Which MGM short film directed by Fred Zinnemann won an Academy Award?

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Fred Zinnemann stands between Marlon Brando, left, in a suit, and Montgomery Clift, right, in a tank top, on the set of From Here to Eternity, with lockers in the background. — Fred Zinnemann (From left to right) Marlon Brando, Fred Zinnemann, and Montgomery Clift on the set of *From Here to Eternity* (1953).

The MGM short film directed by Fred Zinnemann that won an Academy Award is That Mothers Might Live (1938).1

This film, which won the award for best one-reel short subject, was a study of the 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his pioneering efforts in hospital sanitization.1