Oscar for bedste kortfilm

Oscar for bedste kortfilm (Academy Award for Live Action Short Film) er en filmpris, der gives ved den årlige oscaruddeling til instruktøren (eller produceren) af den bedste kortfilm fra det forgangne filmår.

Ikke-amerikanske kortfilm kan godt nomineres til denne oscar. Danske kortfilm har været nomineret tolv gange og vundet fire for hhv. Valgaften, Der er en yndig mand, De nye lejere og Helium. De nuværende regler fastsætter, at nominerede kortfilm maksimalt må have en spilletid på 40 minutter og ikke må være dokumentarfilm, som har sin egen priskategori for kortfilm. Filmene skal desuden have været vist i biografen, enten i en kommerciel biograf i Californien eller ved en anerkendt filmfestival.

Prisvindere

2010'erne

2016 Kristóf Deák og Anna Udvardy - Sting
2015 Benjamin Cleary og Serena Armitage - Stutterer
2014 Mat Kirkby og James Lucas - The Phone Call
2013 Anders Walter og Kim Magnusson – Helium
2012 Shawn Christensen - Curfew
2011 Terry George og Oorlagh George – The Shore
2010 Luke Matheny – God of love

2000'erne

2009 Joachim Back og Tivi Magnusson – De nye lejere
2008 Jochen Alexander Freydank – Spielzeugland
2007 Phillippe Pollet-Villard – Le Mozart de Pickpockets
2006 Ari Sandel – West Bank Story
2005 Martin McDonagh – Six Shooter
2004 Andrea Arnold – Wasp
2003 Aaron Schneider, Andrew J. Sacks – Two Soldiers
2002 Martin Strange-Hansen, Mie Andreasen – Der er en yndig mand
2001 Ray Mckinnon, Lisa Blount – The Accountant
2000 Florian Gallenberger – Quiero Ser (I Want to Be...)

1990'erne

1999 Barbara Schock, Tamara Tiehel – My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York
1998 Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen – Valgaften
1997 Chris Tashima, Chris Donahue – Visas and Virtue
1996 David Frankel, Barry Jossen – Dear Diary
1995 Christine Lahti, Jana Sue Memel – Lieberman in Love
1994
- Peter Capaldi, Ruth Kenley-Letts – Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
- Peggy Rajski, Randy Stone – Trevor
1993 Pepe Danquart – Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider)
1992 Sam Karmann – Omnibus
1991 Seth Winston, Rob Fried – Session Man
1990 Adam Davidson – The Lunch Date

1980'erne

1989 James Hendrie – Work Experience
1988 Dean Parisot, Steven Wright – The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1987 Jonathan Sanger, Jana Sue Memel – Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
1986 Chuck Workman – Precious Images
1985 Jeff Brown, Chris Pelzer – Molly's Pilgrim
1984 Mike Hoover – Up
1983 Janice L. Platt – Boys and Girls
1982 Christine Oestreicher – A Shocking Accident
1981 Paul Kemp, Shelley Levinson – Violet
1980 Lloyd Phillips – The Dollar Bottom

1970'erne

1979 Sarah Pillsbury, Ron Ellis – Board and Care
1978 Taylor Hackford – Teenage Father
1977 Beverly Shaffer, Yuki Yoshida – I'll Find a Way
1976 Andre Guttfreund, Peter Werner – In the Region of Ice
1975 Bert Salzman – Angel and Big Joe
1974 Paul Claudon, Edmond Sechan – One-Eyed Men Are Kings
1973 Allan Miller, William Fertik – The Bolero
1972 Richard Barclay – Norman Rockwell's World...An American Dream
1971 Manuel Arango, Robert Amram -Sentinels Of Silence
1970 John Longenecker – The Resurrection of Broncho Billy

1960'erne

1969 Joan Keller Stern – The Magic Machines
1968 Charles Guggenheim – Robert Kennedy Remembered
1967 Christopher Chapman – A Place to Stand
1966 Edgar Anstey – Wild Wings
1964 Edward Schreiber – Casals Conducts: 1964
1965 Claude Berri – Le Poulet
1963 Paul De Roubaix, Marcel Ichac – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1962 Pierre Etaix, J. C. Carrière – Heureux Anniversaire
1961 Lester A. Schoenfeld Films – Seawards the Great Ships
1960 Ezra R. Baker – Day of the Painter

