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After a long awards season, Oscars weekend is finally upon us. The big show is on Sunday. Hopefully you’ve read all the coverage of the nominations and tuned into the awards season controversies. But, if, like me, you still need a quick refresher on everything that’s going on — or if you want to study up for your party ballot — The Times’s movies editor, Stephanie Goodman, has us covered:

I’ve been editing Oscar coverage for longer than I care to admit, and this has been one of the strangest awards seasons I can remember, mainly thanks to the inexplicable moves of the motion picture academy.

It introduced a “popular” film Oscar, only to drop that award less than a month later. It announced a host, Kevin Hart, only to drop that idea a few days later. And to shorten the telecast, it tried a number of measures, including cutting song performances and shifting some categories to commercial breaks, only to drop those plans. (It’s useful to remember that the telecast earns millions of dollars for the academy and ABC, and that it has been shedding viewers in recent years. The thinking is that a tighter ceremony will equal more eyeballs.)

The upshot of all these reversals is that no one knows what to expect on Sunday. But we’ve got some intel.

• Our Oscars expert, the Carpetbagger columnist Kyle Buchanan, has a good idea of who the winners will be. Read his predictions and use them to fill out your Oscar ballot.