Apple has added all five Academy Awards-Nominated Short Films (Live Action) to their US iTunes Store for US$1.99 each:

A therapist with six weeks to live adopts brutal honesty as his treatment of choice. A man is confronted by the six-year old son he didn’t know he had. These are the subjects of two short films nominated in the live-action category at this year’s Academy Awards. You can now download all five live-action short film nominees, one of which will be awarded a fabled statuette on Sunday, March 5. An iTunes exclusive.

Click to launch iTunes to see the five nominees in the iTunes Store here.

In related news, Pixar’s “One Man Band” short (not yet available via iTunes) has been nominated for an Academy Award in the “Short Film (Animated)” category this year. These are the first Academy Award nominations for Pixar’s Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews.

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