Best Documentary Short

Colette, winner 2020.

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Short is the Academy Award for the best nonfiction motion pitcture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be photograhed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.

Nominees and winners

1940s

14th Academy Awards (1941)

Winner

Churchill's Island — National Film Board of Canada

Nominees

Adventure in the Bronx — Film Associates

Bomber — United States Office for Emergency Management Film Unit

Christmas Under Fire — British Ministry of Information

Letter from Home — British Ministry of Information

Life of a Thoroughbred — Truman Talley

Norway in Revolt — The March of Time

A Place to Live — Philadelphia Housing Association

Russian Soil — Amkino

Soldiers of the Sky — Truman Talley

War Clouds in the Pacific — National Film Board of Canada

16th Academy Awards (1943)

Winner

December 7th — United States Navy

Nominees

Children of Mars — RKO Radio

Plan for Destruction — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Swedes in America — United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau

To the People of the United States — Walter Wanger

Tomorrow We Fly — United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics

Youth in Crisis — The March of Time

17th Academy Awards (1944)

Winner

With the Marines at Tarawa — United States Marine Corps

Nominees

Arturo Toscanini — United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau

New Americans — RKO Radio

18th Academy Awards (1945)

Winner

Hitler Lives? — Gordon Hollingshead

Nominees

Library of Congress — United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau

To the Shores of Iwo Jima — United States Marine Corps

19th Academy Awards (1946)

Winner

Seeds of Destiny — United States Department of War

Nominees

Atomic Power — The March of Time

Life at the Zoo — Artkino

Paramount News Issue #37 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue! 1927.....1947) — Paramount

Traffic with the Devil — Herbert Morgan

20th Academy Awards (1947)

Winner

First Steps — United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information

Nominees

Passport to Nowhere — Frederic Ullman, Jr.

School in the Mailbox — Australian News & Information Bureau

21st Academy Awards (1948)

Winner

Toward Independence — United States Army

Nominees

Heart to Heart — Herbert Morgan

Operation Vittles — United States Army Air Force

22nd Academy Awards (1949)

Winner

Tie: A Chance to Live — Richard de Rochemont

So Much for So Little — Edward Selzer

Nominees

1848 — French Cinema General Cooperative

The Rising Tide — St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

1950s

23rd Academy Awards (1950)

Winner

Why Korea? — Edmund Reek

Nominees

The Fight: Science against Cancer — Guy Glover

The Stairs — Film Documents, Inc.

24th Academy Awards (1951)

Winner

Benjy — Fred Zinnemann (with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital)

Nominees

One Who Came Back — Owen Crump (Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers)

25th Academy Awards (1952)

Winner

Neighbours — Norman McLaren

Nominees

Devil Take Us — Herbert Morgan

The Garden Spider (Epeira Diadema) — Alberto Ancilotto

Man Alive! — Stephen Bosustow

26th Academy Awards (1953)

Winner

The Alaskan Eskimo — Walt Disney

Nominees

The Living City — John Barnes

Operation Blue Jay — United States Army Signal Corps

They Planted a Stone — James Carr

The Word — John Healy, John Adams

27th Academy Awards (1954)

Winner

Thursday's Children — World Wide Pictures, Morse Films

Nominees

Jet Carrier — Otto Lang

Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait — Morrie Roizman

28th Academy Awards (1955)

Winner

Men against the Arctic — Walt Disney

Nominees

The Battle of Gettysburg — Dore Schary

The Face of Lincoln — Wilbur T. Blume

29th Academy Awards (1956)

Winner

The True Story of the Civil War — Louis Clyde Stouman

Nominees

A City Decides — Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.

The Dark Wave — John Healy

The House without a Name — Valentine Davies

Man in Space — Ward Kimball

31st Academy Awards (1958)

Winner

Ama Girls — Ben Sharpsteen

Nominees

Employees Only — Kenneth G. Brown

Journey into Spring — Ian Ferguson

The Living Stone — Tom Daly

Overture — Thorold Dickinson

32nd Academy Awards (1959)

Winner

Glass — Bert Haanstra

Nominees

Donald in Mathmagic Land — Walt Disney

From Generation to Generation — Edward F. Cullen

1960s

33rd Academy Awards (1960)

