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| 2009 | Winner | Man on Wire (2008) | James Marsh (I), Simon Chinn | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The (2008) | Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath |
| Encounters at the End of the World (2007) | Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser (II) |
| Garden, The (2008/I) | Scott Hamilton Kennedy |
| Trouble the Water (2008) | Tia Lessin, Carl Deal |
| 2008 | Winner | Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) | Alex Gibney, Eva Orner |
| Nominated | No End in Sight (2007) | Charles Ferguson (III), Audrey Marrs |
| Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007) | Richard Robbins (IV) |
| Sicko (2007) | Michael Moore (II), Meghan O'Hara (I) |
| War Dance (2007) | Andrea Nix, Sean Fine |
| 2008 | Winner | Freeheld (2007) | Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Corona, La (2008) | Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega (V) |
| Salim Baba (2007) | Tim Sternberg (III), Francisco Bello (I) |
| Sari's Mother (2006) | James Longley |
| 2007 | Winner | Inconvenient Truth, An (2006) | Davis Guggenheim | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | "P.O.V." (1988) {My Country, My Country} | Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer |
| Deliver Us from Evil (2006) | Amy Berg (II), Frank Donner |
| Iraq in Fragments (2006) | James Longley, Yahya Sinno |
| Jesus Camp (2006) | Heidi Ewing (I), Rachel Grady |
| 2007 | Winner | Blood of Yingzhou District, The (2006) | Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon (II) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Recycled Life (2006) | Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad |
| Rehearsing a Dream (2006) | Karen Goodman (II), Kirk Simon |
| Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story (2006) | Nathaniel Kahn (I), Susan Rose Behr |
| 2006 | Winner | Marche de l'empereur, La (2005) | Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Darwin's Nightmare (2004) | Hubert Sauper |
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) | Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot |
| Murderball (2005) | Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro |
| Street Fight (2005) | Marshall Curry |
| 2006 | Winner | Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, A (2005) | Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson (I) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | God Sleeps in Rwanda (2005) | Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman |
| Life of Kevin Carter, The (2004) | Dan Krauss (I) |
| Mushroom Club, The (2005) | Steven Okazaki |
| 2005 | Winner | Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004) | Ross Kauffman (I), Zana Briski | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel, Die (2003) | Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa |
| Super Size Me (2004) | Morgan Spurlock |
| Tupac: Resurrection (2003) | Lauren Lazin, Karolyn Ali |
| Twist of Faith (2004) | Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt (I) |
| 2005 | Winner | Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004) | Robert Hudson (VI), Robert Houston (I) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Autism Is a World (2004) (TV) | Gerardine Wurzburg |
| Children of Leningradsky, The (2005) | Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski |
| Hardwood (2004) | Erin Faith Young, Hubert Davis (I) |
| Sister Rose's Passion (2004) | Oren Jacoby, Steve Kalafer |
| 2004 | Winner | Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The (2003) | Errol Morris, Michael Williams (VI) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Balseros (2002) | Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech (I) |
| Capturing the Friedmans (2003) | Andrew Jarecki (I), Marc Smerling |
| My Architect (2003) | Nathaniel Kahn (I), Susan Rose Behr |
| Weather Underground, The (2002) | Sam Green (II), Bill Siegel (I) |
| 2004 | Winner | Chernobyl Heart (2003) | Maryann DeLeo | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Asylum (2003/II) | Sandy McLeod, Gini Reticker |
| Ferry Tales (2003) | Katja Esson |
| 2003 | Winner | Bowling for Columbine (2002) | Michael Moore (II), Michael Donovan (II) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Daughter from Danang (2002) | Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco |
| Peuple migrateur, Le (2001) | Jacques Perrin |
| Prisoner of Paradise (2002) | Malcolm Clarke (II), Stuart Sender |
| Spellbound (2002/I) | Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch (II) |
| 2003 | Winner | Twin Towers (2003) | Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Collector of Bedford Street, The (2002) | Alice Elliott (I) |
| Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002) | Robert Hudson (VI), Robert Houston (I) |
| Why Can't We Be a Family Again? (2002) | Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel |
| 2002 | Winner | Un coupable idéal (2001) | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Children Underground (2001) | Edet Belzberg |
| LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001) (TV) | Susan Frömke, Deborah Dickson |
| Promises (2001) | Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg |
| War Photographer (2001) | Christian Frei (I) |
