Nedan följer en lista över vinnare och nominerade av Oscar i kategorin Bästa kortfilm, (Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film). Priset delades för första gången ut på den femte Oscarsgalan. De första fyra åren delades priset upp i bästa kortfilm för komedi och nymodighet, men bytte därefter till enaktare, (kortfilm) och tvåaktare, (novellfilm). År 1936 och 1937 delades även en Oscar ut för bästa kortfilm i färg. Från 1957 till idag delas endast en Oscar ut för bästa kortfilm. Året gäller det året som filmerna kom ut, och parentesen under visar vilken Oscarsgala filmerna blev nominerade på.
1930-talet År Film Producent(er) 1932(5:e) Komedi Pianoexpressen Hal Roach The Loud Mouth Mack Sennett Scratch-As-Catch-Can RKO Radio Stout Hearts and Willing Hands(Diskvalificerad; den här filmen var ursprungligen med bland de nominerade, men diskvalificerades i sista stund och ersattes med en annan film från RKO Radio, Scratch-As-Catch-Can. Det finns än idag ingen tydlig klarhet i varför filmen diskvalificerades. RKO Radio Nymodighet Wrestling Swordfish Mack Sennett Screen Souvenirs Paramount Publix Swing High Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1933(6:e) Komedi So This Is Harris! Lou Brock Mister Mugg Warren Doane A Preferred List Lou Brock Nymodighet Krakatoa Joe Rock Menu Pete Smith The Sea Education 1934(7:e) Komedi La Cucaracha Kenneth Macgowan Men in Black Jules White What, No Men! Warner Bros. Nymodighet City of Wax Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard Bosom Friends Skibo Productions Strikes and Spares Pete Smith 1935(8:e) Komedi How to Sleep Jack Chertok Oh, My Nerves Jules White Tit for Tat Hal Roach Nymodighet Wings Over Everest Gaumont British och Skibo Productions Audioscopiks Pete Smith Camera Thrills Universal 1936(9:e) I färg Give Me Liberty Warner Bros. La Fiesta de Santa Barbara Lewis Lewyn Popular Science J-6-2 Paramount Enaktare Bored of Education Hal Roach Moscow Moods Paramount Wanted – A Master Pete Smith Tvåaktare The Public Pays Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Double or Nothing Warner Bros. Dummy Ache RKO Radio 1937(10:e) I färg Penny Wisdom Pete Smith The Man Without a Country Warner Bros. Popular Science J-7-1 Paramount Enaktare The Private Life of the Gannets Skibo Productions A Night at the Movies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Romance of Radium Pete Smith Tvåaktare Torture Money Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Deep South RKO Radio Should Wives Work? RKO Radio 1938(11:e) Enaktare That Mothers Might Live Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Great Heart Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Timber Toppers 20th Century-Fox Tvåaktare Declaration of Independence Warner Bros. Swingtime in the Movies Warner Bros. They're Always Caught Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1939(12:e) Enaktare Busy Little Bears Paramount Information Please RKO Radio Prophet Without Honor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sword Fishing Warner Bros. Tvåaktare Sons of Liberty Warner Bros. Drunk Driving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Five Times Five RKO Radio
1940-talet
År Film Producent(er) 1940(13:e) Enaktare Quicker'n a Wink Pete Smith London Can Take It! Warner Bros. More About Nostradamus Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Siege RKO Radio Tvåaktare Teddy, the Rough Rider Warner Bros. Eyes of the Navy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Service with the Colors Warner Brothers 1941(14:e) Enaktare Of Pups and Puzzles Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Army Champions Pete Smith Beauty and the Beach Paramount Down on the Farm Paramount Forty Boys and a Song Warner Bros. Kings of the Turf Warner Bros. Sagebrush and Silver 20th Century-Fox Tvåaktare Main Street on the March! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Alive in the Deep Woodward Productions Forbidden Passage Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Gay Parisian Warner Bros. The Tanks Are Coming Warner Bros. 1942(15:e) Enaktare Speaking of Animals and Their Families Paramount Desert Wonderland 20th Century-Fox Marines in the Making Pete Smith United States Marine Band Warner Bros. Tvåaktare Beyond the Line of Duty Warner Bros. Don't Talk Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Private Smith of the U.S.A. RKO Radio 1943(16:e) Enaktare Amphibious Fighters Grantland Rice Cavalcade of Dance Gordon Hollingshead Champions Carry On Edmund Reek Hollywood in Uniform Ralph Staub Seeing Hands Pete Smith Tvåaktare Heavenly Music Jerry Bresler och Sam Coslow Letter to a Hero Frederic Ullman Mardi Gras Walter MacEwen Women at War Gordon Hollingshead 1944(17:e) Enaktare Who's Who in Animal Land Jerry Fairbanks Blue Grass Gentlemen Edmund Reek Jammin' the Blues Gordon Hollingshead Movie Pests Pete Smith Screen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures Ralph Staub Lifeboat Glen MacWilliams Tvåaktare I Won't Play Gordon Hollingshead Bombalera' | Louis Harris |- | Main Street Today| Jerry Bresler |- ! rowspan=13 style="text-align:center" | 1945(18:e)
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Enaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Stairway to Light| Herbert Moulton och Jerry Bresler |- | Along the Rainbow Trail| Edmund Reek |- | Screen Snapshots' 25th Anniversary| Ralph Staub |- | Story of a Dog| Gordon Hollingshead |- | White Rhapsody| Grantland Rice |- | Your National Gallery| Joseph O'Brien och Thomas Mead |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Tvåaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Star in the Night| Gordon Hollingshead |- | A Gun in His Hand| Chester Franklin |- | The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round| Jules White |- | The Little Witch| George Templeton |- ! rowspan=12 style="text-align:center" | 1946(19:e)
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Enaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Facing Your Danger| Gordon Hollingshead |- | Dive-Hi Champs| Jack Eaton |- | Golden Horses| Edmund Reek |- | Smart as a Fox| Gordon Hollingshead |- | Sure Cures| Pete Smith |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Tvåaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | A Boy and His Dog| Gordon Hollingshead |- | College Queen| George Templeton |- | Hiss and Yell| Jules White |- | The Luckiest Guy in the World| Jerry Bresler |- ! rowspan=13 style="text-align:center" | 1947(20:e)
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Enaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Good-Bye Miss Turlock| Herbert Moulton |- | Brooklyn, U.S.A.| Thomas Mead |- | Moon Rockets| Jerry Fairbanks |- | Now You See It| Pete Smith |- | So You Want to Be in Pictures| Gordon Hollingshead |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Tvåaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Climbing the Matterhorn| Irving Allen |- | Champagne for Two| Harry Grey |- | Fight of the Wild Stallions| Thomas Mead |- | Give Us the Earth| Herbert Morgan |- | A Voice is Born| Ben Blake |- ! rowspan=13 style="text-align:center" | 1948(21:a)
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Enaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Människor i stad| Edmund Reek |- | Annie Was a Wonder| Herbert Moulton |- | Cinderella Horse| Gordon Hollingshead |- | So You Want to Be on the Radio| Gordon Hollingshead |- | You Can't Win| Pete Smith |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Tvåaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Pälssälarnas ö (Seal Island)| Walt Disney |- | Calgary Stampede| Gordon Hollingshea |- | Going to Blazes| Herbert Morgan |- | Samba Mania| Harry Grey |- | Snow Capers| Thomas Mead |- ! rowspan=13 style="text-align:center" | 1949(22:a)
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Enaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Aquatic House Party| Jack Eaton |- | Roller Derby Girl| Justin Herman |- | So You Think You're Not Guilty| Gordon Hollingshead |- | Spills and Chills| Walton C. Ament |- | Water Trix| Pete Smith |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Tvåaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Van Gogh| Gaston Diehl och Robert Haessens |- | Boy and the Eagle| William Lasky |- | Chase of Death| Irving Allen |- | The Grass is Always Greener| Gordon Hollingshead |- | Snow Carnival'' Gordon Hollingshead