Winner

Giuseppina — James Hill

Nominees

Beyond Silence — United States Information Agency

A City Called Copenhagen — Statens Filmcentral, The Danish Government Film Office

George Grosz' Interregnum — Charles Carey, Altina Carey

Universe — Colin Low

34th Academy Awards (1961)

Winner

Project Hope — Frank P. Bibas

Nominees

Breaking the Language Barrier) — United States Air Force

Cradle of Genius — Jim O'Connor, Tom Hayes

Kahl — Dido-Film-GmbH

L'Uomo in Grigio (The Man in Gray) — Benedetto Benedetti

35th Academy Awards (1962)

Winner

Dylan Thomas — Jack Howells

Nominees

The John Glenn Story — William L. Hendricks

The Road to the Wall — Robert Saudek

36th Academy Awards (1963)

Winner

Chagall — Simon Schiffrin

Nominees

The Five Cities of June — George Stevens, Jr.

The Spirit of America — Algernon G. Walker

Thirty Million Letters — Edgar Anstey

To Live Again — Mel London

37th Academy Awards (1964)

Winner

Nine from Little Rock — Charles Guggenheim

Nominees

Breaking the Habit — Henry Jacobs, John Korty

Children Without — Charles Guggenheim

Kenojuak — National Film Board of Canada

140 Days Under the World — Geoffrey Scott, Oxley Hughan

38th Academy Awards (1965)

Winner

To Be Alive! — Francis Thompson

Nominees

Mural on Our Street — Kirk Smallman

Ouverture — Mafilm Productions

Point of View — Vision Associates Productions

Yeats Country — Patrick Carey, Joe Mendoza

39th Academy Awards (1966)

Winner

A Year Toward Tomorrow — Edmond A. Levy

Nominees

Adolescence — Marin Karmitz, Vladimir Forgency

Cowboy — Michael Ahnemann, Gary Schlosser

The Odds Against — Lee R. Bobker, Helen Kristt Radin

Saint Matthew Passion — Mafilm Studio

40th Academy Awards (1967)

Winner

The Redwoods — Mark Harris, Trevor Greenwood

Nominees

Monument to the Dream — Charles E. Guggenheim

A Place to Stand — Christopher Chapman

See You at the Pillar — Robert Fitchett

While I Run This Race — Carl V. Ragsdale

41st Academy Awards (1968)

Winner

Why Man Creates — Saul Bass

Nominees

The House That Ananda Built — Fali Bilimoria

The Revolving Door — Lee R. Bobker

A Space to Grow — Thomas P. Kelly, Jr.

A Way Out of the Wilderness — Dan E. Weisburd

42nd Academy Awards (1969)

Winner

Czechoslovakia 1968 — Denis Sanders, Robert M. Fresco

Nominees

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer — Donald Wrye

Jenny Is a Good Thing — Joan Horvath

Leo Beuerman — Arthur H. Wolf, Russell A. Mosser

The Magic Machines — Joan Keller Stern

1970s

43rd Academy Awards (1970)

Winner

Interviews with My Lai Veterans — Joseph Strick

Nominees

The Gifts — Robert McBride

A Long Way from Nowhere — Bob Aller

Oisin — Vivien Carey, Patrick Carey

Time is Running Out — Horst Dallmayr, Robert Menegoz

44th Academy Awards (1971)

Winner

Sentinels of Silence — Manuel Arango, Robert Amram

Nominees

Adventures in Perception — Han van Gelder

Art Is... — Julian Krainin, DeWitt L. Sage, Jr.

The Numbers Start with the River — Donald Wrye

Somebody Waiting — Hal Riney, Dick Snider, Sherwood Omens

45th Academy Awards (1972)

Winner

This Tiny World — Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Martina Huguenot van der Linden

Nominees

Hundertwasser's Rainy Day — Peter Schamoni

K-Z — Giorgio Treves

Selling Out — Tadeusz Jaworski

The Tide of Traffic — Humphrey Swingler

46th Academy Awards (1973)

Winner

Princeton: A Search for Answers — Julian Krainin, DeWitt L. Sage, Jr.

