernochan dan Lynn Appelle
- Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
- Sing!
2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port
- The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Tell the Truth Pictures - Robert Hudson - Robert Houston
- Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel
2003 - Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
- Asylum - Sandy McLeod dan Gini Reticker
- Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
2004 - Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Hudson dan Bobby Houston
- Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
- The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak dan Andrzej Celinski
- Hardwood – Hubert Davis dan Erin Faith Young
- Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby dan Steve Kalafer
2005 - A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
- The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
- God Sleeps in Rwanda
- The Mushroom Club
2006 - The Blood of Yingzhou District
- Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
- Recycled Life
- Rehearsing a Dream
2007 - Freeheld
- La Corona
- Salim Baba
- Sari's Mother
2008 - Smile Pinki
- The Conscience of Nhem En
- The Final Inch
- The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

2010-an

2010 — Strangers No More - Karen Goodman dan Kirk Simon
- Killing in the Name - Jed Rothstein
- Poster Girl - Sara Nesson dan Mitchell Block
- Sun Come Up - Jennifer Redfearn dan Tim Metzger
- The Warriors of Qiugang - Ruby Yang dan Thomas Lennon
2011 — Saving Face - Daniel Junge dan Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement - Robin Fryday dan Gail Dolgin
- God Is the Bigger Elvis - Rebecca Cammisa dan Julie Anderson
- Incident in New Baghdad - James Spione
- The Tsunami dan the Cherry Blossom - Lucy Walker dan Kira Carstensen
2012 — Inocente - Sean Fine dan Andrea Nix Fine
- Kings Point - Sari Gilman dan Jedd Wider
- Mondays at Racine - Cynthia Wade dan Robin Honan
- Open Heart - Kief Davidson dan Cori Shepherd Stern
- Redemption - Jon Alpert dan Matthew O'Neill
2013 — The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke dan Nicholas Reed
- CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff
- Facing Fear - Jason Cohen
- Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq
- Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens
2014 — Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 - Ellen Goosenberg Kent dan Dana Perry
- Joanna - Aneta Kopacz
- Our Curse - Tomasz Śliwiński dan Maciej Ślesicki
- The Reaper (La Parka) - Gabriel Serra Arguello
- White Earth - J. Christian Jensen
2015 — A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- Body Team 12 - David Darg dan Bryn Mooser
- Chau, Beyond the Lines - Courtney Marsh dan Jerry Franck
- Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah - Adam Benzine
- Last Day of Freedom - Dee Hibbert-Jones dan Nomi Talisman
2016^[1] — The White Helmets - Orlando von Einsiedel dan Joanna Natasegara
- Extremis - Dan Krauss
- 4.1 Miles - Daphne Matziaraki
- Joe's Violin - Kahane Cooperman dan Raphaela Neihausen
- Watani: My Homeland - Marcel Mettelsiefen dan Stephen Ellis
2017^[2] — Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 - Frank Stiefel
- Edith+Eddie - Laura Checkoway dan Thomas Lee Wright
- Heroin(e) - Elaine McMillion Sheldon dan Kerrin Sheldon
- Knife Skills - Thomas Lennon
- Traffic Stop - Kate Davis dan David Heilbroner
2018 — Period. End of Sentence. - Rayka Zehtabchi dan Melissa Berton
- Black Sheep - Ed Perkins dan Jonathan Chinn
- End Game - Rob Epstein dan Jeffrey Friedman
- Lifeboat - Skye Fitzgerald dan Bryn Mooser
- A Night at the Garden - Marshall Curry
2019 — Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) - Carol Dysinger dan Elena Andreicheva
- In the Absence - Yi Seung-Jun dan Gary Byung-Seok Kam
- Life Overtakes Me - John Haptas dan Kristine Samuelson
- St. Louis Superman - Smriti Mundhra dan Sami Khan
- Walk Run Cha-Cha - Laura Nix dan Colette Sandstedt

2020-an

2020 — Colette - Anthony Giacchino dan Alice Doyard
- A Concerto Is a Conversation - Ben Proudfoot dan Kris Bowers
- Do Not Split - Anders Hammer dan Charlotte Cook
- Hunger Ward - Skye Fitzgerald dan Michael Scheuerman
- A Love Song for Latasha - Sophia Nahli Allison dan Janice Duncan

2021 — The Queen of Basketball - Ben Proudfoot
- Audible - Matthew Ogens dan Geoff McLean
- Lead Me Home - Pedro Kos dan Jon Shenk
- Three Songs for Benazir - Elizabeth Mirzaei dan Gulistan Mirzaei
- When We Were Bullies - Jay Rosenblatt

2022 — The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves dan Guneet Monga
- Haulout - Evgenia Arbugaeva dan Maxim Arbugaev
- How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt
- The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue dan Beth Levison
- Stranger at the Gate - Joshua Seftel dan Conall Jones

Academy Award untuk Film Pendek Dokumenter Terbaik

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Academy Award untuk Film Pendek Dokumenter Terbaik