{"id":70503,"date":"2026-03-16T03:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/all-the-empty-rooms-wins-oscar-for-steve-hartmans-project-memorializing-children-killed-in-school-shootings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T03:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:11:32","slug":"all-the-empty-rooms-wins-oscar-for-steve-hartmans-project-memorializing-children-killed-in-school-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/all-the-empty-rooms-wins-oscar-for-steve-hartmans-project-memorializing-children-killed-in-school-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All the Empty Rooms&#8221; wins Oscar for Steve Hartman&#8217;s project memorializing children killed in school shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The documentary &#8220;All the Empty Rooms,&#8221; which memorialized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/rooms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">children killed in school shootings<\/a>\u00a0through a look at the bedrooms they never returned to, took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/steve-hartman-documenting-bedrooms-of-kids-killed-school-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman<\/a><\/span> and photographer\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/portrait-of-child-photographer-lou-bopp-steve-hartman-photo-project\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Lou Bopp<\/a><\/span>\u00a0along their seven-year journey to document the toll of America&#8217;s school shooting epidemic. Director Joshua Seftel accepted the Oscar on stage alongside Hartman, producer Conall Jones and Gloria Cazares, whose daughter Jackie was killed in the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/school-shooting-in-uvalde-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Uvalde school shooting<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The four empty rooms in our film belonged to four young children who were all killed in school shootings: Hallie, Gracie, Dominic and Jackie,&#8221; Seftel told the crowd before passing the mic to Cazares.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing red dress and a pin with an image of Jackie, Cazares spoke of her 9-year-old daughter and appealed for an end to gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since that day, her bedroom has been frozen in time,&#8221; Cazares said. &#8220;Jackie is more than just a headline. She is our light and our life. Gun violence is now the number one cause of death in kids and teens. We believe that if the world could see their empty bedrooms, we&#8217;d be a different America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/16\/7df3458f-5281-44ee-84ad-ba5d4afcff76\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/5c090b98b9327d516b96ae2aaebbd481\/gettyimages-2266317718.jpg#\" alt=\"98th Annual Academy Awards \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/16\/7df3458f-5281-44ee-84ad-ba5d4afcff76\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/5c090b98b9327d516b96ae2aaebbd481\/gettyimages-2266317718.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/16\/7df3458f-5281-44ee-84ad-ba5d4afcff76\/thumbnail\/1240x826g2\/1af8c2a74ba26a01052d536ca38d5e90\/gettyimages-2266317718.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Gloria Cazales, whose daughter Jackie was killed in the Uvalde school shooting, stands alongside film director Joshua Seftel, producer Conall Jones and CBS broadcaster Steve Hartman as they accept the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film for &#8220;All The Empty Rooms&#8221; on March 15, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Robert Gauthier \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Hartman traveled to Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, Cazares told him that people are always telling her that they can&#8217;t imagine what she&#8217;s going through. But she said we need to imagine, and that&#8217;s why she invited Hartman and Bopp into her home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just makes everything more real for the public, for the world,&#8221; <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/steve-hartman-documenting-bedrooms-of-kids-killed-school-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Carazes said at the time<\/a><\/span>. &#8220;Her room completely just speaks of who she was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Jackie&#8217;s room, there was the chocolate she had saved for a day that never came, and an &#8220;About Me&#8221; chalkboard where she wrote that she wanted to be a veterinarian when she grew up.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the children&#8217;s rooms, like Jackie&#8217;s, remained virtually untouched, years after the shootings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their personalities shone through in the smallest details of their untouched rooms \u2014 hair ties on a doorknob, a toothpaste tube left uncapped, a ripped ticket for 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