Who shared All the Empty Rooms' Documentary Short Oscar with Conall Jones?

Joshua Seftel shared All the Empty Rooms’ Documentary Short Oscar with Conall Jones. The film won Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards.

Seftel directed and produced the 2025 American documentary short, which follows journalist Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they visit bedrooms belonging to children killed in school shootings. The rooms preserve ordinary details—books, clothing, toys, and unfinished lives—turning the film into a memorial as well as a work of reporting.

Conall Jones was one of the film’s producers alongside Seftel, James Costa, Trevor Burgess, and Steve Kerr. This is why the Oscar credit includes several names even though the question asks for the person paired with Jones. A common mix-up is choosing Craig Renaud or Juan Arredondo, who were associated with another documentary-short nominee, Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud.

The film premiered at Telluride on August 31, 2025, and Netflix released it globally on December 1.