Nominees

Background — Carmen D'Avino

Children at Work (Paisti Ag Obair) — Louis Marcus

Christo's Valley Curtain — Albert Maysles, David Maysles

Four Stones for Kanemitsu — Terry Sanders, June Wayne

47th Academy Awards (1974)

Winner

Don't — Robin Lehman

Nominees

City Out of Wilderness — Francis Thompson

Exploratorium — Jon Boorstin

John Muir's High Sierra — Dewitt Jones, Lesley Foster

Naked Yoga — Ronald S. Kass, Mervyn Lloyd

48th Academy Awards (1975)

Winner

The End of the Game — Claire Wilbur, Robin Lehman

Nominees

Arthur and Lillie — Jon Else, Steven Kovacs, Kristine Samuelson

Millions of Years Ahead of Man — Manfred Baier

Probes in Space — George V. Casey

Whistling Smith — Barrie Howells and Michael Scott

49th Academy Awards (1976)

Winner

Number Our Days — Lynne Littman

Nominees

American Shoeshine — Sparky Greene

Blackwood — Tony Ianzelo, Andy Thomson

The End of the Road — John Armstrong

Universe — Lester Novros

50th Academy Awards (1977)

Winner

Gravity is My Enemy — John Joseph, Jan Stussy

Nominees

Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country — Moctesuma Esparza

First Edition — Helen Whitney, DeWitt L. Sage, Jr.

Of Time, Tombs and Treasure — James R. Messenger, Paul N. Raimondi

The Shetland Experience — Douglas Gordon

51st Academy Awards (1978)

Winner

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor — Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, Ben Shedd

Nominees

The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey — Jerry Aronson

An Encounter with Faces — K.K. Kapil

Goodnight Miss Ann — August Cinquegrana

Squires of San Quentin — J. Gary Mitchell

52nd Academy Awards (1979)

Winner

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist — Saul J. Turell

Nominees

Dae — Risto Teofilovski

Koryo Celadon — Donald A. Connolly, James R. Messenger

Nails — Phillip Borsos

Remember Me — Dick Young

1980s

53rd Academy Awards (1980)

Winner

Karl Hess: Toward Liberty — Roland Hallé, Peter W. Ladue

Nominees

Don't Mess with Bill — John Watson, Pen Densham

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens — George Casey

It's the Same World — Dick Young

Luther Metke at 94 — Richard Hawkins, Jorge Preloran

54th Academy Awards (1981)

Winner

Close Harmony — Nigel Noble

Nominees

Americas in Transition — Obie Benz

Journey for Survival — Dick Young

See What I Say — Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc, Freddi Stevens

Urge to Build — Roland Hallé, John Hoover

55th Academy Awards (1982)

Winner

If You Love This Planet — Edward Le Lorrain, Terri Nash

Nominees

Gods of Metal — Robert Richter

The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America — Charles Guggenheim, Werner Schumann

To Live or Let Die — Freida Lee Mock

Traveling Hopefully — John G. Avildsen

56th Academy Awards (1983)

Winner

Flamenco at 5:15 — Cynthia Scott, Adam Symansky

Nominees

In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? — Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thiermann

Sewing Woman — Arthur Dong

Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph — Robert Eisenhardt

You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei) — Dea Brokman, Ilene Landis

57th Academy Awards (1984)

Winner

The Stone Carvers — Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner

Nominees

The Children of Soong Ching Ling — Gary Bush, Paul T.K. Lin

Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing — Ben Achtenberg, Joan Sawyer

The Garden of Eden — Lawrence R. Hott, Roger M. Sherman

Recollections of Pavlovsk — Irina Kalinina

58th Academy Awards (1985)

Winner

Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements — David Goodman

Nominees

The Courage to Care — Robert Gardner

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date — Michael Crowley, James Wolpaw

Making Overtures--The Story of a Community Orchestra — Barbara Willis Sweete

The Wizard of the Strings — Alan Edelstein

59th Academy Awards (1986)

Winner

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got — Brigitte Berman

Nominees

Debonair Dancers — Alison Nigh-Strelich

The Masters of Disaster — Sonya Friedman

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse — Thomas L. Neff, Madeline Bell

Sam — Aaron D. Weisblatt

60th Academy Awards (1987)

Winner

Young at Heart — Sue Marx, Pamela Conn

Nominees

Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller — Deborah Dickson

In the Wee Wee Hours — Dr. Frank Daniel, Izak Ben-Meir

Language Says It All — Megan Williams

Silver into Gold — Lynn Mueller

61st Academy Awards (1988)

