O Oscar á mellor curtametraxe de acción en vivo (Academy Award for Live Action Short Film) é un premio entregado pola Academia das Artes e das Ciencias Cinematográficas como parte dos premios Oscar. Entrégase dende a 5ª edición dos Óscar. A Academia define curtametraxe como un filme de "non máis de corenta minutos, incluíndo todos os créditos".Rule Nineteen: Short Films Awards. Consultado o 27 de marzo de 2010.
Entre 1932 e 1935 a categoría estaba dividida en"Mellor curtametraxe, comedia" ("Best Short Subject, comedy") e "Mellor curtametraxe, novidade" ("Best Short Subject, novelty"). Dende 1936 ata 1956 estaba dividida en "Mellor curtametraxe, un rolo" ("Best Short Subject, One-reel") e "Mellor curtametraxe, dous rolos" ("Best Short Subject, Two-reel"), ademais de "Mellor curtametraxe, cor" ("Best Short Subject, color"), que se entregou aos filmes de 1936 e 1937. Dende 1957 a 1970 chamouse "Curtametraxe, acción en vivo" ("Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects") e ata 1973 foi "Curtametraxe, filmes de acción en vivo" ("Short Subjects, Live Action Films"). Desde 1974 recibe o nome actual.
1930 1932 (5ª)(Comedia) The Music Box — Hal RoachThe Loud Mouth — Mack Sennett Scratch-As-Catch-Can — RKO Radio Stout Hearts and Willing Hands — RKO Radio (descualificado)Este filme foi anunciado inicialmente como un dos candidatos da categoría, mais antes de votación final foi descualificado e substituído por outra curtametraxe de RKO Radio, Scratch-As-Catch-Can. Non existe documentación no rexistro da Academia sobre o motivo da descualificación.(Novidade) Wrestling Swordfish — Mack SennettScreen Souvenirs — Paramount Publix Swing High — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer1933 (6ª) (Comedia) So This Is Harris! — Lou Brock Mister Mugg — Warren Doane A Preferred List — Lou Brock (Novidade) Krakatoa — Joe Rock Menu — Pete Smith The Sea — Education 1934 (7ª)(Comedia) La Cucaracha — Kenneth MacgowanMen in Black — Jules White What, No Men! — Warner Bros.(Novidade) City of Wax — Horace Woodard, Stacy WoodardBosom Friends — Skibo Productions Strikes and Spares — Pete Smith1935 (8ª) (Comedia) How to Sleep — Jack ChertokOh, My Nerves — Jules White Tit for Tat — Hal Roach(Novidade) Wings Over Everest — Gaumont British e Skibo ProductionsAudioscopiks — Pete Smith Camera Thrills — Universal1936 (9ª) (Cor) Give Me Liberty — Warner Bros.La Fiesta de Santa Barbara — Lewis LewynPopular Science J-6-2 — Paramount (Un rolo) Bored of Education — Hal RoachMoscow Moods — ParamountWanted – A Master — Pete Smith (Dous rolos) The Public Pays — Metro-Goldwyn-MayerDouble or Nothing — Warner Bros.Dummy Ache — RKO Radio 1937 (10ª)(Cor) Penny Wisdom — Pete SmithThe Man Without a Country — Warner Bros. Popular Science J-7-1 — Paramount(Un rolo) The Private Life of the Gannets — Skibo ProductionsA Night at the Movies — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Romance of Radium — Pete Smith(Dous rolos) Torture Money — Metro-Goldwyn-MayerDeep South — RKO Radio Should Wives Work? — RKO Radio1938 (11ª) (Un rolo) That Mothers Might Live — Metro-Goldwyn-MayerThe Great Heart — Metro-Goldwyn-MayerTimber Toppers — 20th Century-Fox (Dous rolos) Declaration of Independence — Warner Bros.Swingtime in the Movies — Warner Bros.They're Always Caught — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1939 (12ª)(Un rolo) Busy Little Bears — ParamountInformation Please — RKO Radio Prophet Without Honor — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sword Fishing — Warner Bros.(Dous rolos) Sons of Liberty — Warner Bros.Drunk Driving — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Five Times Five — RKO Radio
