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There are a lot of films and we are here to help! We've assembled details and coverage for the 13 films nominated in six major categories — all in one place.

When the New York Post published a freelancer's photograph of a man trapped in the path of an oncoming subway train, many photojournalists, editors and consumers decried the decision as unethical. Others argue that the photo was essential to the story.

An interview with Amy Summers, executive director of the new mentorship organization Mentoring MUSE.

Iconic journalist Studs Terkel was creating a best-seller, when he interviewed people around the U.S. for his book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.

On this week’s 51%, we bring you more of an interview with a woman who aims to balance the masculine/feminine scales, and meet a slam poet whose art form…

2: Band leader WOODY HERMAN. This interview was orginally recorded in May, 1986. Herman was the leader of numerous big bands, all variously called The Thundering Herd. His bands were noted for their dazzling improvisation combined with their incisive ensemble playing. (HERMAN died in 1987)Band leader and clarinetist ARTIE SHAW. In the 1930s and 40s his band ranked with the Goodman, Dorsie, and Miller bands in popularity. But he rejected many of the pop tunes and stuck with music by composers like Porter, Gershwin, and Berlin. SHAW is also known for working with many fine Black musicians and singers, including Billie Holiday. SHAW is now retired from performing. (From an interview recorded in 1985).

The British comedian and actor was on the BBC in an interview that's getting attention because of his views on politics and for how he dominated the conversation.

Author, jazz writer and musician, STUART NICHSON. He is an expert on and biographer of late jazz great ALLA FITZGERALD. THrough interviews with those closest to her,. "Ella Fitzgerald: A Bioography of the FIrst LAdy of Jazz" (1994, Charlse Scribner's SOns) shows the public and private side of the media-shy legend. In her career of over 60 years, she gained the admirationof her contemporaries in the business. At the age of 79 and after years of suffering from diabetes, Fitzgerald died Saturday (JUne 15) at her home in California. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Whitney Dow and Marco Williams, producers/directors of the POV documentary Two Towns of Jasper airing on PBS stations next Wednesday. Dow and Williams talk about how they each directed a separate film crew in Jasper, Tex., during the trials of three white men for the murder of a black man, James Byrd, Jr. He was chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged to death in 1998. Dow's crew of white filmmakers only interviewed white residents of the town. Williams' crew of black filmmakers only interviewed black residents of the town. The deliberate segregation of the film crews allowed residents to speak with a candor seldom seen on camera.

We celebrate the Oscar-winning 1976 film by listening back to archival interviews with Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks.