WEEKEND TV : Critics Eye Contenders for Oscars

It’s Oscar time and when TV is not handicapping Monday’s big movie show, it will be preoccupied with celebrity.

“Siskel & Ebert: If We Picked the Oscars,” today at 7 p.m. on Channel 7, 1 p.m. on Channel 10, features TV’s most famous film critics’ choices for the film world’s top prize. The show also includes results from a viewer poll covering the major categories.

KCAL airs another Oscar preview today at 6 p.m. as John Corcoran hosts “Your Guide to the Academy Awards.” Howard Stevens, meanwhile, stars tonight at 10 in Channel 2’s “Academy Awards Preview.”

Also tonight at 10 on Channels 4, 36 and 39, “First Person With Maria Shriver” interviews Billy Crystal, the host of the Oscar telecast, as well as John Goodman, world decathlon champion Dan O’Brien and Chinese student activist Chai Ling.

“60 Minutes” will feature some big names of its own Sunday at 7 p.m. (2)(8) with a profile of Steven Spielberg, who is not nominated for any Oscars, an interview with Texas billionaire and possible presidential candidate H. Ross Perot and a report on Henry Kissinger’s influence among the powerful.

Earlier Sunday at 12:45 p.m., the two men vying to be the biggest celebrity within the Democratic party, Gov. Bill Clinton and former Gov. Jerry Brown, square off in a debate in Wisconsin that will be carried live by C-SPAN.