Here’s Where You Can Watch Every Oscar-Nominated Short Film

Days before the cinematic elite (or, elitists) at the Academy Awards select the “best” films, filmmakers, cast, and crew of 2015, you’ve probably already decided who you think deserves the big ticket categories like Best Actress, Best Directing, and Best Picture. What you might not know is that the nominations for Short Film (Live Action) and Short Film (Animated) are notably more diverse. With films like Sanjay’s Super Team, which is Pixar’s dive into the imagination of a young Indian boy, and Ave Maria, the tale of an Israeli Jewish family who gets car help from a group of Palestinian nuns, these shorts are more emblematic of the filmmaking’s future than the big Hollywood films that will undoubtedly make headlines Monday morning.

If you’re searching for a bit of fresh Oscar conversation that won’t make you sick, hunker down and watch all ten Oscar-nominated short films, either for free or through video on demand. These shorts have been playing in select theaters for a few months, but now they’re online for the last-minute binge-watchers. The major download platforms are iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, Vimeo On Demand, Comcast, and Verizon, but you can also find them on the websites of most major cable and satellite providers.

Check out the films below, and click here to buy them all in one go.

Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow

Watch here.

Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle, Sanjay’s Super Team

Watch here.

Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont, Ave Maria

Watch here.

Patrick Vollrath, Everything Will Be Okay

Watch here.

Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton, Prologue

Watch here.

Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala, Bear Story

Watch here.

Henry Hughes, Day One

Watch here.

Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage, Stutterer

Watch here.

Konstantin Bronzit, We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

Watch above.

Jamie Donoughue, Shok

Watch here.

Watch all 10 Short Film Oscar nominees on demand here.

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