Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary

Watch, vote, win: Submit your predictions of the champion during your screening for a chance to be entered in a raffle of fabulous prizes including gift cards to De Fer Coffee & Tea, Eide’s Entertainment, Love Pittsburgh, the Cultural District (including the Harris!) and more!

For the 20th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films for 2024. A stunning showcase of talent and diversity of subjects, we are thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular Documentary short films. Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films the way they were meant to be seen – on the big screen – before the 97th Annual Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, March 2, 2025! Predict the winners and you could win a chance for fabulous prize packages!

Nominations for the 97th Academy Award Documentary Short Films are:

Death by Numbers – Kim A. Snyder, 33 min., USA (in English)

I Am Ready, Warden – Smriti Mundhra, 37 min., USA (in English)

Incident – Bill Morrison, 30 min., USA (in English)

Instruments of a Beating Heart – Ema Ryan Yamazaki, 23 min., Japan (in Japanese)

The Only Girl in the Orchestra – Molly O’Brien, 34 min., USA (in English)

Online sales end 15 minutes prior to showtime. Please visit the Harris Theater box office after this time to purchase tickets.