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| Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film | |
|---|---|
.jpg/500px-MJK_08478_Wes_Anderson_(Opening_Gala_Berlinale_2018).jpg) 2024 co-recipient: Wes Anderson | |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1931 |
| Most recent winner | Wes Anderson Steven Rales The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) |
| Website | oscars.org |
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names, since 1957.
From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, Best Short Subject, One-reel and Best Short Subject, Two-reel, referring to the running time of eligible short films: a standard reel of 35 mm film is 1000 feet, or about 11 minutes of run time. A third category "Best Short Subject, color" was used only for 1936 and 1937. From the initiation of short subject awards for 1932 until 1935 the terms were "Best Short Subject, comedy" and "Best Short Subject, novelty".
These categories were merged starting with the 1957 awards, under the name "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects", which was used until 1970. For the next three years after that, it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films". The current name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974.
Current Academy rules call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film. In the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded".[1] The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits".[2] Fifteen films are shortlisted before nominations are announced.
List of winners and nominees
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
- Short film
- BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
- List of Academy Award–nominated films
Notes
- ^ RKO Radio was announced as a nominee for Stout Hearts and Willing Hands in Best Short Subject (Comedy), but the nomination was disqualified and replaced with RKO's Scratch-As-Catch-Can. The reason for the disqualification is unknown.
- ^ Academy records note that The Cliff Dwellers was previously titled One Plus One.
- ^ A tie in voting resulted in two winners.
- ^ Hallvar Witzø was announced as a nominee for Tuba Atlantic, but the nomination was rescinded by the Academy's Board of Governors in July 2012. The film was ineligible because it aired on Norwegian television in 2010.
Superlatives
For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge:[8]
- Most awards: Walt Disney – 6 awards (resulting from 13 nominations)
- Most nominations: Gordon Hollingshead – 20 nominations (resulting in 5 awards)
References
- ^ (2007). Rule 19, Section III, Paragraph 7 80th Academy Award Rules for Distinguished Achievements Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
- ^ Rule Nineteen: Short Films Awards Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- ^ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^ Anthony Breznican (2014-01-29). "'Alone, Yet Not Alone': The OTHER Oscars nominees who lost their bids". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Norway's Oscar film candidate 'should never have been nominated'". NEWSinENGLISH.no. 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. February 26, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ^ Hipes, Patrick (January 23, 2018). "Oscar Nominations: 'The Shape Of Water' Leads Way With 13". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
- ^ Academy Award Statistics Archived 2009-03-01 at the Wayback Machine