After watching the ten nominees in the Best Live-action Short and Best Animated Short Oscar categories, The Faster Times has a five-point hypothesis on what it takes to make an Oscar nominated short film. The tongue-in-cheek but funny-becasue-it’s-true “recommendations” range from “going with what works” as in A Matter of Loaf and Death, to “flattering the Academy” as in Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty and The Lady and the Reaper, to just “seeming foreign” as all ten nominees do, including French Roast and Logorama.