10. Alfonso Cuaron “Y Tu Mama Tambien” is a great teenage road movie, and Cuaron, who is nominated for writing the film with his brother Carlos, also did a great job directing it. Read more...

Best Picture will win: Chicago should win: The Hours The race is essentially between “Chicago” and “The Hours.” Though “The Hours” is full of great performances and simmering emotion, “Chicago” looks a lot more like what a best picture should be: a box office success, full of applause-worthy great performances, and it’s a respectable period piece hailing from a time-honored Broadway musical. Read more...

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This guy can stand the heat. Louis Horvitz, UCLA alumnus, will direct the Academy Awards for the seventh time this year. He may feel pressure from the breakneck production schedule and the impending telecast’s 3-hour time frame, but experience keeps him cool. Read more...

Bending and twisting, shaking and shouting, 38-year-old actor and comedian John Leguizamo’s mother is spanking him with her chancleta (a flip-flop sandal). With a backdrop of hundreds of twinkling lights, his jerking body moves to a danceable beat. Read more...

Myron Murakami takes the idol worship of “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson to a whole new level. “He kind of looks like a Buddha,” Murakami said. Read more...

When people think of Broadway musicals, they often think of the glitz and glory of tinsel-clad dancers waving glittery top hats and making a singular sensation with every little step they take. Read more...