1970s Oscar Short Film Winners & Nominees

1979 — 51th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner Special Delivery Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon Short Film, Animated Watch →
🏆 Winner The Flight of the Gossamer Condor Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, Ben Shedd Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner Teenage Father Taylor Hackford Short Film, Live Action
Nominee It's So Nice to Have a Wolf around the House Paul Fierlinger Short Film, Animated
Nominee Dream Doll Bob Godfrey, Zlatko Grgic Short Film, Animated
Nominee Rip Van Winkle Will Vinton Short Film, Animated
Nominee Oh My Darling Borge Ring Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey Jerry Aronson Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Squires of San Quentin Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Goodnight Miss Ann Documentary Short Subject
Nominee An Encounter with Faces Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The Divided Trail Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Tlayucan Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Reunions Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Strange Fruit Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Mandy's Grandmother Short Film, Live Action
Nominee A Different Approach Short Film, Live Action

1978 — 50th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner Sand Castle Co Hoedeman Short Film, Animated Watch →
🏆 Winner Gravity Is My Enemy John Joseph, Jan Stussy Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner I'll Find a Way Beverly Shaffer Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Rip Van Winkle Will Vinton Short Film, Animated
Nominee Oh My Darling Nico Crama Short Film, Animated
Nominee Jimmy the C Jimmy Picker Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Doonesbury Special John Hubley, Faith Hubley Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Bead Game Ishu Patel Short Film, Animated
Nominee Of Time, Tombs and Treasures James R. Messenger Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The Shetland Experience Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Of Time, Tombs and Treasure Documentary Short Subject
Nominee First Edition Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Spaceborne Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Notes on the Popular Arts Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Floating Free Short Film, Live Action
Nominee The Absent-Minded Waiter Short Film, Live Action

1977 — 49th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner Leisure Bruce Petty Short Film, Animated
🏆 Winner Number Our Days Lynne Littman Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner In the Region of Ice Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Jimmy the C James Picker, Robert Grossman, Craig Whitaker Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Doonesbury Special John Hubley, Faith Hubley, Garry Trudeau Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Bead Game Ishu Patel Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Street Caroline Leaf Short Film, Animated
Nominee Dedalo Manfredo Manfredi Short Film, Animated
Nominee Universe Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The End of the Road Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Blackwood Documentary Short Subject
Nominee American Shoeshine Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Number One Dyan Cannon, Vince Cannon Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Nightlife Short Film, Live Action
Nominee The Morning Spider Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Kudzu Short Film, Live Action

1976 — 48th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner Great Bob Godfrey Short Film, Animated Watch →
🏆 Winner The End of the Game Robin Lehman Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner Angel and Big Joe Short Film, Live Action Watch →
Nominee The Street Caroline Leaf, Guy Glover Short Film, Animated
Nominee Dedalo Manfredo Manfredi Short Film, Animated
Nominee Quasi at the Quackadero Sally Cruikshank Short Film, Animated
Nominee Whistling Smith Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Probes in Space Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Millions of Years Ahead of Man Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Arthur and Lillie Documentary Short Subject
Nominee White Mama Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Sixteen Beauteous Loads Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Four Stones for Kanemitsu Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Doubletalk Alan Beattie Short Film, Live Action
Nominee A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo Barry Spinello Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Dawn Flight Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Conquest of Light Short Film, Live Action

1975 — 47th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner Closed Mondays Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner Short Film, Animated Watch →
🏆 Winner Don't Robin Lehman Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner One-Eyed Men Are Kings Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Sisyphus Marcell Jankovics Short Film, Animated
Nominee Monsieur Pointu René Jodoin, Bernard Longpré, André Leduc Short Film, Animated
Nominee Kick Me Robert Swarthe Short Film, Animated
Nominee Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too John Lounsbery Short Film, Animated
Nominee Voyage to Next John Hubley, Faith Hubley Short Film, Animated
Nominee Hunger Peter Foldes Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Family That Dwelt Apart Yvon Mallette Short Film, Animated
Nominee John Muir's High Sierra Dewitt Jones, Lesley Foster Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Exploratorium Jon Boorstin Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Probing the Ocean Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Naked Yoga Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Explorer Jasper National Park Documentary Short Subject
Nominee City Out of Wilderness Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Planet Ocean George V. Casey Short Film, Live Action
Nominee The Concert Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin Short Film, Live Action
Nominee The Violin Short Film, Live Action
Nominee Climb Short Film, Live Action

