This list focuses on documentaries short subject directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.
| Best Documentary Short Subject | |||||
| Year | Film | Country | Director | Status | Milestone/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence | Robert Amram | Won | (original title: Centinelas del silencio) This was the only time that a short film won the Academy Award in two categories. |
|
| 1980 | Luther Metke at 94 | Jorge Preloran | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | The Crown | Isabel Vega | Nominated | (original title: La corona) | |
Read more about this topic: List Of Latin American Academy Award Winners And Nominees
Famous quotes containing the words documentary, short and/or subject:
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)