The documentary short "All the Empty Rooms" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 98th Academy Awards in 2026. The film follows CBS News reporter Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they spent seven years documenting the empty rooms of children killed in school shootings in the US. It represents the four rooms of the children: Hallie, Gracie, Dominic and Jackie, which the parents left in the state in which the children left the house for the last time. Director Joshua Seftel accepted the award along with producer Conall Jones and Gloria Cazares, the mother of 9-year-old Jackie killed in the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalda, Texas. Cazares said on stage that her daughter is more than just a headline and called for an end to gun violence. The film highlights the impact of school shootings without directly mentioning the word gun. The project came about after Hartman approached Seftel with the idea of documenting the rooms.[1][2][3][4][5][6]