1940 1940 (13ª) (Un rolo) Quicker'n a Wink — Pete SmithLondon Can Take It! — Warner Bros.More About Nostradamus — Metro-Goldwyn-MayerSiege — RKO Radio (Dous rolos) Teddy, the Rough Rider — Warner Bros. Eyes of the Navy — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Service with the Colors — Warner Brothers 1941 (14ª)(Un rolo) 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(Dous rolos) 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 (15ª) (Un rolo) Speaking of Animals and Their Families — Paramount Desert Wonderland — 20th Century-Fox Marines in the Making — Pete Smith United States Marine Band — Warner Bros. (Dous rolos) Beyond the Line of Duty — Warner Bros. Don't Talk — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Private Smith of the U.S.A. — RKO Radio 1943 (16ª)(Un rolo) Amphibious Fighters — Grantland Rice Cavalcade of Dance — Gordon Hollingshead Champions Carry On — Edmund Reek Hollywood in Uniform — Ralph Staub Seeing Hands — Pete Smith (Dous rolos) Heavenly Music — Jerry Bresler, Sam Coslow Letter to a Hero — Frederic Ullman Mardi Gras — Walter MacEwen Women at War — Gordon Hollingshead1944 (17ª) (Un rolo) Who's Who in Animal Land — Jerry FairbanksBlue Grass Gentlemen — Edmund ReekJammin' the Blues — Gordon HollingsheadMovie Pests — Pete SmithScreen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures — Ralph Staub (Dous rolos) I Won't Play — Gordon HollingsheadBombalera — Louis Harris Main Street Today — Jerry Bresler 1945 (18ª)(Un rolo) Stairway to Light — Herbert Moulton, Jerry BreslerAlong 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 e Thomas Mead(Dous rolos) 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 Templeton1946 (19ª) (Un rolo) Facing Your Danger — Gordon HollingsheadDive-Hi Champs — Jack EatonGolden Horses — Edmund ReekSmart as a Fox — Gordon HollingsheadSure Cures — Pete Smith (Dous rolos) 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 (20ª)(Un rolo) Good-Bye Miss Turlock — Herbert MoultonBrooklyn, U.S.A. — Thomas Mead Moon Rockets — Jerry Fairbanks Now You See It — Pete Smith So You Want to Be in Pictures — Gordon Hollingshead(Dous rolos) 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 Blake1948 (21ª) (Un rolo) Symphony of a City — Edmund H. ReekAnnie Was a Wonder — Herbert MoultonCinderella Horse — Gordon HollingsheadSo You Want to Be on the Radio — Gordon HollingsheadYou Can't Win — Pete Smith (Dous rolos) Seal Island — Walt Disney Calgary Stampede — Gordon Hollingshead Going to Blazes — Herbert Morgan Samba Mania — Harry Grey Snow Capers — Thomas Mead 1949 (22ª)(Un rolo) Aquatic House Party — Jack EatonRoller Derby Girl — Justin Herman So You Think You're Not Guilty — Gordon Hollingshead Spills and Chills — Walton C. Ament Water Trix — Pete Smith(Dous rolos) Van Gogh — Gaston Diehl, 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 1950 (23ª) (Un rolo) Grandad of Races — Gordon HollingsheadBlaze Busters — Robert YoungsonWrong Way Butch — Pete Smith (Dous rolos) In Beaver Valley — Walt Disney Grandma Moses — Falcon Films My Country 'Tis of Thee — Gordon Hollingshead 1951 (24ª)(Un rolo) World of Kids — Robert YoungsonRidin' the Rails — Jack Eaton The Story of Time — Robert G. Leffingwell(Dous rolos) Nature's Half Acre — Walt Disney Balzac — Les Films Du Compass Danger Under the Sea — Thomas Mead1952 (25ª) (Un rolo) Light in the Window: The Art of Vermeer — Boris VermontAthletes of the Saddle — Jack EatonDesert Killer — Gordon HollingsheadNeighbours — National Film Board of Canada — Norman McLarenRoyal Scotland — Crown Film Unit (Dous rolos) Water Birds — Walt Disney Bridge of Time — London Films Devil Take Us — Herbert Morgan Thar She Blows! — Gordon Hollingshead 1953 (26ª)(Un rolo) The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture — Johnny GreenChrist among the Primitives — Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi Herring Hunt — National Film Board of Canada Joy of Living — Boris Vermont Wee Water Wonders — Jack Eaton (Dous rolos) Bear Country — Walt Disney Ben and Me — Walt Disney Return to Glennascaul — Mayer Kingsley, Inc. Vesuvius Express — Otto Lang Winter Paradise — Cedric Francis1954 (27ª) (Un rolo) This Mechanical Age — Robert YoungsonThe First Piano Quartette — Otto LangThe Strauss Fantasy — Johnny Green (Dous rolos) A Time Out of War — Denis Sanders, Terry Sanders Beauty and the Bull — Cedric Francis Jet Carrier — Otto Lang Siam — Walt Disney 1955 (28ª)(Un rolo) Survival City — Edmund ReekGadgets Galore — Robert Youngson 3rd Ave. El — Carson Davidson Three Kisses — Justin Herman(Dous rolos) 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 Disney1956 (29ª) (Un rolo) Crashing the Water Barrier — Konstantin KalserI Never Forget a Face — Robert YoungsonTime Stood Still — Cedric Francis (Dous rolos) The Bespoke Overcoat — Romulus Films Cow Dog — Larry Lansburgh The Dark Wave — John Healy Samoa — Walt Disney 1957 (30ª) The Wetback Hound — Walt Disney Productions — Larry LansburghA Chairy Tale — National Film Board of Canada — Norman McLarenCity of Gold — National Film Board of Canada — Tom DalyFoothold on Antarctica — World Wide Pictures — James CarrPortugal — Walt Disney Productions — Ben Sharpsteen 1958 (31ª) Grand Canyon — Walt Disney Productions — Walt DisneyJourney Into Spring — British Transport Films — Ian Ferguson The Kiss — John Patrick HayesSnows of Aorangi — New Zealand Screen BoardT Is for Tumbleweed — James A. Lebenthal 1959 (32ª) Histoire d’un poisson rouge — Jacques-Yves CousteauBetween the Tides — British Transport Films — Ian FergusonMysteries of the Deep — Walt Disney Productions — Walt DisneyThe Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film — Peter SellersSkyscraper — Tishman Realty & Construction — Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke e Irving Jacoby
1960 1960 (33ª) Day of the Painter — Ezra R. BakerThe Creation of Woman — Charles F. Schwep e Ismail MerchantIslands of the Sea — Walt Disney Productions — Walt DisneyA Sport Is Born — Paramount — Leslie Winik 1961 (34ª) Seawards the Great Ships — Templar Film StudiosBallon Vole (Play Ball!) — Ciné-DocumentsThe Face of Jesus — Dr. John D. JenningsRooftops of New York — Robert GaffneyVery Nice, Very Nice — National Film Board of Canada 1962 (35ª) Heureux Anniversaire — Pierre Étaix, Jean-Claude CarrièreBig City Blues — Martina Huguenot van der Linden e Charles Huguenot van der LindenThe Cadillac — Robert ClouseThe Cliff Dwellers (tamén titulado One Plus One) — Hayward AndersonPan — Herman van der Horst 1963 (36ª) La Rivière du hibou — Paul De Roubaix, Marcel IchacThe Concert — Ezra BakerHome-Made Car — BP — James HillSix-Sided Triangle — Christopher MilesThat's Me — Walker Stuart 1964 (37ª) Casals Conducts: 1964 — Edward SchreiberHelp! My Snowman's Burning Down — Carson DavidsonThe Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes — Robert Clouse 1965 (38ª) Le Poulet — Claude BerriFortress of Peace — Lothar WolffSkaterdater — Marshal Backlar e Noel BlackSnow — British Transport Films — Geoffrey Jones, Edgar AnsteyTime Piece — Jim Henson 1966 (39ª) Wild Wings — British Transport Films — Edgar AnsteyTurkey the Bridge — Derek WilliamsThe Winning Strain — Leslie Winik 1967 (40ª) A Place to Stand — Christopher Chapman — Filme do Pavillón de Ontario na Expo 67. Paddle to the Sea — National Film Board of Canada — Julian BiggsSky over Holland — John FernoStop, Look and Listen — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — Len Janson e Chuck Menville