Submissions for Best Documentary Short Academy Award

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.^[1] These are the additional films that were shortlisted without being nominated.

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Year	Finalists
2005	Abused, Dimmer, Mr. Mergler's Gift, Positively Naked^[2]
2006	Dear Talula, The Diary of Immaculée, Phoenix Dance, A Revolving Door^[3]
2007	Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, If It Happens, Ochberg's Orphans, Portraits of a Lady^[4]
2008	David McCullough: Painting With Words, Downstream, Tongzhi in Love, Viva La Causa^[5]
2009	Lt. Watada, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Woman Rebel^[6]^[7]
2010	Born Sweet, Living for 32, One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey^[8]
2011	In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution, Pipe Dreams, Witness^[9]
2012	The Education of Mohammad Hussein, ParaÍso, The Perfect Fit^[10]
2013	Jujitsu-ing Reality, Recollections, SLOMO^[11]
2014	Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, The Lion's Mouth Opens, One Child^[12]
2015	50 Feet from Syria, Minerita, My Enemy, My Brother, Starting Point, The Testimony^[13]
2016	Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off), Close Ties, Frame 394, The Mute's House, The Other Side of Home^[14]
2017	Alone, Kayayo – The Living Shopping Baskets, 116 Cameras, Ram Dass, Going Home, Ten Meter Tower^[15]
2018	Los Comandos, My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes, 63 Boycott, Women of the Gulag, Zion^[16]
2019	After Maria, Ghosts of Sugar Land, Fire in Paradise, The Nightcrawlers, Stay Close^[17]
2020	Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa, Call Center Blues, Hysterical Girl, The Speed Cubers, What Would Sophia Loren Do?^[18]
2021	Águilas, 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 Contagion^[19]
2022	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^[20]
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^[21]
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^[22]^[23]
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^[24]^[25]

v t e Academy Awards lists
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Records Most awards per ceremony
Combined major Academy Awards	Superlatives Big Five All four acting categories
Acting	All nominees Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Non-English acting noms Actor multi-nom years Multi-win actors Multi-nom actors "Oscar love curse"
Directing	Best Director
Film	Winning films Multi-noms in same category Two acting awards for same film Foreign-language wins Foreign-language noms in other categories International Feature nominees International Feature: count by country Best Animated Feature submissions Best Documentary Feature submissions Best Animated Short submissions Best Documentary Short submissions Animated feature noms in other categories
Countries of the nominees	Africa Argentina Australia Austria Baltic Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Czech Republic Europe France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan (South) Korea Latin America Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nordic Pakistan Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Spain Switzerland
Nominees demographics	Asian Black Generation Z Hispanic Indigenous Jewish Millennial Muslim
Other	Ceremonies Families False names Multi-win years Awards for Walt Disney Posthumous wins and noms Best Picture presenters Trophies on public display Oldest and youngest LGBTQ Women in non-gendered categories
Combined major awards	EGOT Triple Crown of Acting
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