Finalists for Best Documentary (Short Subject) are selected by the Documentary Branch based on a preliminary ballot. A second preferential ballot determines the five nominees. [1] These are the additional films that were shortlisted.
Year | Finalists |
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2007 | Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, If It Happens, Ochberg's Orphans, Portraits of a Lady [2] |
2008 | David McCullough: Painting With Words, Downstream, Tongzhi in Love , Viva La Causa [3] |
2009 | Lt. Watada, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak , Woman Rebel [4] [5] |
2010 | Born Sweet, Living for 32, One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey [6] |
2011 | In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution, Pipe Dreams, Witness [7] |
2012 | The Education of Mohammad Hussein, ParaÍso, The Perfect Fit [8] |
2013 | Jujitsu-ing Reality, Recollections, SLOMO [9] |
2014 | Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, The Lion's Mouth Opens , One Child [10] |
2015 | 50 Feet from Syria , Minerita , ’My Enemy, My Brother , Starting Point , The Testimony [11] |
2016 | Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off) , Close Ties, ’Frame 394 , The Mute's House , The Other Side of Home [12] |
2017 | Alone, Kayayo – The Living Shopping Baskets, ’116 Cameras, Ram Dass, Going Home , Ten Meter Tower [13] |
2018 | Los Comandos, My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes , ’63 Boycott, Women of the Gulag , Zion [14] |
2019 | After Maria , Ghosts of Sugar Land , Fire in Paradise , The Nightcrawlers, Stay Close [15] |
2020 | Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa; Call Center Blues; Hysterical Girl; The Speed Cubers ; What Would Sophia Loren Do? [16] |
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 [17] |
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 [18] |
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 [19] |
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