The Academy Awards are today -- stay tuned for coverage!

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Can the Ministry tell you how happy we are that the sun is shining today in Los Angeles? ‘Cause it’s Oscars day! And it was cold, wet and windy in Red Carpet Land on Saturday!

We’ll have Academy Awards coverage right here later today and continuing Monday from the Ministry of Gossip crew and a host of our Los Angeles Times compadres -- news off the red carpet, during the show and from the after-parties.

Until we get it fired up here this afternoon, check us out on Twitter. Either follow us @LATcelebs if you’re a veteran tweep, or set a browser tab to www.twitter.com/LATcelebs if you’re a newbie and just refresh the page periodically -- read from the bottom up, and hit ‘more’ to get older tweets. We’ll start slowly, but when the real-time events pick up, so will the tweets. We’ll also have links there to posts on this blog.

Our Golden Globes coverage from January will give you an idea of what to expect: Click here and scroll down for complete coverage, or click the next link to jump into the live-tweet transcript from that day -- with guerrilla pics of dogs and shoes!

Get to the Ministry’s Academy Awards coverage so far via this link: Click! Click!

Want to tell us your favorite movie from this year, and find out what a host of movers and shakers hope will win? This photo gallery -- with meaty quotes included -- is for you.

That’s it! Gotta put on those fancy clothes now and hit the road for Hollywood soon. Hope to see you along the way.

-- Christie D’Zurilla

A new Times database puts readers on the sidewalks of Hollywood, using more than a century of archives to track the lives of the stars, including current Oscar nominees Jeff Bridges, James Cameron, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep.

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