Finalists for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film are selected by the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences based on a preliminary ballot. A second preferential ballot determines the five nominees.93aa_rules.pdf These are the additional films that were shortlisted without being nominated.
List of shortlisted films Year Finalists 2005 Abused, Dimmer, Mr. Mergler's Gift, Positively Naked 2006 Dear Talula, The Diary of Immaculée, Phoenix Dance, A Revolving Door 2007 Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, If It Happens, Ochberg's Orphans, Portraits of a Lady 2008 David McCullough: Painting With Words, Downstream, Tongzhi in Love, Viva La Causa 2009 Lt. Watada, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Woman RebelDeol's Film On Oscar Shortlist | News | The Harvard Crimson 2010 Born Sweet, Living for 32, One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey8 Documentary Short Subject Contenders For The 83rd Academy Awards® - We Are Movie Geeks 2011 In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution, Pipe Dreams, Witness 2012 The Education of Mohammad Hussein, ParaÍso, The Perfect Fit 2013 Jujitsu-ing Reality, Recollections, SLOMO 2014 Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, The Lion's Mouth Opens, One Child 2015 50 Feet from Syria, Minerita, My Enemy, My Brother, Starting Point, The Testimony 2016 Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off), Close Ties, Frame 394, The Mute's House, The Other Side of Home 2017 Alone, Kayayo – The Living Shopping Baskets, 116 Cameras, Ram Dass, Going Home, Ten Meter Tower 2018 Los Comandos, My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes, 63 Boycott, Women of the Gulag, Zion 2019 After Maria, Ghosts of Sugar Land, Fire in Paradise, The Nightcrawlers, Stay Close 2020 Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa, Call Center Blues, Hysterical Girl, The Speed Cubers, What Would Sophia Loren Do?2021Águilas, 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 ContagionOscar Shortlists 2022: Documentary, International, Shorts... - Deadline2022 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 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 2024 Chasing Roo, Eternal Father, Keeper, Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World, Once upon a Time in Ukraine, Planetwalker, The Quilters, Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr, A Swim Lesson, Until He's Back 2025 All the Walls Came Down, Bad Hostage, Cashing Out, Chasing Time, Classroom 4, Heartbeat, Last Days on Lake Trinity, On Healing Land, Birds Perch, Rovina's Choice, We Were the Scenery
See also Submissions for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
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