Academy Award Winners and Nominees II

For nearly 100 years the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has presented awards for many aspects of filmmaking and conducts the oldest such ceremony in the world. This will be the second study group featuring films that either were Academy Award winners or non-winning nominees in the Best Picture category. We have included films that both have high ratings among viewers and fit well into an in-person class. Films being considered are: After the Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1936), The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940), Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940), From Here to Eternity (Zinneman, 1953), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb  (Kubrick, 1964), The Graduate (Nichols, 1967), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975), Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975), Network (Lumet, 1976), The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980), On Golden Pond (Rydell, 1981), Dead Poets Society (Weir, 1989), The King's Speech (Hooper, 2010), and Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015). Please join us to view and discuss these masterpieces.