Oscar Short Films: 2020s
22 winners · 85 nominees · 7 ceremonies
2026 — 98th Academy Awards →
- 🏆 Winner The Girl Who Cried Pearls Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski Animated Short Film
- 🏆 Winner All the Empty Rooms Joshua Seftel Documentary Short Film
- 🏆 Winner Two People Exchanging Saliva Alexandre Singh, Natalie Musteata Live Action Short Film
- 🏆 Winner The Singers Sam Davis Live Action Short Film
- Nominee The Three Sisters Konstantin Bronzit Animated Short Film
- Nominee Retirement Plan John Kelly Animated Short Film
- Nominee Forevergreen Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears Animated Short Film
- Nominee Butterfly Florence Miailhe Animated Short Film
- Nominee Perfectly a Strangeness Alison McAlpine Documentary Short Film
- Nominee The Devil Is Busy Christalyn Hampton, Geeta Gandbhir Documentary Short Film
- Nominee Children No More Hilla Medalia, Sheila Nevins Documentary Short Film
- Nominee Armed Only with a Camera Craig Renaud, Juan Arredondo Documentary Short Film
- Nominee Jane Austen's Period Drama Julia Aks, Steve Pinder Live Action Short Film
- Nominee A Friend of Dorothy Lee Knight Live Action Short Film
- Nominee Butcher's Stain Meyer Levinson-Blount, Oron Caspi Live Action Short Film
2025 — 97th Academy Awards →
- 🏆 Winner In the Shadow of the Cypress Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani Short Film, Animated
- 🏆 Winner The Only Girl in the Orchestra Molly O'Brien Documentary Short Subject
- 🏆 Winner I'm Not a Robot Victoria Warmerdam Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Yuck! Loic Espuche Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Wander to Wonder Nina Gantz Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Magic Candies Daisuke Nishio Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Beautiful Men Nicolas Keppens Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Instruments of a Beating Heart Ema Ryan Yamazaki Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Incident Bill Morrison Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee I Am Ready, Warden Smriti Mundhra Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Death by Numbers Sam Fuentes, Ivy Schamis Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent Nebojsa Slijepcevic Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee A Lien Sam Orti Short Film, Live Action Watch →
- Nominee The Last Ranger Cindy Lee Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Anuja Adam J. Graves Short Film, Live Action
2024 — 96th Academy Awards →
- 🏆 Winner War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko Dave Mullins Short Film, Animated
- 🏆 Winner The Last Repair Shop Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers Documentary Short Subject
- 🏆 Winner The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Wes Anderson Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Pachyderme Stephanie Clement Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Our Uniform Yegane Moghaddam Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Ninety-Five Senses Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Letter to a Pig Tal Kantor Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Nai Nai & Wai Po Sean Wang Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Island in Between S. Leo Chiang, Jean Tsien Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee The Barber of Little Rock John Hoffman, Christine Turner Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee The ABCs of Book Banning Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Red, White and Blue Nazrin Choudhury Short Film, Live Action Watch →
- Nominee Knight of Fortune Lasse Lyskjaer Noha Short Film, Live Action Watch →
- Nominee Invincible Vincent Rene-Lortie Short Film, Live Action Watch →
- Nominee The After Misan Harriman Short Film, Live Action
2023 — 95th Academy Awards →
- 🏆 Winner The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, Matthew Freud Short Film, Animated
- 🏆 Winner The Elephant Whisperers Kartiki Gonsalves Documentary Short Subject
- 🏆 Winner An Irish Goodbye Tom Berkeley, Ross White Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It Lachlan Pendragon Short Film, Animated
- Nominee My Year of Dicks Sara Gunnarsdottir Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Ice Merchants Joao Gonzalez Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee The Flying Sailor Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Stranger at the Gate Joshua Seftel Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee The Martha Mitchell Effect Anne Alvergue, Beth Levison Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee How Do You Measure a Year? Jay Rosenblatt Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Haulout Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee The Red Suitcase Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Night Ride Short Film, Live Action Watch →
- Nominee Le Pupille Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Ivalu Short Film, Live Action
2022 — 94th Academy Awards →
- 🏆 Winner The Windshield Wiper Alberto Mielgo Short Film, Animated
- 🏆 Winner The Queen of Basketball Ben Proudfoot Documentary Short Subject
- 🏆 Winner The Long Goodbye Aneil Karia Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee BoxBallet Anton Dyakov Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Robin Robin Dan Ojari, Mikey Please Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Boxballet Anton Dyakov Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Bestia Hugo Covarrubias Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Affairs of the Art Joanna Quinn Short Film, Animated
- Nominee When We Were Bullies Jay Rosenblatt Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Three Songs for Benazir Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Lead Me Home Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Audible Matt Ogens Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Ala Kachuu - Take and Run Maria Brendle Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Please Hold Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee On My Mind Short Film, Live Action Watch →
- Nominee The Dress Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Ala Kachuu — Take and Run Short Film, Live Action
2021 — 93th Academy Awards →
- 🏆 Winner If Anything Happens I Love You Will McCormack, Michael Govier Short Film, Animated
- 🏆 Winner Colette Anthony Giacchino Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- 🏆 Winner Two Distant Strangers Travon Free, Martin Desmond Roe Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Yes-People Gisli Darri Halldorsson Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Opera Erick Oh Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Genius Loci Adrien Merigeau Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Burrow Madeline Sharafian Short Film, Animated
- Nominee A Love Song for Latasha Sophia Nahli Allison Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee Hunger Ward Skye Fitzgerald Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee Do Not Split Anders Hammer Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee A Concerto Is a Conversation Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee White Eye Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee The Present Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee The Letter Room Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Feeling Through Short Film, Live Action Watch →
2020 — 92th Academy Awards →
- 🏆 Winner Hair Love Matthew A. Cherry Short Film, Animated
- 🏆 Winner Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) Carol Dysinger Documentary Short Subject
- 🏆 Winner The Neighbors' Window Marshall Curry Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Sister Siqi Song Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Memorable Bruno Collet Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Kitbull Rosana Sullivan Short Film, Animated Watch →
- Nominee Dcera (Daughter) Daria Kashcheeva Short Film, Animated
- Nominee Walk Run Cha-Cha Laura Nix Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee St. Louis Superman Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee Life Overtakes Me Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas Documentary Short Subject
- Nominee In the Absence Yi Seung-jun Documentary Short Subject Watch →
- Nominee A Sister Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Saria Short Film, Live Action
- Nominee Nefta Football Club Short Film, Live Action Watch →
- Nominee Brotherhood Short Film, Live Action Watch →