The 90th annual Academy Awards are this weekend, and movie buffs are scrutinizing the Oscar nominees for their office pools.

Entertainment journalist and critic Carla Meyer returns to Insight with some Oscars trivia and "By the Numbers" analysis that she wrote up for the LA Times and SF Chronicle this year. You can read Meyer's Oscars coverage here:

• "The best picture Oscar is an inconsistent sign of the times" (SF Chronicle, Feb. 23)

• "Denzel Washington follows in Jack Lemmon's footsteps when it comes to the Oscars" (LA Times, Feb. 20)

• "This year brings the possibility of two actors tying Katherine Hepburn's Oscar record" (LA Times, Jan. 16)