Winner

You Don't Have to Die — William Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke

Nominees

The Children's Storefront — Karen Goodman

Family Gathering — Lise Yasui, Ann Tegnell

Gang Cops — Thomas B. Fleming, Daniel J. Marks

Portrait of Imogen — Nancy Hale, Meg Partridge

62nd Academy Awards (1989)

Winner

The Johnstown Flood — Charles Guggenheim

Nominees

Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 — David Petersen

Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future — Ray Errol Fox

1990s

63rd Academy Awards (1990)

Winner

Days of Waiting — Steven Okazaki

Nominees

Burning Down Tomorrow — Kit Thomas

Chimps: So Like Us — Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon

Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn — Derek Bromhall

Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember — Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders

64th Academy Awards (1991)

Winner

Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment — Deborah Chasnoff

Nominees

Birdnesters of Thailand (aka 'Shadow Hunters') — Eric Valli, Alain Majani

A Little Vicious — Immy Humes

The Mark of the Maker — David McGowan

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers — Bill Couturié, Bernard Edelman

65th Academy Awards (1992)

Winner

Educating Peter — Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg

Nominees

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, Sally Bochner

When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories — Dorothy Fadiman

66th Academy Awards (1993)

Winner

Defending Our Lives — Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich

Nominees

Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann — Steven Cantor, Peter Spirer

Chicks in White Satin — Elaine Holliman, Jason Schneider

67th Academy Awards (1994)

Winner

A Time for Justice — Charles Guggenheim

Nominees

Blues Highway — Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag

89mm od Europy (89mm from Europe) — Marcel Lozinski

School of Assassins — Robert Richter

Straight from the Heart — Dee Mosbacher, Frances Reid

68th Academy Awards (1995)

Winner

One Survivor Remembers — Kary Antholis

Nominees

Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls — Nancy Dine, Richard Stilwell

The Living Sea — Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore

Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper — Terry Sanders, Freida Lee Mock

The Shadow of Hate — Charles Guggenheim

69th Academy Awards (1996)

Winner

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien — Jessica Yu

Nominees

Cosmic Voyage — Jeffrey Marvin, Bayley Silleck

An Essay on Matisse — Perry Wolff

Special Effects — Susanne Simpson, Ben Burtt

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage — Paul Seydor, Nick Redman

70th Academy Awards (1997)

Winner

A Story of Healing — Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak

Nominees

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild — George Casey, Paul Novros

Amazon — Kieth Merrill, Jonathan Stern

Daughter of the Bride — Terri Randall

Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies — Mel Damski, Andrea Blaugrund

71st Academy Awards (1998)

Winner

The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years — Keiko Ibi

Nominees

A Place in Land — Charles Guggenheim

Sunrise over Tiananmen Square — Shui-Bo Wang, Donald McWilliams

72nd Academy Awards (1999)

Winner

King Gimp — Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford

Nominees

Eyewitness — Bert Van Bork

The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo — Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack

2000s

73rd Academy Awards (2000)

Winner

Big Mama — Tracy Seretean

Nominees

Curtain Call — Chuck Braverman, Steve Kalafer

Dolphins — Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore

The Man on Lincoln's Nose — Daniel Raim

On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom — Eric Simonson, Leelai Demoz

74th Academy Awards (2001)

Winner

Thoth — Sarah Kernochan, Lynn Appelle

Nominees

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama — Lianne Klapper McNally

Sing! — Freida Lee Mock, Jessica Sanders

75th Academy Awards (2002)

Winner

Twin Towers — Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port

Nominees

The Collector of Bedford Street — Alice Elliott

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks — Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston

Why Can't We Be a Family Again? — Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel

76th Academy Awards (2003)

Winner

Chernobyl Heart — Maryann DeLeo

Nominees

Asylum — Sandy McLeod, Gini Reticker

Ferry Tales — Katja Esson

77th Academy Awards (2004)

Winner

Mighty Times: The Children's March — Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston

Nominees

Autism Is a World — Gerardine Wurzburg

The Children of Leningradsky — Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski

Hardwood — Hubert Davis, Erin Faith Young

Sister Rose's Passion — Oren Jacoby, Steve Kalafer

78th Academy Awards (2005)

Winner

A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin — Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson

