Short animated film is the only Oscar category for which we were able to find all of the films (except one) on YouTube, so we’ve listed the links to each of them below, in no particular order. The live action short films — which are currently playing at theaters around the country — are also available for download on iTunes for about $10.
And the nominees are…

Madame Tutli-Putli
Part 1 and part 2
This short by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski of the National Film Board is probably the favorite. It follows the journey of a young woman on an overnight train that gradually descends into a surrealist nightmare. (Check out the making-of video too.)

I Met the Walrus
This was the only one we couldn’t find, but the trailer looks great. From the description: “In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview…38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.”

Même Les Pigeons Vont Au Paradis
(Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
This short was directed by Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse who used CG animation to tell the story of a priest trying to trick an elderly man into buying a strange afterlife contraption. The ending makes for a cute allegory.

Peter and the Wolf
Part 1, part 2 and part 3
Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman do a new interpretation of Prokofiev’s classic tale with some impressive puppet animation. The run time is about a half-hour, and it is without words — only Prokofiev’s music.

Moya lyubov (My Love)
Part 1, part 2 and part 3
This one’s for the Russian speakers out there (no English subtitles — sorry). The whole thing looks like an impressionist painting.