The Best Oscar-Winning Short Films
What is best oscar-winning short film? This list has every film that has won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film including titles such as “The Music Box,” “Visas and Virtue,” “The Accountant,” and “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life.” The award has officially been called this since 1974, but this list includes all previous live action short film winners, stretching back to 1932 when the first short films were honored. Movies have the ability to make us feel. They make us want to believe, be inspired, and live vicariously through the stories we see on screen. The best of these movies each year are bestowed with an Academy Award nomination, and those that are truly the best take home the Oscar. Short films are often the most thought provoking as they tell a story so succinctly, and can spend what time they have focusing on one main theme.
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Curfew
Fátima Ptacek, Shawn Christensen, Kim Allen- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Shawn Christensen
At a low point in his life, a man gets the call to take care of his estranged sister's child. - 2Chris Tashima, Diana Georger
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Chris Tashima
Visas and Virtue is a 1997 narrative short film inspired by the true story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara, who is known as "The Japanese Schindler". Sugihara issued over 2,000 transit ...more - 3Walton Goggins, Ray McKinnon
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Ray McKinnon
The Accountant is a 2001 American short comedy film directed by Ray McKinnon. It won an Academy Award at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002 for McKinnon and his wife Lisa Blount for Best Short ...more - 4Brendan Gleeson, Rúaidhrí Conroy
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Six Shooter is an Irish 2004 live action short film starring Brendan Gleeson and Rúaidhrí Conroy. The film earned several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. - 5Merrell Gage
- Released: 1956
- Directed by: Edward Freed
Presents Professor Merrell Gage of USC, describing the life and career of Abraham Lincoln as he sculpts a lifelike bust of the 16th president, making physical changes in the subject's hair, beard and ...more - 6Didi Conn, Tom McGowan, Rodney Saulsberry
- Released: 1981
- Directed by: Shelley Levinson
Violet is a 1981 short film directed by Shelley Levinson. It won an Academy Award in 1982 for Best Short Subject.