Oscar Nominated Short Documentaries

If you come to the program of Oscar-nominated documentary shorts at the Coolidge looking to get an edge in this year’s office betting pool, you’ll be disappointed. For reasons pertaining to rights and length, one of the five nominees, “God Is the Bigger Elvis,’’ is not on the bill. (Too bad, too, since this portrait of Dolores Hart, an early-’60s Hollywood starlet who became a nun, sounds fascinating.) (Full review)