Press room

Hollywood glamour returns to the Barbican with Oscar® Week 2023, which offers cinema lovers the chance to catch up with films nominated in the Best Picture and International Feature Film categories, as well as those competing in the Animated short and Live Action short categories, at this year’s 95th Academy Awards. 

Best Picture Nominees: 

The Banshees of Inisherin (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
(Pay What You Can Screening)
UK/USA & Ireland, Dir Martin McDonagh, 114 min
Fri 10 Mar, 6.15 pm, Cinema 3 

Top Gun: Maverick (12A) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
USA 2022, Dir Joseph Kosinski, 130 min 
Fri 10 Mar, 8.40 pm, Cinema 3

All Quiet on the Western Front (15) + 20 min pre-show footage
Germany 2022, Dir Edward Berger, 147 min
Sat 11 Mar, 11.15 am, Cinema 3 (Parent & Baby screening)
+ Sun 12 Mar, 4.55 pm, Cinema 3

The Fabelmans (12A) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
US 2022, Dir Steven Spielberg 151 min
Sat 11 Mar, 2.20 pm, Cinema 2 

Tár (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
US 2022, Dir Todd Field, 56 min
Sat 11 Mar, 5.20 pm, Cinema 2 

Avatar: The Way of Water 3D (12A) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
US 2022, Dir James Cameron, 193 min
Sat 11 Mar, 7.35 pm, Cinema 3 

Elvis (12A) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
US 2022, Dir Baz Luhrmann, 159 min 
Sun 12 Mar, 7.55 pm, Cinema 3 

Women Talking (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
US 2022, Dir Sarah Polley, 104 min
Mon 13 Mar, 8.15 pm, Cinema 3

Everything Everywhere All At Once (15) (AD) +15 min red carpet archive footage
US 2002, Dirs Dan Kwan + Daniel Scheinert, 139 min
Wed 14 Mar, 8.30 pm, Cinema 3 

Triangle of Sadness (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
Sweden 2022, Dir Ruben Östlund, 150 minutes
Wed 15 Mar, 8.20 pm, Cinema 3 

Best International Feature:

All Quiet on the Western Front (15) + 20m pre-show footage
Germany/ UK/ US 2022, Dir Edward Berger, 208 min 
Sat 11 Mar, 11.15 am, Cinema 3 (Parent & Baby screening)
+ Sun 12 Mar, 4.55 pm, Cinema 3

Close (12A) + 15 min red carpet archive footage 
Belgium/France/Netherlands 2022 dir Lukas Dhont 104 min
Sun 12 Mar, 11am, Cinema 2 (Members’ screening)
+ Mon 13 Mar, 11.45am, Cinema 3 (Parent and Baby screening)

Close will also be available to the public at other times, as it will be screening as part of the Barbican’s new release programme throughout the week.

Argentina, 1985 (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
Argentina/ UK/ US 2022, Dir Santiago Mitre, 140 min 
Thu 16 Mar, 8.15 pm, Cinema 3 

EO (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
Poland/ Italy 2022, Dir Jerzy Skolimowski, 88 min 
Mon 13 Mar, 6.15 pm, Cinema 3 

The Quiet Girl (12A) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
Ireland 2022, Dir Colm Bairéad, 94 min
Thu 16 Mar, 6.15 pm, Cinema 3 

Live Action shorts (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
Tue 14 Mar, 6.10 pm, Cinema 3, total running time: 110 min 

An Irish Goodbye
Ireland + UK, Dirs Tom Berkeley and Ross White, 23 min

Ivalu
Denmark 2022, Dirs Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan, 16 min 

Night Ride
Norway 2020, Dir. Eirik Tveiten, 15 min

The Red Suitcase 
Luxembourg 2022, Dir. Cyrus Neshvad, 18 min

Le Pupille
Italy/US 2022, Dir. Alice Rohrwacher, 37 min

Animated Shorts (15) + 15 min red carpet archive footage
Wed 15 Mar, 6.15 pm, Cinema 3, total running time: 95 min

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Australia 2022, Dir. Lachlan Pendragon, 11 min

Ice Merchants
Portugal/UK/France 2022, Dir. João Gonzalez, 14 min

My Year of Dicks
US 2022, Dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir, 25 min

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
UK 2022, Dir. Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy, 34 min

The Flying Sailor
Canada 2022, Dirs Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, 7 min

For full programme information please go to: 
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/series/oscar-week-2023