1950'erne

1959 Jacques-Yves Cousteau – The Golden Fish
1958 Walt Disney – Grand Canyon
1957 Larry Lansburgh – The Wetback Hound
1956
- (One-Reel) Konstantin Kalser – Crashing the Water Barrier
- (Two-Reel) Romulus Films – The Bespoke Overcoat
1955
- (One-Reel) Edmund Reek – Survival City
- (Two-Reel) Wilbur T. Blume – The Face of Lincoln
1954
- (One-Reel) Robert Youngson – This Mechanical Age
- (Two-Reel) Denis Sanders, Terry Sanders – A Time Out of War
1953
- (One-Reel) Johnny Green – The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
- (Two-Reel) Walt Disney – Bear Country
1952
- (One-Reel) Boris Vermont – Light in the Window: The Art of Vermeer
- (Two-Reel) Walt Disney – Water Birds
1951
- (One-Reel) Robert Youngson – World of Kids
- (Two-Reel) Walt Disney – Nature's Half Acre
1950
- (One-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead – Grandad of Races
- (Two-Reel) Walt Disney – In Beaver Valley

1940'erne

1949
- (One-Reel) Jack Eaton – Aquatic House Party
- (Two-Reel) Gaston Diehl, Robert Haessens – Van Gogh
1948
- (One-Reel) Edmund H. Reek – Symphony of a City
- (Two-Reel) Walt Disney – Seal Island
1947
- (One-Reel) Herbert Moulton – Good-Bye Miss Turlock
- (Two-Reel) Irving Allen – Climbing the Matterhorn
1946
- (One-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead – Facing Your Danger
- (Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead – A Boy and His Dog
1945
- (One-Reel) Herbert Moulton, Jerry Bresler – Stairway to Light'
- (Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead – Star in the Night
1944
- (One-Reel) Jerry Fairbanks – Who's Who in Animal Land
- (Two-Reel) Gordon Hollingshead – I Won't Play
1943
- (One-Reel) Grantland Rice – Amphibious Fighters
- (Two-Reel) Jerry Bresler, Sam Coslow – Heavenly Music
1942
- (One-Reel) Paramount Pictures – Speaking of Animals and Their Families
- (Two-Reel) Warner Bros. – Beyond the Line of Duty
1941
- (One-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Of Pups and Puzzles
- (Two-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Main Street on the March!
1940
- (One-Reel) Pete Smith – Quicker N a Wink
- (Two-Reel) Warner Bros. – Teddy, the Rough Rider

1930'erne

1939
- (One-Reel) Paramount Pictures – Busy Little Bears
- (Two-Reel) Warner Bros. – Sons of Liberty
1938
- (One-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – That Mothers Might Live
- (Two-Reel) Warner Bros. – Declaration Of Independence
1937
- (farve) Pete Smith – Penny Wisdom
- (One-Reel) Skibo Productions – The Private Life of the Gannets
- (Two-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Torture Money
1936
- (farve) Warner Bros. – Give Me Liberty
- (One-Reel) Hal Roach – Bored of Education
- (Two-Reel) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – The Public Pays
1935
- (komedie) Jack Chertok – How to Sleep
- (nyhed) Gaumont British, Skibo Productions – Wings Over Mt. Everest
1934
- (komedie) Kenneth Macgowan – La Cucaracha
- (nyhed) Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard – City of Wax
1933
- (komedie) Louis Brock – So This Is Harris
- (nyhed) Joe Rock – Krakatoa
1932
- (komedie) Hal Roach – The Music Box
- (nyhed) Mack Sennett – Wrestling Swordfish

Danske nominerede film

1996 – Kim Magnusson og Anders Thomas Jensen for Ernst & Lyset
1997 – Kim Magnusson og Anders Thomas Jensen for Wolfgang
1997 – Birger Larsen og Thomas Lydholm for Skal vi være kærester?
1998 – Kim Magnusson og Anders Thomas Jensen for Valgaften (Vinder)
1999 – Henrik Ruben Genz og Michael W. Horsten for Bror, min bror
2002 – Martin Strange-Hansen og Mie Andreasen for Der er en yndig mand (Vinder)
2006 – Søren Pilmark og Kim Magnusson for Helmer & Søn
2007 – Christian E. Christiansen for Om natten
2008 – Dorthe Warnø Høgh og Tivi Magnusson for Grisen
2009 – Joachim Back og Tivi Magnusson for De nye lejere (Vinder)
2013 – Anders Walter og Kim Magnusson for Helium (Vinder)
2017 - Aske Bang og Kim Magnusson for Silent Nights

Eksterne henvisninger

Officielle regler for denne oscar Arkiveret 29. oktober 2006 hos Wayback Machine