Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
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The Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film is an Oscar category honoring outstanding non-fiction films of short subject length.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film Context triple: [Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, relatedCategory, Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film]
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A.
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature is a prestigious Oscar category honoring the most outstanding feature-length nonfiction films released each year.
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B.
Golden Bear for Best Short Film
The Golden Bear for Best Short Film is the top short-film prize presented at the Berlin International Film Festival, recognizing outstanding achievement in short-form cinema.
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C.
International Emmy Award for Best Documentary
The International Emmy Award for Best Documentary is a prestigious global television honor recognizing outstanding documentary programs produced and initially aired outside the United States.
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Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons
The Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons was a former Oscar category that honored outstanding animated short films, frequently won by Walt Disney in the early years of the Academy Awards.
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E.
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is an Oscar category honoring feature-length movies produced outside the United States with primarily non-English dialogue.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film Target entity description: The Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film is an Oscar category honoring outstanding non-fiction films of short subject length.
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A.
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature is a prestigious Oscar category honoring the most outstanding feature-length nonfiction films released each year.
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B.
Golden Bear for Best Short Film
The Golden Bear for Best Short Film is the top short-film prize presented at the Berlin International Film Festival, recognizing outstanding achievement in short-form cinema.
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C.
International Emmy Award for Best Documentary
The International Emmy Award for Best Documentary is a prestigious global television honor recognizing outstanding documentary programs produced and initially aired outside the United States.
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D.
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons
The Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons was a former Oscar category that honored outstanding animated short films, frequently won by Walt Disney in the early years of the Academy Awards.
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E.
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is an Oscar category honoring feature-length movies produced outside the United States with primarily non-English dialogue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Academy Award category
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film award ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
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surface form:
Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject
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| awardedFor |
best documentary short film
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outstanding non-fiction short subject ⓘ |
| awardGivenTo |
director of the winning film
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producers of the winning film ⓘ |
| awardLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| awardSymbol |
Academy Awards statuette
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surface form:
Oscar statuette
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| categoryType | short subject ⓘ |
| ceremonyLanguage | English ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| eligibilityCriterion |
must be a documentary
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must meet Academy exhibition or festival requirements ⓘ must qualify as a short film under Academy rules ⓘ |
| field |
cinema
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documentary filmmaking ⓘ |
| firstAwardedAt | 15th Academy Awards ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | documentary film ⓘ |
| hasAwardType | competitive award ⓘ |
| hasDurationConstraint | shorter than feature-length ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | international film industry ⓘ |
| hasMedium | film ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.oscars.org ⓘ |
| hasSelectionStage |
final voting
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nominations ⓘ shortlist ⓘ |
| hasSuperlative | one of the major documentary film Oscars ⓘ |
| hasTopic |
non-fiction cinema
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short subject documentaries ⓘ |
| inception | 1941 ⓘ |
| isPartOfSeries | annual Academy Awards ceremony ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf |
documentary film awards
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short film awards ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | recognizing short-form non-fiction storytelling ⓘ |
| organizer | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| originalName | Best Documentary Short Subject ⓘ |
| partOf |
Academy Award
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surface form:
Academy Awards
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| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| relatedAward |
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature ⓘ Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | voted on by members of the Documentary Branch of the Academy ⓘ |
| sponsor | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| workLength | short film ⓘ |
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