This Sunday, celebrity fashion will be mocked, pools of nominees will be pored over, and Chris Rock will be unleashed to lambaste an unsuspecting Hollywood. It’s time for the Oscars — that four-plus-hours long glitz fest that transfixes the entertainment world once a year.

While it may seem half a world away from Washington, D.C., at least one local company, State of the Art, Inc., will be among the contenders vying for Academy recognition. State of the Art is nominated in the category of Best Documentary Short Subject for “Autism is a World.” For the D.C.-based multimedia company, it’s a return trip to the Academy Awards, having previously taken home the statuette for 1993’s “Educating Peter.”

Of course, documentaries at the Oscars have been a field for controversy of late, and “Autism Is A World” is stirring up a bit of its own. The film, was written by its subject, the autistic Sue Rubin. She is depicted as having made great strides in communication through the use of a technique called facilitated communication, or FC, in which a helper assists the autistic subject by guiding their hands across a computer keyboard. There are those who put little stock in FC, believing it to be a sort of glorified Ouija board game. In fact, it is the opinion of Lisa Barrett Mann, writing in the Health section of Tuesday’s Post, that FC has been “discredited as a sham.”