Best Documentary Short Oscar Winner 2009

Categories: Entertainment | Movies | Oscars 2009
    • Winner: Smile Pinki
    • Presenter: Bill Maher
    • Nominations announced: January 22, 2009
    • Award time: February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. PST
    • Network: ABC
    • Host: Hugh Jackman
    • Voted on by members of the Academy Film and Television Arts and Sciences
    • Last year's winner: Freeheld by Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth

  • Smile Pinki, about an Indian girl with a cleft lip, won the Best Documentary Short Oscar at the Academy Awards Ceremony on February 22, 2009. The other nominees for the award were: The Conscience of Nhem En is about a Cambodian man who as a 16-year-old soldier was required to take photographs of thousands of Cambodians before they were executed during the regime of Khmer Rouge. The Final Inch is about the effort to fight polio around the world. The Witness From the Balcony of Room 306 is about a Reverend who witnessed the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • The Nominees

    1. The Conscience of Nhem En
    2. The Final Inch
    3. Smile Pinki - Winner
    4. The Witness From the Balcony of Room 306

  • Past Winners

    • 2007: Freeheld
    • 2006: The Blood of Yingzhou District
    • 2005: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
    • 2004: Mighty Times: The Children's March
    • 2003: Chernobyl Heart
    • 2002: Twin Towers
    • 2001: Thoth
    • 2000: Big Mama
    • 1999: King Gimp
    • 1998: The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

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