Every year around Oscar nomination time, there are at least 10 recognized films the general public will have never heard of: the five live-action and five animated shorts nominated in the Academy’s “Best Short Film” categories. But it doesn’t have to be that way anymore. The Michigan Theater is currently screening all the 2009 Oscar-nominated short films in two separate programs or one combined, discounted program. The Daily picks apart the best and worst from this cinematic smorgasbord.