Cinefiles and procrastinators rejoice!
Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning and nine movies made the cut for the big kahuna, Best Picture. If you haven't yet managed to catch one — or any — of these top flicks, mark Feb. 18 and Feb. 25 on your calendar now. That's when AMC Theatres will bring back its popular "Best Picture Showcase" marathon event. For the two Saturdays leading up to the live Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, Feb. 26, select AMC multiplexes around the country will show the nominated films back-to-back-to … well, you get the idea. (If you want to find out more, including what it's like to sit through one of these marathon screenings, check out our first-person account here.)
Three Georgia theaters will participate, all of them in metro Atlanta: AMC Parkway Pointe in Atlanta, AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville and AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming. Advance tickets go on sale on Friday, with a $5 discount on tickets for both weekends available on purhcases at theater box offices only (AMC hasn't revealed how much tickets will cost, although last year it was $35 each day).
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No other scheduling information is available yet. Just like half of Hollywood sitting around with its fingers crossed on nomination morning, AMC has to wait and see not just which movies will get Best Picture nods, but also how many. With nine nominated this year, they’ll likely show five on one Saturday and four on the other; but which ones when, and in what order? It takes awhile to get the “‘Lion’ before ‘La La Land’ but after ‘Hacksaw Ridge’” algorithim just right, apparently.
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Another benefit of the BPS is that it also frequently allows you to catch nominees in other major categories as well. This year, for instance, four of the Best Actor and all five of the Best Supporting Actress contendors are in Best Picture nominees (which also account for all of the Best Director nods). Find a complete list of the nominations, as well as the backstory on Atlanta-filmed multiple nominee "Hidden Figures" here.
For more information, visit www.amctheatres.com.
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