| 2002 | Winner | Thoth (2002) | Sarah Kernochan, Lynn Appelle | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Artists and Orphans: A True Drama (2001) | Lianne Klapper-McNally |
| Sing! (2001) | Freida Lee Mock, Jessica Sanders |
| 2001 | Winner | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) | Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Legacy (2000) | Tod Lending (I) |
| Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000) | Frances Reid (II), Deborah Hoffmann (I) |
| Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000) | Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker |
| Sound and Fury (2000) | Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg |
| 2001 | Winner | Big Mama (2000/I) | Tracy Seretean | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Curtain Call (2000) | Charles Braverman, Steve Kalafer |
| Dolphins (2000) | Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore |
| Man on Lincoln's Nose, The (2000) | Daniel Raim |
| On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom (2000) | Eric Simonson (I), Leelai Demoz (II) |
| 2000 | Winner | One Day in September (1999) | Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Buena Vista Social Club (1999) | Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg |
| Genghis Blues (1999) | Roko Belic (I), Adrian Belic |
| On the Ropes (1999) | Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen (I) |
| Speaking in Strings (1999) | Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster |
| 2000 | Winner | King Gimp (1999) | Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Eyewitness (1999/I) | Bert Van Bork |
| Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo, The (1999) | Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack (I) |
| 1999 | Winner | Last Days, The (1998) | James Moll, Ken Lipper | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Dancemaker (1998) | Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer |
| Farm: Angola, USA, The (1998) | Jonathan Stack (I), Liz Garbus |
| Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998) | Robert B. Weide |
| Regret to Inform (1998) | Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole (II) |
| 1999 | Winner | Personals, The (1999) | Keiko Ibi | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Place in the Land, A (1998) | Charles Guggenheim |
| Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998) | Shui-Bo Wang, Donald McWilliams |
| 1998 | Winner | Long Way Home, The (1997) | Marvin Hier, Richard Trank | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | 4 Little Girls (1997) | Spike Lee, Samuel D. Pollard |
| Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997) | Michael Paxton |
| Colors Straight Up (1997) | Michèle Ohayon, Julia Schachter |
| Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997) | William Gazecki |
| 1998 | Winner | Story of Healing, A (1997) | Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (1997) | George Casey (I), Paul Novros |
| Amazon (1997) | Kieth Merrill, Jonathan Stern (II) |
| Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride (1997) (TV) | Terri Randall (II) |
| Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies (1997) | Mel Damski, Andrea Blaugrund |
| 1997 | Winner | When We Were Kings (1996) | Leon Gast, David Sonenberg | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story, The (1996) | Susan Warms Dryfoos |
| Mandela (1996) | Jo Menell, Angus Gibson |
| Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (1996) | Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson |
| Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996) | Rick Goldsmith |
| 1997 | Winner | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996) | Jessica Yu | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Cosmic Voyage (1996) | Jeffrey Marvin, Bayley Silleck |
| Essay on Matisse, An (1996) | Perry Wolff (I) |
| Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996) | Susanne Simpson, Ben Burtt |
| Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage, The (1996) | Paul Seydor, Nick Redman |
| 1996 | Winner | Anne Frank Remembered (1995) | Jon Blair | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | "American Experience, The" (1988) {The Battle Over Citizen Kane (#8.7)} | Thomas Lennon (II), Michael Epstein (I) |
| "American Experience, The" (1988) {Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern} | Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher |
| Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (1995) | Michael Tollin |
| Small Wonders (1995) | Allan Miller (II), Walter Scheuer |
| 1996 | Winner | One Survivor Remembers (1995) | Kary Antholis | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls (1995) | Nancy Dine, Richard Stilwell (I) |
| Living Sea, The (1995) | Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore |
| Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper (1995) | Terry Sanders (I), Freida Lee Mock |
| Shadow of Hate, The (1995) | Charles Guggenheim |
| 1995 | Winner | Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) | Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders (I) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | "American Experience, The" (1988) {D-Day Remembered (#6.8)} | Charles Guggenheim |
| Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (1994) | Deborah Hoffmann (I) |
| Freedom on My Mind (1994) | Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford |
| Great Day in Harlem, A (1994) | Jean Bach (I) |
| 1995 | Winner | Time for Justice, A (1994) | Charles Guggenheim | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | 89 mm od Europy (1993) | Marcel Lozinski |
| Blues Highway (1994) | Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag |
| School of the Americas Assassins (1994) | Robert Richter (I) |
| Straight from the Heart (1994) | Dee Mosbacher, Frances Reid (II) |
| 1994 | Winner | I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993) | Susan Raymond (I), Alan Raymond (II) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter, The (1993) | David Paperny, Arthur Ginsberg |
| Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family (1993) | Susan Todd (I), Andrew Young (I) |
| For Better or for Worse (1993) | David Collier (I), Betsy Thompson (I) |
| War Room, The (1993) | D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus |
| 1994 | Winner | Defending Our Lives (1994) | Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann (1994) | Steven Cantor (I), Peter Spirer |
| Chicks in White Satin (1994) | Elaine Holliman, Jason Schneider (I) |
| 1993 | Winner | Panama Deception, The (1992) | Barbara Trent, David Kasper (I) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (1992) | David Haugland (I) |
| Fires of Kuwait (1992) | Sally Dundas |
| Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992) (TV) | William Miles (I), Nina Rosenblum |
| Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992) | Margaret Smilov, Roma Baran |
| 1993 | Winner | Educating Peter (1992) | Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai (1992) | Geoffrey O'Connor |
| Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' (1994) | Wendy L. Weinberg |
| Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein, The (1992) | Richard Elson (I), Sally Bochner |
| When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories (1992) | Dorothy Fadiman |
| 1992 | Winner | In the Shadow of the Stars (1991) | Allie Light, Irving Saraf | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Death on the Job (1991) | Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag |
| Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991) | Alan Raymond (II), Susan Raymond (I) |
| Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945, The (1992) | Hava Kohav Beller |
| Wild by Law (1991) | Lawrence R. Hott, Diane Garey |
| 1992 | Winner | Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (1991) | Debra Chasnoff | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Chasseurs des ténèbres (1991) | Eric Valli, Alain Majani d'Inguimbert |
| Little Vicious, A (1991) | Immy Humes |
| Mark of the Maker, The (1991) | David McGowan (II) |
| Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers (1991) | Bill Couturié, Bernard Edelman |
| 1991 | Winner | American Dream (1990) | Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) | Mark Kitchell |
| Building Bombs (1991) | Mark Mori, Susan Robinson (I) |
| Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1990) | Judith Montell |
| Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990) | Robert Hillmann, Eugene X |
| 1991 | Winner | Days of Waiting (1990) | Steven Okazaki | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Burning Down Tomorrow (1990) | Kit Thomas |
| Chimps: So Like Us (1990) | Karen Goodman (II), Kirk Simon |
| Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn (1990) | Dr. Derek Bromhall |
| Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember (1990) | Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders (I) |
| 1990 | Winner | Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) | Rob Epstein (I), Bill Couturié | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Adam Clayton Powell (1989) | Richard Kilberg, Yvonne Smith (II) |
| Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989) | Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag |
| For All Mankind (1989) | Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier |
| Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989) | Judith Leonard, Bill Jersey |
| 1990 | Winner | Johnstown Flood, The (1989) | Charles Guggenheim | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 (1989) | David Petersen (II) |
| Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (1989) | Ray Errol Fox |
| 1989 | Winner | Hôtel Terminus (1988) | Marcel Ophüls | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude - An Afrikaner Speaks Out, The (1988) | Robert Bilheimer, Ronald Mix |
| Let's Get Lost (1988) | Bruce Weber, Nan Bush |
| Promises to Keep (1988) | Ginny Durrin |
| Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) | Renee Tajima-Pena, Christine Choy |
| 1989 | Winner | You Don't Have to Die (1988) | Bill Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke (II) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Children's Storefront, The (1988) | Karen Goodman (II) |
| Family Gathering (1988) | Lise Yasui, Ann Tegnell |
| Gang Cops (1988) | Thomas B. Fleming, Daniel Marks (I) |
| Portrait of Imogen (1988) | Nancy Hale (II), Meg Partridge (II) |
| 1988 | Winner | Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, The (1987) | Aviva Slesin | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | "Eyes on the Prize" (1987) | Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney |
| Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima (1986) | John Junkerman, John W. Dower |
| Radio Bikini (1988) | Robert Stone (IV) |
| Stitch for Time, A (1987) | Barbara Herbich, Cyril Christo |
| 1988 | Winner | Young at Heart (1987) | Sue Marx, Pamela Conn | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller (1987) | Deborah Dickson |
| In the Wee Wee Hours... (1987) | Frantisek Daniel, Izak Ben-Meir |
| Language Says It All (1987) | Megan Williams (III) |
| Silver Into Gold (1987) | Lynn Mueller |
| 1987 | Winner | Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985) | Brigitte Berman | Best Documentary, Features |
| Down and Out in America (1986) | Joseph Feury, Milton Justice |
| Nominated | Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986) | David Bradbury (I) |
| Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer (1986) | Kirk Simon, Amram Nowak |
| Witness to Apartheid (1986) | Sharon I. Sopher |
| 1987 | Winner | Women - for America, for the World (1986) | Vivienne Verdon-Roe | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Debonair Dancers (1986) | Alison Nigh-Strelich |
| Masters of Disaster, The (1986) | Sonya Friedman |
| Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse (1986) | Thomas L. Neff, Madeline Bell (I) |
| Sam (1986) | Aaron D. Weisblatt |
| 1986 | Winner | Broken Rainbow (1985) | Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Las (1985) | Susana Blaustein Muñoz, Lourdes Portillo |
| Soldiers in Hiding (1985) | Japhet Asher |
| Statue of Liberty, The (1985) | Ken Burns (I), Buddy Squires |
| Unfinished Business (1986) | Steven Okazaki |
| 1986 | Winner | Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985) | David Goodman (I) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Courage to Care, The (1985) | Robert H. Gardner |
| Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date (1985) | Michael Crowley (IV), Jim (as James Wolpaw) Wolpaw |
| Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra (1984) | Barbara Willis Sweete |
| Wizard of the Strings, The (1985) | Alan Edelstein (I) |
| 1985 | Winner | Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984) | Rob Epstein (I), Richard Schmiechen | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | High Schools (1984) | Charles Guggenheim, Nancy Sloss |
| In the Name of the People (1985) | Alex W. Drehsler, Frank Christopher (I) |
| Marlene (1984) | Karel Dirka, Zev Braun |
| Streetwise (1984) | Cheryl McCall (I) |
| 1985 | Winner | Stone Carvers, The (1984) | Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner (II) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Children of Soong Ching Ling, The (1984) | Gary Bush (I), Paul T.K. Lin |
| Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing (1984) | Ben Achtenberg, Joan Sawyer (II) |
| Garden of Eden, The (1984) | Lawrence R. Hott, Roger M. Sherman |
| Vospominaniye o Pavlovske (1984) | Irina Kalinina (I) |
| 1984 | Winner | He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983) | Emile Ardolino | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Children of Darkness (1983) | Richard Kotuk, Ara Chekmayan |
| First Contact (1983) | Bob Connolly (I), Robin Anderson (I) |
| Profession of Arms, The (1983) | Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen |
| Seeing Red (1983) | Jim Klein (II), Julia Reichert (I) |
| 1984 | Winner | Flamenco at 5:15 (1983) | Cynthia Scott (I), Adam Symansky | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Ihr zent frei (1983) | Dea Brokman, Ilene Landis |
| In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? (1983) | Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thiermann |
| Sewing Woman (1983) | Arthur Dong |
| Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (1983) | Bob Eisenhardt |
| 1983 | Winner | "Fifth Estate, The" (1975) {Just Another Missing Kid} | John Zaritsky | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | After the Axe (1982) | Sturla Gunnarsson, Steve Lucas (I) |
| Ben's Mill (1982) | John Karol, Michel Chalufour |
| In Our Water (1982) | Meg Switzgable |
| Portrait of Giselle, A (1982) | Joseph Wishy |
| 1983 | Winner | If You Love This Planet (1982) | Edward Le Lorrain, Terre Nash | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Gods of Metal (1982) | Robert Richter (I) |
| Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America, The (1982) | Charles Guggenheim, Werner Schumann (I) |
| To Live or Let Die (1982) | Freida Lee Mock |
| Traveling Hopefully (1982) | John G. Avildsen |
| 1982 | Winner | Genocide (1982) | Arnold Schwartzman, Marvin Hier | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey (1981) | Susanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin, Jim Burroughs |
| Brooklyn Bridge (1981) | Ken Burns (I) |
| Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott (1981) | Mary Benjamin (I), Susanne Simpson, Boyd Estus |
| El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981) | Glenn Silber (I), Teté Vasconcellos |
| 1982 | Winner | Close Harmony (1981) | Nigel Noble | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Americas in Transition (1981) | Obie Benz |
| Journey for Survival (1981) | Dick Young (I) |
| See What I Say (1981) | Linda Rogers-Ambury, Pam LeBlanc, Freddi Stevens |
| Urge to Build (1981) | Roland Hallé, John Hoover (III) |
