The Vindicator’s annual contest to pick the Oscar winners is officially under way (entry

The Vindicator’s annual contest to pick the Oscar winners is officially under way (entry ballot is on page D2). Here are last year’s Oscar winners:

v Best Picture: “Birdman”

v Best Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for “Birdman”

v Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”

v Best Actress: Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”

v Best Original Screenplay: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for “Birdman”

Critics Choice Awards (8 p.m., A&E): T.J. Miller (“Silicon Valley”) hosts the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards because TV and movie stars can never get enough personal validation.

“Angie Tribeca” (9 p.m., TBS): Rashida Jones returns to prime time in “Angie Tribeca.” Created by Nancy and Steve Carell, it’s a goofy cop show spoof that kicks off with an offbeat 25-hour marathon.

“Billions” (10 p.m., Showtime): See story on this page.

“Mercy Street” (10 p.m., PBS): Behold a PBS rarity: an American story, made in America. This enticing costume drama, set in Alexandria, Va., in the spring of 1862, follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposite sides of the Civil War: Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green (Hannah James), a naive young Confederate belle. They collide at Mansion House, a luxury hotel that has been transformed into an army hospital. The story is based on real events.

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Lunch lecture at history center

YOUNGSTOWN

Tricia Perry, WYSU-FM funding officer and a former news reporter for WKBN-TV, will speak about WKBN founder Warren P. Williamson and the early history of broadcasting in Youngstown at noon Thursday at Tyler History Center, 325 W. Federal St., downtown.

Perry’s presentation is part of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society’s Bites and Bits of History lunch series.

Parking is available for $2 in the lot on the west side of the Tyler. Overture restaurant is offering a $6 lunch special; call 330-744-9900 to place your order.

Go to mahoninghistory.org for information.

Future topics in the series include:

Feb. 18: “Steel Town” documentary, by Bill Lawson, executive director of the MVHS. “Steel Town” was shot in Youngstown by the federal government during World War II.

March 17: “Italian Americans of the Greater Mahoning Valley,” by Dr. Martha Palante and Dr. Donna DeBlasio.