1974 — 46th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner Frank Film Frank Mouris Short Film, Animated
🏆 Winner Princeton: A Search for Answers Julian Krainin Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner The Bolero Allan Miller, William Fertik Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee The Family That Dwelt Apart Yvon Mallette, Robert Verrall Short Film, Animated
Nominee Pulcinella Emanuele Luzzati Short Film, Animated
Nominee The Legend of John Henry Sam Weiss Short Film, Animated
Nominee Paisti ag obair Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Four Stones for Kanemitsu Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Christo's Valley Curtain Albert Maysles, David Maysles Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Children at Work Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Background Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The Return Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Painting with Sand Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Closed Mondays Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Children at Work Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Life Times Nine Pen Densham, John Watson Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee The Life, Death and Resurrection of a Short Subject Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Clockmaker Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid Short Subject, Live Action

1973 — 45th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner A Christmas Carol Richard Williams Short Film, Animated
🏆 Winner This Tiny World Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Martina Huguenot van der Linden Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Pulcinella Emanuele Luzzati, Giulio Gianini Short Subject, Animated Films
Nominee The Legend of John Henry Nick Bosustow, David Adams Short Subject, Animated Films
Nominee TupTupTup Nedeljko Dragic Short Film, Animated
Nominee Kama Sutra Rides Again Bob Godfrey Short Film, Animated
Nominee Hundertwassers Regentag Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The Tide of Traffic Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Selling Out Documentary Short Subject
Nominee K-Z Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Hundertwasser's Rainy Day Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Ojitos Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Nail, Mathieu, Nail Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee H2O Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Solo Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Frog Story Short Subject, Live Action

1972 — 44th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner The Crunch Bird Ted Petok Short Film, Animated Watch →
🏆 Winner Sentinels of Silence Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner Sentinels of Silence Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Tup Tup Nedeljko Dragic Short Subject, Animated Films
Nominee Kama Sutra Rides Again Bob Godfrey Short Subject, Animated Films
Nominee The Selfish Giant Peter Sander Short Film, Animated
Nominee Evolution Michael Mills Short Film, Animated
Nominee Art Is… Julian Krainin, DeWitt L. Sage Jr. Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Somebody Waiting Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The Numbers Start with the River Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Art Is... Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Adventures in Perception Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Storero Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Solo Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Hawthorne Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee The Rehearsal Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Good Morning Short Subject, Live Action

1971 — 43th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner Is It Always Right to Be Right? Lee Mishkin Short Film, Animated
🏆 Winner Interviews with My Lai Veterans Joseph Strick Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner The Resurrection of Broncho Billy John Longenecker Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee The Selfish Giant Peter Sander, Gerald Potterton Short Subject, Animated Films
Nominee Evolution Michael Mills Short Subject, Animated Films
Nominee The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two Dale Case, Robert Mitchell Short Film, Animated
Nominee Time Is Running Out Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Oisin Documentary Short Subject
Nominee A Long Way from Nowhere Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The Gifts Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Title Shot Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Smashing of the Reich Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee The Rehearsal Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Good Morning Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Sticky My Fingers...Fleet My Feet John Hancock Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Shut Up...I'm Crying Robert Siegler Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Sticky My Fingers, Fleet My Feet Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Shut Up... I'm Crying Short Subject, Live Action

1970 — 42th Academy Awards →

🏆 Winner It's Tough to Be a Bird Ward Kimball Short Subject, Cartoon
🏆 Winner Czechoslovakia 1968 Robert M. Fresco, Denis Sanders Documentary Short Subject Watch →
🏆 Winner The Magic Machines Joan Keller Stern Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee The Shepherd Cameron Guess Short Subject, Cartoon
Nominee The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two Robert Mitchell, Dale Case Short Subject, Cartoon
Nominee Walking Ryan Larkin Short Subject, Cartoon
Nominee Of Men and Demons John Hubley, Faith Hubley Short Subject, Cartoon
Nominee Somebody Waiting Documentary Short Subject
Nominee The Magic Machines Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Leo Beuerman Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Jenny Is a Good Thing Documentary Short Subject
Nominee An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer Documentary Short Subject
Nominee Sticky My Fingers... Fleet My Feet John Hancock Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Shut Up... I'm Crying Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee People Soup Marc Merson Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee The People Tree Short Subject, Live Action
Nominee Blake Short Subject, Live Action

Oscar Short Films: 1970s