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• The Lawsuit Over Producer Credit for 'Crash' Gets Personal
  A top executive of the movie academy described one of the producing team behind the best-picture winner, "Crash," as throwing a tantrum in suing over credit for the film.
• News Analysis: Los Angeles Retains Custody of Oscar
  Los Angeles, a place where race is discussed rarely, saw itself in "Crash," a film where encounter and understanding are just a random fender-bender away.
• 'Crash' Walks Away With the Top Prize at the Oscars
  In a stunning twist, the motion picture academy turned its back on "Brokeback Mountain," awarding the Oscar for best picture to "Crash."
• Fashion Diary: For Designers, an Image-Making Bonanza That Is Priceless
  That everything is borrowed and everyone is shilling may be the most charming characteristic of the Academy Awards show.
• The TV Watch: The Dresses, Low Cut, but the Tones Were Lofty
  The message of the Academy Awards show was a self-congratulatory one from Hollywood to itself: we care, we dare.
• The Long March to the Red Carpet, Slow and Painful
  An Oscar nominee, Bobby Moresco, co-screenwriter of "Crash," prepares himself in the days leading up to the awards.
• Hollywood's Crowd Control Problem
  An expected 41 million Americans will tune into the 78th annual Academy Awards to watch a spectacle largely honoring films they have not seen and may never get around to watching.
• One Last Best Shot at Calling the Oscars
  The problem with choosing this year's Oscar winners is that the possibilities seem as endless and impenetrable as the 64-team grid that ends in the N.C.A.A. championship.
• After an Oscar Nomination, Everybody Loves You (at Least for a While)
  Whether an Oscar nominee's newfound recognition in Hollywood will pay off in future, lasting and top-billed work is a crapshoot.
• Critic's Notebook: Hype-Week Patter as the Oscars Near
  Hollywood's magical ball is Sunday night, and all week television personalities have been fretting and squealing about it, expecting us to watch in supportive awe, like Cinderella.
• 'Crash' Producers Clash Loudly Over Credit and Payment
  A bare-knuckled fight has broken out among the producers of one of the leading Oscar-nominated movies, "Crash," over two of the things Hollywood cares about most: money and credit.
• Critic's Notebook: Brokeback Spoofs: Tough Guys Unmasked
  Online parodies of "Brokeback Mountain" are proliferating faster than curatorial Web sites can keep up with them.
• If You've Got It, Do You Flaunt It?
  What you do with your Oscar, and where it goes in your house, seems to depend largely on where you are in your life.
• The Tease: For Your Consideration: Sappy Hallmark Moments
  The annual Oscar trailer is completely at odds with the idea that Jon Stewart and a crop of untraditional movies might lead to a newer, fresher Oscar show.
• On Education: School Drama Coach Owns a Little Bit of Oscar Night
  John Fredricksen taught the director of "Capote," Bennett Miller, and the film's screenwriter, Dan Futterman, in Mamaroneck, N.Y., in 1984.
• The Underfinanced Production Company: Jon Stewart and the Night Visitor
  It is 3 a.m. and Jon Stewart is anxious. He mutters somthing that sounds like "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid." Than he takes a long swig from a bottle of Stoli.
• David Carr: The Big Man Still Reigns in Hollywood
  If you drill down into this year's best picture nominees, you will find that they are guerrilla insurgencies backed by superpowers.
• Advertising: Huge Audience or Not, Oscars Stand Apart
  This year's crop of nominations has some advertisers worried about the Oscar-night audience.
• Tribal Customs of Oscar
  Unlike typical cocktail soirees, Oscar weekend parties have rules of behavior that fly in the face of conventional manners.
• Careful, These Cartoons Pack a Punch
  In what some animators have complained is less than a vintage year for the Oscars animated short films category, John Canemaker's "Moon and the Son" stands out for its ambition.
• Directions: What She'd Really Like to Do Is Sing
  Kathleen York, an actor-singer-songwriter, gets her close-up at the Academy Awards, where she will perform a song from "Crash."
• Movie Review |'The 2005 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films': Good Things in Small Packages
  Oscar hoopla focuses on feature-length films, but some excellent, largely unseen work is also in competition in the short form.
• The Tease: The Murderous Seductress Is Back
  Maybe the "Basic Instinct 2" trailer is trying to be serious and campy at once, but it only succeeds in being frustrating.
• The Underfinanced Production Company: Penguins Gone Wild
  What happens when Inspector Jacques Clouseau travels to the frozen Antarctic to observe the long, noble march of the Penguins?
• A First-Time Oscar Host in Search of That Fine Line
  Jon Stewart has, at least for one night, signed on to transform himself from Hollywood outsider to A-list insider.
• Robert Altman's Long Goodbye
  Hollywood has never known quite what to make of Robert Altman, but he's finally getting an Oscar anyway.
• Critic's Notebook: Five Oscar Nominees: Foreign, Not Alien
  In this year of politically themed best-picture contenders like "Munich" and "Good Night, and Good Luck," the foreign films have a similar urgency.