| 1981 | Winner | From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981) | Murray Lerner (I) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Agee (1980) | Ross Spears |
| Day After Trinity, The (1981) | Jon Else |
| Front Line (1981) | David Bradbury (I) |
| Gelbe Stern, Der (1980) | Bengt von zur Mühlen, Arthur Cohn |
| 1981 | Winner | Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (1980) | Roland Hallé, Peter W. Ladue | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Don't Mess with Bill (1980) | John Watson (I), Pen Densham |
| Eruption of Mount St. Helens!, The (1980) | George Casey (I) |
| It's the Same World (1980) | Dick Young (II) |
| Luther Metke at 94 (1980) | Richard Hawkins (II), Jorge Preloran |
| 1980 | Winner | Best Boy (1979) | Ira Wohl | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Generation on the Wind (1979) | David Vassar |
| Going the Distance (1979) | Paul Cowan (I), Jacques Bobet |
| Killing Ground, The (1979) | Steve Singer, Tom Priestley (IV) |
| War at Home, The (1979) | Glenn Silber (I), Barry Alexander Brown |
| 1980 | Winner | Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) | Saul J. Turell | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Dae (1979) | Risto Teofilovski |
| Koryo Celadon (1979) | Donald A. Connolly, James R. Messenger |
| Nails (1979) | Phillip Borsos |
| Remember Me (1979) | Dick Young (I) |
| 1979 | Winner | Scared Straight! (1978) | Arnold Shapiro | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978) | Alan Root |
| Raoni (1978) | Jean-Pierre Dutilleux (I), Barry Hugh Williams, Michel Gast |
| Vent des amoureux, Le (1978) | Albert Lamorisse |
| With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1979) | Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb, Lorraine Gray (III) |
| 1979 | Winner | Flight of the Gossamer Condor, The (1978) | Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, Ben Shedd | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey, The (1978) | Jerry Aronson |
| Encounter with Faces, An (1978) | K.K. Kapil |
| Goodnight Miss Ann (1978) | August Cinquegrana |
| Squires of San Quentin (1978) | J. Gary Mitchell |
| 1978 | Winner | Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?] (1977) | John Korty, Dan McCann (I), Warren Lockhart | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Children of Theatre Street, The (1977) | Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack |
| High Grass Circus (1977) | Bill Brind, Torben Schioler, Tony Ianzelo |
| Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977) | Harry Rasky |
| Union Maids (1976) | Jim Klein (II), Julia Reichert (I), Miles Mogulescu |
| 1978 | Winner | Gravity Is My Enemy (1977) | John C. Joseph, Jan Stussy | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country (1977) | Moctesuma Esparza |
| First Edition (1977) | Helen Whitney, DeWitt Sage |
| Of Time, Tombs and Treasures (1977) | James R. Messenger, Paul Raimondi |
| Shetland Experience, The (1977) | Douglas Gordon (III) |
| 1977 | Winner | Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) | Barbara Kopple | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Hollywood on Trial (1976) | James C. Gutman, David Helpern |
| Off the Edge (1976) | Michael Firth |
| People of the Wind (1976) | Anthony Howarth, David Koff (I) |
| Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) | Donald Brittain, Robert A. Duncan |
| 1977 | Winner | Number Our Days (1976) | Lynne Littman | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | American Shoeshine (1976) | Sparky Greene |
| Blackwood (1976) | Tony Ianzelo, Andy Thomson (I) |
| End of the Road, The (1976) | John Armstrong (III) |
| Universe (1976) | Lester Novros |
| 1976 | Winner | Man Who Skied Down Everest, The (1975) | F.R. Crawley, James Hager, Dale Hartleben | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | California Reich, The (1975) | Walter F. Parkes, Keith Critchlow |
| Fighting for Our Lives (1975) | Glen Pearcy (I) |
| Incredible Machine, The (1975) | Irwin Rosten |
| Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, The (1975) | Shirley MacLaine |
| 1976 | Winner | End of the Game, The (1975) | Claire Wilbur, Robin Lehman | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Arthur and Lillie (1975) | Jon Else, Steven Kovacs (I), Kristine Samuelson |
| Millions of Years Ahead of Man (1975) | Manfred Baier (I) |
| Probes in Space (1975) | George Casey (I) |
| Whistling Smith (1975) | Barrie Howells, Michael Scott (VI) |
| 1975 | Winner | Hearts and Minds (1974) | Peter Davis (II), Bert Schneider (I) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974) | Judy Collins (I), Jill Godmilow |
| Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art, The (1977) | Herbert Kline |
| Makah Hashmonim V'Echad, Ha- (1974) | Jacques Ehrlich, David Bergman (I), Haim Gouri |
| Wild and the Brave, The (1974) | Natalie R. Jones, Eugene S. Jones |
| 1975 | Winner | Don't (1974) | Robin Lehman | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | City Out of Wilderness (1974) | Francis Thompson (I) |
| Exploratorium (1974) | Jon Boorstin |
| John Muir's High Sierra (1974) | Dewitt Jones (I), Lesley Foster |
| Naked Yoga (1974) | Ronald S. Kass, Mervyn Lloyd |
| 1974 | Winner | Great American Cowboy, The (1973) | Kieth Merrill | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Always a New Beginning (1974) | John D. Goodell |
| Journey to the Outer Limits (1973) | Alexander Grasshoff |