1950-talet
År Film Producent(er) 1950(23:e) Enaktare Grandad of Races Gordon Hollingshead Blaze Busters Robert Youngson Wrong Way Butch Pete Smith Tvåaktare Bäverdalen (In Beaver Valley) Walt Disney Grandma Moses Falcon Films My Country 'Tis of Thee Gordon Hollingshead 1951(24:e) Enaktare World of Kids Robert Youngson Ridin' the Rails Jack Eaton The Story of Time Robert G. Leffingwell Tvåaktare I vår Herres hage (Nature's Half Acre) Walt Disney Balzac Les Films Du Compass Danger Under the Sea Thomas Mead 1952(25:e) Enaktare Light in the Window: The Art of Vermeer Boris Vermont Athletes of the Saddle Jack Eaton Desert Killer Gordon Hollingshead Neighbours Norman McLaren Royal Scotland Crown Film Unit Tvåaktare Sjöfåglar (Water Birds) Walt Disney Bridge of Time London Films Devil Take Us Herbert Morgan Thar She Blows! Gordon Hollingshead 1953(26:e) Enaktare The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture Johnny Green Christ among the Primitives Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi Herring Hunt National Film Board of Canada Joy of Living Boris Vermont Wee Water Wonders Jack Eaton Tvåaktare I björnskogen (Bear Country) Walt Disney Benjamin och jag Walt Disney Return to Glennascaul Mayer Kingsley, Inc. Vesuvius Express Otto Lang Winter Paradise Cedric Francis 1954(27:e) Enaktare This Mechanical Age Robert Youngson The First Piano Quartette Otto Lang The Strauss Fantasy Johnny Green Tvåaktare A Time Out of War Denis Sanders och Terry Sanders Beauty and the Bull' | Cedric Francis |- | Jet Carrier| Otto Lang |- | Siam| Walt Disney |- ! rowspan=12 style="text-align:center" | 1955(28:e)
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Enaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Survival City| Edmund Reek |- | Gadgets Galore| Robert Youngson |- | 3rd Ave. El| Carson Davidson |- | Three Kisses| Justin Herman |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Tvåaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | The Face of Lincoln| Wilbur T. Blume |- | 24-Hour Alert| Cedric Francis |- | The Battle of Gettysburg| Dore Schary |- | On the Twelfth Day| George K. Arthur |- | Switzerland| Walt Disney |- ! rowspan=10 style="text-align:center" | 1956(29:e)
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Enaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Crashing the Water Barrier| Konstantin Kalser |- | I Never Forget a Face| Robert Youngson |- | Time Stood Still| Cedric Francis |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#91CFF6" | Tvåaktare |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Den skräddarsydda rocken (The Bespoke Overcoat)| Romulus Films |- | Cow Dog| Larry Lansburgh |- | The Dark Wave| John Healy |- | Samoa| Walt Disney |- ! rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1957(30:e)
|- style="background:#FAEB86" | The Wetback Hound| Walt Disney Productions – Larry Lansburgh |- | A Chairy Tale| National Film Board of Canada — Norman McLaren |- | City of Gold| National Film Board of Canada — Tom Daly |- | Foothold on Antarctica| World Wide Pictures — James Carr |- | Portugal| Walt Disney Productions — Ben Sharpsteen |- ! rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1958(31:a)
|- style="background:#FAEB86" | Grand Canyon| Walt Disney Productions — Walt Disney |- | Journey Into Spring| British Transport Films — Ian Ferguson |- | The Kiss| John Hayes (som John Patrick Hayes) |- | Snows of Aorangi| New Zealand Screen Board |- | T Is for Tumbleweed| James A. Lebenthal |- ! rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1959(32:a)
|- style="background:#FAEB86" | The Golden Fish| Jacques-Yves Cousteau |- | Between the Tides| British Transport Films — Ian Ferguson |- | Mysteries of the Deep| Walt Disney Productions — Walt Disney |- | The Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film| Peter Sellers |- | Skyscraper'' Tishman Realty & Construction — Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke och Irving Jacoby
1960-talet