Academy Award for Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels

This is a list of short films that have received an Oscar or a nomination for best live action short film that consists of 2 reels.

1930s

*1936 "The Public Pays" - MGM
** "Double or Nothing" - Warner Brothers
** "Dummy Ache" - RKO Radio
*1937 "Torture Money" - MGM
** "Deep South" - RKO Radio
** "Should Wives Work" - RKO Radio
*1938 "Declaration of Independence" - Warner Brothers
** "Swinging in the Movies" - Warner Brothers
** "They're Always Caught" - MGM
*1939 "Sons of Liberty" - Warner Brothers
** "Drunk Driving" - MGM
** "Five Times Five" - RKO Radio

1940s

*1940 "Teddy, the Rough Rider"- Warner Brothers
** "Eyes of the Navy" - MGM
** "Service with the Colors" - Warner Brothers
*1941 "Main Street on the March!" - MGM
** "Alive in the Deep" - Woodward Productions
** "Forbidden Passage" - MGM
** "The Gay Parisian" - Warner Brothers
** "The Tanks are Coming" - Warner Brothers
*1942 "Beyond the Line of Duty" - Warner Brothers
** "Don't Talk" - MGM
** "Private Smith of the U.S.A." - RKO Radio
*1943 "Heavenly Music" - Jerry Bresler, Sam Coslow
** "Letter to a Hero" - Frederic Ullman
** "Mardi Gras" - Walter MacEwen
** "Women at War" - Gordon Hollingshead
*1944 "I Won't Play" - Gordon Hollingshead
**"Bombalera" - Louis Harris
** "Main Street Today" - Jerry Bresler
*1945 "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
*1946 "A Boy and His Dog" - Gordon Hollingshead
** "College Queen" - George Templeton
** "Hiss and Yell" - Jules White
** "The Luckiest Guy in the World" - Jerry Bresler
*1947 "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
*1948 "Seal Island" - Walt Disney
** "Calgary Stampede" - Gordon Hollingshead
** "Going to Blazes" - Herbert Morgan
** "Samba Mania" - Harry Grey
** "Snow Capers" - Thomas Mead
*1949 "Van Gogh" - Gaston Diehl, Robert Haessens and Micki Attridge
** "Boy and the Eagle"- William Lasky
** "Chase of Death" - Irving Allen
** "The Grass is Always Greener" - Gordon Hollingshead
** "Snow Carnival" - Gordon Hollingshead

1950s

*1950 "In Beaver Valley" - Walt Disney
** "Grandma Moses" - Falcon Films
** "My Country 'Tis of Thee" - Gordon Hollingshead
*1951 "Nature's Half Acre" - Walt Disney
** "Balzac" - Les Films Du Compass
** "Danger Under the Sea" - Thomas Mead
*1952 "Water Birds" - Walt Disney
** "Bridge of Time" - London Films
** "Devil Take Us" – Herbert Morgan
** "Thar She Blows!" - Gordon Hollingshead
*1953 "Bear Country" - Walt Disney
** "Ben and Me" - Walt Disney
** "Return to Glennascaul" – Mayer Kingsley, Inc.
** "Vesuvius Express" - Otto Lang
** "Winter Paradise" - Cedric Francis
*1954 "A Time Out of War" – Dennis Sanders, Terry Sanders
** "Beauty and the Bull" - Cedric Francis
** "Jet Carrier" - Otto Lang
** "Siam" - Walt Disney
*1955 "Face of Lincoln" - William Blume
** "24-Hour Alert" - Cedric Francis
** "The Battle of Gettysburg" - Dore Schary
** "On the Twelfth Day" - George K. Arthur
** "Switzerland" - Walt Disney
*1956 "The Bespoke Overcoat" - George K. Arthur
** "Cow Dog" - Larry Lansburgh
** "The Dark Wave" - John Healy
** "Samoa" - Walt Disney

ee also

*Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
*Short Film