According to a recent story in Comicbook, Regal Cinemas will continue its recent practise of screening all ten Best Picture nominations for the 95th Academy Awards over the course of ten days before the main Oscar event. In contrast to Netflix’s past Oscar selections, The Power of the Dog, The Irishman, and Mank, the theatre chain will this year also screen All Quiet at the Western Front.
All of the movies will screen three times spread across two different matinee times and one evening show. However James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water will only be shown twice across the ten days, with one discounted show in 3D, making the ticket price a bargain. This year there’s a diverse line-up of movies in the Oscar Best Picture category ranging from box office mega hits like Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick to Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews.
One of the features that made a lot of noise in the past year and was embraced by the Academy in 10 categories is A24’s multiverse spanning Everything Everywhere All At Once. With its high fantasy concept, the feature keeps the tale of an immigrant family in crisis at its core. It has brilliant performances by Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Stephanie Hsu. It was closely followed by Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a World War I epic that is essentially an anti-war movie. Edward Berger sensitively directs the feature, which bagged 9 nominations, that elaborates on the underlying pain and sorrow that ravaged families during wartime. Standing next to it is The Banshees of Inisherin, a darkly comic look at a friendship that unfolds against the backdrop of the Irish civil war, which also earned 9 nominations. The feature is written and directed by Martin McDonagh and features brilliant performances by Collin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, and Brendan Gleeson.
