Here are a bunch of little Oscar-related bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:
Fandango Chief Correspondent Dave Karger joins Access Hollywood with his picks for who should win and who will win this year's big Academy Awards.
Scott Ewing's montage of all the Oscar nominees will get you in the spirit of the awards [via Reddit]:
And this montage of the early roles of 2015's acting nominees will make you understand how far they've come. The Ethan Hawke section is like his very own Boyhood.
TCM's Robert Osborne on the origin of Oscar:
Glen Whipp of the Los Angeles Times explains the Best Picture preferential voting system:
A couple of toddlers re-created all the Best Picture nominees. Below is their version of Birdman. See the rest on their tumblr. [via Daily Mail]
Here's a grand video essay adapted from the grand book by Matt Zoller Seitz on The Grand Budapest Hotel [via Slashfilm]:
Classic Oscar winners, including The Wizard of Oz, Jaws, Jurassic Park, American Beauty and Ratatouille, re-created with stock footage [via Geek Tyrant]:
Today is the 75th anniversary of the release of the Oscar-nominated Tom and Jerry animated short Puss Gets the Boot. Watch it in full below.