| Schlacht um Berlin (1973) | Bengt von zur Mühlen |
| Walls of Fire (1971) | Gertrude Ross Marks, Edmund F. Penney |
| 1974 | Winner | Princeton: A Search for Answers (1974) | Julian Krainin, DeWitt Sage | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Background (1973) | Carmen D'Avino |
| Christo's Valley Curtain (1974) | Albert Maysles, David Maysles |
| Four Stones for Kanemitsu (1973) | Terry Sanders (I), June Wayne (I) |
| Paisti ag obair (1973) | Louis Marcus |
| 1973 | Winner | Marjoe (1972) | Howard Smith (II), Sarah Kernochan | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Bij de beesten af (1972) | Bert Haanstra |
| Malcolm X (1972) | Marvin Worth, Arnold Perl |
| Manson (1973) | Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick |
| Silent Revolution, The (1972) | Eckehard Munck |
| 1973 | Winner | Deze kleine wereld (1972) | Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Martina Huguenot van der Linden | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Hundertwassers Regentag (1971) | Peter Schamoni |
| K-Z (1972) | Giorgio Treves |
| Selling Out (1972) | Tadeusz Jaworski (I) |
| Tide of Traffic, The (1972) | Humphrey Swingler |
| 1972 | Winner | Hellstrom Chronicle, The (1971) | Walon Green | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Alaska Wilderness Lake (1971) | Alan Landsburg |
| Chagrin et la pitié, Le (1969) | Marcel Ophüls |
| On Any Sunday (1971) | Bruce Brown (I) |
| Ra (1972) | Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl |
| 1972 | Winner | Centinelas del silencio (1971) | Manuel Arango (I), Robert Amram | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Adventures in Perception (1971) | Han Van Gelder |
| Art Is... (1971) | Julian Krainin, DeWitt Sage |
| Numbers Start with the River, The (1971) | Donald Wrye |
| Somebody Waiting (1971) | Hal Riney (I), Dick Snider, Woody Omens |
| 1971 | Winner | Woodstock (1970) | Bob Maurice | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (1970) | Harald Reinl |
| Jack Johnson (1970) | Jim Jacobs (I) |
| King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) | Ely A. Landau |
| Say Goodbye (1971) | David H. Vowell |
| 1971 | Winner | Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1971) | Joseph Strick | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Gifts, The (1970) | Robert D. McBride |
| Long Way from Nowhere, A (1970) | Bob Aller |
| Oisin (1970) | Vivien Carey, Patrick Carey (I) |
| Time Is Running Out (1970) | Horst Dallmayr, Robert Ménégoz |
| 1970 | Winner | Amour de la vie - Artur Rubinstein, L' (1969) | Bernard Chevry | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Before the Mountain Was Moved (1970) | Robert K. Sharpe |
| In the Year of the Pig (1968) | Emile de Antonio |
| Olimpiada en México (1969) | unknown |
| Wolf Men, The (1969) | Irwin Rosten |
| 1970 | Winner | Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969) | Denis Sanders, Robert M. Fresco | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer, An (1969) | Donald Wrye |
| Jenny Is a Good Thing (1969) | Joan Horvath (I) |
| Leo Beuerman (1969) | Arthur H. Wolf, Russell A. Mosser |
| Magic Machines, The (1969) | Joan Keller Stern |
| 1969 | Winner | Journey Into Self (1968) | Bill McGaw | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Few Notes on Our Food Problem, A (1968) | James Blue |
| Legendary Champions (1968) | William Cayton |
| Other Voices (1970) | David H. Sawyer |
| Young Americans (1967) | Robert Cohn (I), Alexander Grasshoff |
| 1969 | Winner | Why Man Creates (1968) | Saul Bass | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | House That Ananda Built, The (1968) | Fali Bilimoria |
| Revolving Door, The (1968) | Lee R. Bobker |
| Space to Grow, A (1968) | Thomas P. Kelly Jr. |
| Way Out of the Wilderness, A (1968) | Dan E. Weisburd |
| 1968 | Winner | Section Anderson, La (1967) | Pierre Schoendoerffer | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Festival (1967) | Murray Lerner (I) |
| Harvest (1967) | Carroll Ballard |
| King's Story, A (1965) | Jack Levin (I) |
| Time for Burning, A (1967) | Bill Jersey |
| 1968 | Winner | Redwoods, The (1967) | Mark Harris (VI), Trevor Greenwood (I) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Monument to the Dream (1967) | Charles Guggenheim |
| Place to Stand, A (1967) | Christopher Chapman (I) |
| See You at the Pillar (1967) | Robert Fitchet |
| While I Run This Race (1967) | Carl V. Ragsdale |
| 1967 | Winner | War Game, The (1965) | Peter Watkins | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Face of a Genius, The (1966) | Alfred R. Kelman |
| Helicopter Canada (1966) | Peter Jones (III), Tom Daly (I) |
| Really Big Family, The (1966) | Alexander Grasshoff |
| Volcan interdit, Le (1966) | Haroun Tazieff |
| 1967 | Winner | Year Toward Tomorrow, A (1966) | Edmond Levy (I) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Adolescence (1966) | Marin Karmitz, Vladimir Forgency |
| Cowboy (1966) | Michael Ahnemann, Gary Schlosser |
| Odds Against, The (1966) | Lee R. Bobker, Helen Kristt Radin |
| Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából (1966) | unknown |
| 1966 | Winner | Eleanor Roosevelt Story, The (1965) | Sidney Glazier | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles, The (1965) | Laurence E. Mascott |
| Forth Road Bridge, The (1965) | Peter Mills (I) |
