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...

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...

It may be three months after Christmas, but the Associated Students of UCLA is decking the halls of the student union with student-created artwork. The ASUCLA Student Commissioned Art Program formally introduced four additional art pieces Wednesday to grace the walls of Ackerman Student Union and Kerckhoff Hall. Read more...

During a span of seven years in the 1960s and 1970s, actor Cheng Pei-pei made twenty-some films that redefined the Chinese martial arts film, starting with King Hu’s 1966 film “Come Drink With Me.” “I did a lot of movies but no one recognizes them (as much as) “˜Come Drink With Me,'” Cheng said. Read more...