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Cara Buckley makes educated Oscar guesses.

We put together a ballot composed of all the prediction-market favorites. You can tweak it as you like.

The service analyzed messages surrounding Oscar nominees, looking at context as well as mentions, and found “Selma” would get best picture if tweets counted.

When asked about the best movie they had seen in the last year, people in a Google survey cited “American Sniper” far more than any other film.

Forget Academy-approved categories like best picture and best director. Here are worthy nominated movies you should see that suit a variety of tastes and worldviews.

Richard Linklater’s valentine to growing up, an early favorite, is now neck and neck with Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s wizardry in the best picture category.

Some A-listers have joined a growing outcry against the objectification of women on the red carpet.

After earning more than $250 million and six Oscar nominations, the movie has spawned diatribes from both hand-wringing lefties and chest-thumping righties.

The director and star of “Boyhood” agree that the main character was much less hip than the actor playing him.

The “Wild” actress says she wasn’t sure she could pull of a role in a film that featured graphic sex and heroin use.

Patricia Arquette says being a single mother as a young actress motivated her to “drag meat back for my young,” developing a steeliness that helped her career.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu made some unorthodox choices as director and a writer of “Birdman.” They appear to have paid off.

Benedict Cumberbatch, the unlikely heartthrob who plays Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game,” has worked his way to stardom playing quirky characters.

On the eve of the Academy Awards, the movie industry faces shrinking screens and studio databases that appear increasingly susceptible to thievery.

Going from a virtual unknown to an awards-season darling can have its rewards, but it can also come with a cautionary tale or two.

The New York Times