| Let My People Go: The Story of Israel (1965) (TV) | Marshall Flaum |
| Mourir à Madrid (1963) | Frédéric Rossif |
| 1966 | Winner | To Be Alive! (1964) | Francis Thompson (I) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Mural on Our Street (1965) | Kirk Smallman |
| Nyitany (1965) | unknown |
| Point of View (1965) |
| Yeats Country (1965) | Patrick Carey (I), Joe Mendoza (III) |
| 1965 | Winner | Monde sans soleil, Le (1964) | Jacques-Yves Cousteau | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | 14-18 (1963) | Jean Aurel (I) |
| Alleman (1963) | Bert Haanstra |
| Finest Hours, The (1964) | Jack (as Jack Le Vien) Levin (I) |
| Four Days in November (1964) | Mel Stuart |
| 1965 | Winner | Nine from Little Rock (1964) | unknown | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | 140 Days Under the World (1964) | Geoffrey Scott (III), Oxley Hughan |
| Breaking the Habit (1964) | Henry Jacobs (II), John Korty |
| Children Without (1964) | unknown |
| Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak (1964) |
| 1964 | Winner | Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) | Robert Hughes (IV) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Maillon et la chaîne, Le (1963) | Paul de Roubaix |
| Yanks Are Coming, The (1963) | Marshall Flaum |
| 1964 | Winner | Chagall (1964) | Simon Schiffrin | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Five Cities of June, The (1963) | George Stevens Jr. |
| Spirit of America, The (1963) | Algernon G. Wlaker |
| Thirty Million Letters (1963) | Edgar Anstey |
| To Live Again (1963) | Mel London |
| 1963 | Winner | Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962) | Louis Clyde Stoumen | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Alvorada (1962) | Hugo Niebeling |
| 1963 | Winner | Dylan Thomas (1962) | Jack Howells | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | John Glenn Story, The (1962) | William L. Hendricks |
| Road to the Wall, The (1962) | Robert Saudek |
| 1962 | Winner | Ciel et la boue, Le (1961) | Arthur Cohn, René Lafuite | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Grande olimpiade, La (1961) | unknown |
| 1962 | Winner | Project Hope (1961) | Frank P. Bibas | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Breaking the Language Barrier (1961) | unknown |
| Cradle of Genius (1961) | Jim O'Connor (I), Tom Hayes (II) |
| Kahl (1961) | unknown |
| Uomo in grigio, L' (1961) | Benedetto Benedetti |
| 1961 | Winner | Horse with the Flying Tail, The (1960) | Larry Lansburgh | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Rebel in Paradise (1960) | Robert D. Fraser |
| 1961 | Winner | Giuseppina (1960) | James Hill (I) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Beyond Silence (1960) | unknown |
| By ved navn København, En (1960) |
| George Grosz' Interregnum (1960) | Charles Carey (I), Altina Carey |
| Universe (1960) | Colin Low |
| 1960 | Winner | Serengeti darf nicht sterben (1959) | Bernhard Grzimek | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Race for Space, The (1959) (TV) | David L. Wolper |
| 1960 | Winner | Glas (1958) | Bert Haanstra | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) | Walt Disney |
| From Generation to Generation (1959) | Edward F. Cullen |
| 1959 | Winner | White Wilderness (1958) | Ben Sharpsteen | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Antarctic Crossing (1958) | James Carr (I) |
| Hidden World, The (1958) | Robert Snyder (I) |
| Psychiatric Nursing (1958) | Nathan Zucker |
| 1959 | Winner | Ama Girls (1958) | Ben Sharpsteen | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Employees Only (1958) | Kenneth G. Brown (I) |
| Journey Into Spring (1958) | Ian Ferguson (I) |
| Living Stone, The (1958) | Tom Daly (I) |
| Oeuverture (1958) | Thorold Dickinson |
| 1958 | Winner | Albert Schweitzer (1957) | Jerome Hill | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | On the Bowery (1957) | Lionel Rogosin |
| Torero (1956) | Manuel Barbachano Ponce |
| 1957 | Winner | Monde du silence, Le (1956) | Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
| Nominated | Hvor bjergene sejler (1955) | unknown |
| Naked Eye, The (1956) | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
| 1957 | Winner | True Story of the Civil War, The (1957) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | "Disneyland" (1954) {Man in Space (#1.20)} | Ward Kimball |
| City Decides, A (1956) | unknown |
| Dark Wave, The (1956) | John Healy (III) |
| House Without a Name, The (1956) | Valentine Davies |
| 1956 | Winner | Unconquered, The (1954) | Nancy Hamilton (I) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Crèvecoeur (1955) | René Risacher |
| 1956 | Winner | Men Against the Arctic (1955) | Walt Disney | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Battle of Gettysburg, The (1955) | Dore Schary |
| Face of Lincoln, The (1956) | Wilbur T. Blume |
| 1955 | Winner | Vanishing Prairie, The (1954) | Walt Disney | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Stratford Adventure, The (1954) | Guy Glover |
| 1955 | Winner | Thursday's Children (1954) | unknown | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Jet Carrier (1954) | Otto Lang (I) |
| Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait (1954) | Morrie Roizman |
| 1954 | Winner | Living Desert, The (1953) | Walt Disney | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Conquest of Everest, The (1953) | John Taylor (XII), Leon Clore, Grahame Tharp |
