Hollywood on High

Counted Out investigates the biggest crises of our time through an unexpected lens: math. In our current information economy, math is everywhere. The people we date, the news we see, the influence of our votes, the candidates who win elections, the education we have access to, the jobs we get—all of it is underwritten by an invisible layer of math that few of us understand, or even notice.

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh surroundings, she bonds with the native animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. This year, the film was nominated for 3 Oscars.

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) saves noted Swiss physicist Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) from the Gestapo in Zurich and smuggles him to London.

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh surroundings, she bonds with the native animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. This year, the film was nominated for 3 Oscars.

Winner of 3 Oscars. When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer, small-time con man Schwiefka (Robert Strauss), and Frankie's old drug dealer, Louis (Darren McGavin), re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

This body horror film was nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture. Fading actress Elisabeth Sparkle becomes distressed when her chauvinistic boss fires her from her aerobics show. She soon injects herself with a mysterious serum that promises a younger, better version of herself, but things go horribly wrong.

Aging rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne), a wealthy self-made man, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife, who left him two years previously, suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in her husband -- she wants custody of their daughter.

Oscar and Golden Globe winner for Best Animated Film, the story follows Cat, a solitary animal, whose lush, utopian home is devastated by a great flood that has erased all traces of human existence. He finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. They traverse the difficulties and perils of adjusting to the new environment while traveling through amazing overflowing landscapes.

The inspiring story of the greatest racehorse of all time and the team that helped him succeed. Despite her lack of experience, Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) agrees to take over management of the family Thoroughbred farm after her father (Scott Glenn) becomes ill. Successfully navigating her way through the male-dominated world of horse racing, Chenery, together with veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich), fosters a gifted colt that ultimately crosses the finish line into history as the Triple Crown winner in 1973.

Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature, the film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four activists in what they describe as an act of resistance on the path to justice. The film shows the destruction of a community in the occupied West Bank who had been resisting eviction following the declaration of an Israeli "firing zone" on their land, and the ultimate alliance between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.

Oscar nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. Amid the chaos and destruction of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. Armed with their art, their cameras, and for the first time in their lives, their guns, they capture their idyllic past, uncertain present, and hope for the future.

Oscar nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor (Colman Domingo as Divine G), and winner of many awards, this is the powerful real-life story of a group of incarcerated men who are transformed by the creation of a theatre program within the notorious maximum security prison, Sing Sing. The cast consists mostly of formerly incarcerated men who are alumni of the program.