Nominees

The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club — Dan Krauss

God Sleeps in Rwanda — Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman

The Mushroom Club — Steven Okazaki

79th Academy Awards (2006)

Winner

The Blood of Yingzhou District — Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon

Nominees

Recycled Life — Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad

Rehearsing a Dream — Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon

Two Hands — Nathaniel Kahn, Susan R. Behr

80th Academy Awards (2007)

Winner

Freeheld — Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth

Nominees

La Corona (The Crown) — Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega

Salim Baba — Tim Sternberg, Francisco Bello

Sari's Mother — James Longley

81st Academy Awards (2008)

Winner

Smile Pinki — Megan Mylan

Nominees

The Conscience of Nhem En — Steven Okazaki

The Final Inch — Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant

The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 — Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde

82nd Academy Awards (2009)

Winner

Music by Prudence — Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett

Nominees

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province — Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner — Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant — Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

Rabbit à la Berlin — Bartek Konopka, Anna Wydra

2010s

83rd Academy Awards (2010)

Winner

Strangers No More — Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon

Nominees

Killing in the Name — Jed Rothstein

Poster Girl — Sara Nesson

Sun Come Up — Jennifer Redfearn, Tim Metzger

The Warriors of Qiugang — Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon

84th Academy Awards (2011)

Winner

Saving Face — Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Nominees

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement — Robin Fryday, Gail Dolgin

God is the Bigger Elvis — Rebecca Cammisa, Julie Anderson

Incident in New Baghdad — James Spione

The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom — Lucy Walker, Kira Carstensen

85th Academy Awards (2012)

Winner

Inocente — Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine

Nominees

Kings Point — Sari Gilman, Jedd Wider

Mondays at Racine — Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan

Open Heart — Kief Davidson, Cori Shepherd Stern

Redemption — Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

86th Academy Awards (2013)

Winner

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life — Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed

Nominees

CaveDigger — Jeffrey Karoff

Facing Fear — Jason Cohen

Karama Has No Walls — Sara Ishaq

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall — Edgar Barens

87th Academy Awards (2014)

Winner

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 — Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry

Nominees

Joanna — Aneta Kopacz

Our Curse — Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki

The Reaper (La Parka) — Gabriel Serra Arguello

White Earth — J. Christian Jensen

88th Academy Awards (2015)

Winner

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Nominees

Body Team 12 — David Darg, Bryn Mooser

Chau, Beyond the Lines — Courtney Marsh, Jerry Franck

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah — Adam Benzine

Last Day of Freedom — Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman

89th Academy Awards (2016)

Winner

The White Helmets — Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

Nominees

Extremis — Dan Krauss

4.1 Miles — Daphne Matziaraki

Joe's Violin — Kahane Cooperman, Raphaela Neihausen

Watani: My Homeland — Marcel Mettelsiefen, Stephen Ellis

90th Academy Awards (2017)

Winner

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 — Frank Stiefel

Nominees

Edith+Eddie — Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright

Heroin(e) — Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon

Knife Skills — Thomas Lennon

Traffic Stop — Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

91st Academy Awards (2018)

Winner

Period. End of Sentence. — Rayka Zechtabchi, Melissa Berton

Nominees

Black Sheep — Ed Perkins, Jonathan Chinn

End Game — Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Lifeboat — Skye Fitzgerald, Bryn Mooser

A Night at the Garden — Marshall Curry

92nd Academy Awards (2019)

Winner

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) — Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva

Nominees

In the Absence — Yi Seung-Jun, Gary Byung-Seok Kam

Life Overtakes Me — John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson

St. Louis Superman — Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan

Walk Run Cha-Cha — Laura Nix, Colette Sandstedt

2020s

93rd Academy Awards (2020)

Winner

Colette — Anthony Giacchino, Alice Doyard

Nominees

A Concerto Is a Conversation — Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers

Do Not Split — Anders Hammer, Charlotte Cook

Hunger Ward — Skye Fitzgerald, Michael Shueuerman

A Love Song to Latasha — Sophia Nahali Allison, Janice Duncan

94th Academy Awards (2021)

Winner

TBD

Nominees

Audible — Matthew Ogens, Geoff McLean

Lead Me Home — Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk

The Queen of Basketball — Ben Proudfoot

Three Songs for Benazir — Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei

When We Were Bullies — Jay Rosenblatt