| Queen Is Crowned, A (1953) | Castleton Knight |
| 1954 | Winner | Alaskan Eskimo, The (1953) | Walt Disney | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Living City, The (1953) | John Barnes (I) |
| Operation Blue Jay (1953) | unknown |
| They Planted a Stone (1953) | James Carr (I) |
| Word, The (1953) | John Healy (III), John Adams (III) |
| 1953 | Winner | Sea Around Us, The (1953) | Irwin Allen (I) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Hoaxters, The (1952) | Dore Schary |
| Navajo (1952) | Hall Bartlett |
| 1953 | Winner | Neighbours (1952) | Norman McLaren | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Devil Take Us (1952) | Herbert Morgan |
| Epeira Diadema (1952) | Alberto Ancillotto |
| Man Alive! (1952) | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1952 | Winner | Kon-Tiki (1950) | Olle Nordemar | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Bryan Foy |
| 1952 | Winner | Benjy (1951) | Fred Zinnemann | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | One Who Came Back (1951) | Owen Crump |
| Seeing Eye, The (1951) | Gordon Hollingshead |
| 1951 | Winner | Titan: Story of Michelangelo, The (1950) | Robert Snyder (I) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | With These Hands (1950) | Jack Arnold (I), Lee Goodman (II) |
| 1951 | Winner | Why Korea? (1951) | Edmund Reek | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Fight: Science Against Cancer, The (1950) | unknown |
| Stairs, The (1950) |
| 1950 | Winner | Daybreak in Udi (1949) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Kenji Comes Home (1949) | Paul F. Heard |
| 1950 | Winner | Chance to Live, A (1949) | Richard De Rochemont | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| So Much for So Little (1949) | Edward Selzer |
| Nominated | 1848 (1949) | unknown |
| Rising Tide, The (1949) |
| 1949 | Winner | Secret Land, The (1948) | Orville O. Dull | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Quiet One, The (1948) | Janice Loeb |
| 1949 | Winner | Toward Independence (1948) | unknown | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Heart to Heart (1949) | Herbert Morgan |
| Operation Vittles (1948) | unknown |
| 1948 | Winner | Design for Death (1947) | Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard Fleischer | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Journey Into Medicine (1947) | unknown |
| World Is Rich, The (1947) | Paul Rotha |
| 1948 | Winner | First Steps (1947) | unknown | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Passport to Nowhere (1947) | Frederic Ullman Jr. |
| School in the Mailbox (1947) | unknown |
| 1947 | Winner | Seeds of Destiny (1946) |
| Nominated | Atomic Power (1946) |
| Life at the Zoo (1946) |
| Paramount News Issue #37 (1946) |
| Traffic with the Devil (1946) |
| 1946 | Winner | True Glory, The (1945) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Last Bomb, The (1945) |
| 1946 | Winner | Hitler Lives (1945) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Library of Congress (1945) |
| To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945) |
| 1945 | Winner | Fighting Lady, The (1944) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944) |
| 1945 | Winner | With the Marines at Tarawa (1944) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Hymn of the Nations (1944) |
| New Americans (1944) |
| 1944 | Winner | Desert Victory (1943) | Best Documentary, Features |
| Nominated | Baptism of Fire (1943) |
| Battle of Russia, The (1943) |
| Report from the Aleutians (1943) |
| War Department Report (1943) |
| 1944 | Winner | December 7th (1943) | Best Documentary, Short Subjects |
| Nominated | Children of Mars (1943) |
| Plan for Destruction (1943) |
| Swedes in America (1943) |
| To the People of the United States (1943) |
| Tomorrow We Fly (1943) |
| Youth in Crisis (1943) |
| 1943 | Winner | Battle of Midway, The (1942) | Best Documentary |
| Kokoda Front Line! (1942) |
| Moscow Strikes Back (1942) |
| Prelude to War (1943) |
| Nominated | Africa, Prelude to Victory (1942) |
| Combat Report (1942) |
| Grain That Built a Hemisphere, The (1943) | Walt Disney |
| Henry Browne, Farmer (1942) | unknown |
| High Over the Borders (1942) |
| High Stakes in the East (1942) |
| Inside Fighting China (1942) |
| It's Everybody's War (1942) |
| Listen to Britain (1942) |
| Little Belgium (1942) |
| Little Isles of Freedom (1942) | Victor Stoloff, Edgar Loew |
| Mister Gardenia Jones (1942) | unknown |
| Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942) |
| New Spirit, The (1942) | Walt Disney |
| Paramount Victory Short No. T2-2: We Refuse to Die (1942) | William C. Thomas |
| Paramount Victory Short No. T2-3: The Price of Victory (1942) | unknown |
| RKO Victory Special No. 34-201: Conquer by the Clock (1942) | Frederic Ullman Jr. |
| Ship Is Born, A (1942) | unknown |
| Twenty-One Miles (1942) |
| White Eagle, The (1942) |
| Winning Your Wings (1942) |
| 1942 | Winner | Churchill's Island (1941) |
| Nominated | Adventure in the Bronx (1941) |
| Bomber (1941) |
| Christmas Under Fire (1941) |
| Letter from Home, A (1941) |
| Life of a Thoroughbred (1941) |
| Norway in Revolt (1941) |
| Place to Live, A (1941) |
| Russian Soil (1941) |
| Soldiers of the Sky (1941) |
| War Clouds in the Pacific (1941) |
