Oscar Spotlight

To celebrate the biggest night in the Hollywood calendar, we’ve spotlight some previous nominees and winners of the prestigious awards, available to screen through our Booking Scheme now: 20 FEET FROM STARDOM Morgan Neville's won the Oscar for Best Documentary feature at the 86th Academy Awards in 2014, and shines a long-overdue spotlight on the hit-making contributions of longtime backup singers like Darlene Love and Merry Clayton, illuminating a world that lies just beyond the spotlight in a revealing and simultaneously heartbreaking and celebratory documentary. DRIVE MY CAR Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s widely acclaimed modern masterpiece was nominated for four Oscar's in 2022, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and went home with the prestigious award for Best International Feature Film. Based on the Haruki Murakami short story, Drive My Car follows an aging, widowed actor who, despite his initial misgivings, goes on to form a surprising relationship with his new chauffeur. FLORIDA PROJECT Sean Baker's follow up to the much lauded Tangerine tells the story of the summer adventures of two 6-year-old girls, Moonee and Jancey, as their families live on the poverty line in a series of budget motels in Orlando. Willem Dafoe's acclaimed performance as the tender hotel manager was called "his finest performance in recent memory" by The Washington Post and went on to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. MINARI Lee Isaac Chung’s intimate family drama Minari, who have moved from Korea to rural Arkansas in search of their own American dream, connected with audiences around the world becoming one of the most acclaimed films of 2020 and went on to be nominated for an incredible six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score, with Youn Yuh-jung winning for Best Supporting Actress for her warm and tender performance as the matriarch of the family. MOONLIGHT The both first film featuring an all-Black cast and first LGBTQ+ film to ever win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Barry Jenkin's breakout hit Moonlight is told across three chapters, following the life of Chiron, a young gay man who must navigate race, class and the pains and joys of first love in a journey of self discovery. The film was nominated for a further seven awards, also winning for Mahershala Ali's supporting performances and Jenkins' and Tarell Alvin McCraney adapted screenplay. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD Closing his Oslo Trilogy, The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier's is wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning was a cross over success becoming one Mubi's most successful releases in the UK and went on to bag two well deserved nominations for Best International Feature film and a screenplay for the films co-writers Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier.