Academy Awards

Film critic John Powers considers the Oscar nominees.

Film critic John Powers. He talks with Terry Gross about the actors, directors, and films that won and lost at last night's 69th Academy Awards.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews last night's Academy Awards.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a five-cd set of all of the Oscar winning songs of the last 60 years.

It's Oscar night. New Yorker film critic Terrence Rafferty joins Terry to talk about the best and worst of last year's movies, who deserves to win tonight, and who probably will.

Jeff Yarbrough is a senior editor of the Los Angeles based bi-weekly national gay magazine "The Advocate." He'll tell us what went wrong with the gay rights protest that was supposed to take place during the academy awards ceremony.

Producer Gil Cates. He produced the Academy Awards last night. Terry will talk with him about what it takes to put together such an endeavor.

Park's short, claymation film, "Creature Comforts," won this year's Oscar for Best Animation. It's a five-minute parody of a documentary in which various zoo animals tell the camera how they feel about their living conditions.

Winfield plays the judge in Presumed Innocent -- a part he says is a rare, substantial and mature role for an African American actor. He was nominated for an Emmy for his roles on television in Roots and as Martin Luther King, and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Sounder.

Robert Kaplow and the Punsters return to Fresh Air with a satirical radio play about the Oscar-nominated film Dangerous Liaisons.