Now that our long national nightmare of striking writers has ended, we can once again look forward to the pageantry, bad jokes, long speeches, and the death montage at the Academy Awards telecast next Sunday. But before you fill out your Oscar Pool [defectiveyeti] maybe you’d like to pretend to be one of the voting members of the academy and watch all of the nominees?

The Varsity comes to your rescue for the short films category. They’re screening all of the live action and animated shorts this weekend. Each program runs an hour and a half; so in the time it would take you to watch There Will Be Blood (which should take best picture, if I had anything to say about it.) you can watch ten short films and then be prepared to cheer along when the winners are forced to accept their statue from some hidden corner of the Kodak Theater.

Animated films at 2:15 & 7:00; live action at 4:15 & 9:00. A list of the nominees [magpictures]; Advance tickets [landmark]

p.s. to see all five best picture nominees, marathon-style, you’ll have to make the trek out to Kent on Saturday the 23rd. [amc]

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1. oscar aftermath
2. Weekend Film Agenda
3. Weekend Movie Agenda, Part One: SFSFF
4. Three Years Is a Charm for Seattle Childrens Film Fest
5. siff watch: fly films