2017 Oscars Preview

The 4^th Annual Oscars Preview: A “Carolina Blue Carpet” Event

In collaboration with the General Alumni Association

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Please join us in walking the Carolina Blue carpet at the Varsity Theatre for our fourth annual Oscars Preview Event.  The nominees and snubs, the trends and outliers, what has changed and what stays the same, are all fair game for our film experts Dana Coen and Rachel Schaevitz.  Watch clips of both the 2016 Best Picture nominees and our panel’s alternative choices.  Get insight into your ballot choices and vote for Best Picture at this informed review of the current movie environment.

6:00-6:45 p.m. Carolina Blue carpet arrivals

6:45-8:30 p.m. Lecture and popcorn

The cost is $10; free for GAA members. For more information and to register go to: here

Couldn’t make it? Download the Oscars Preview PowerPoint here.

Don’t want the PowerPoint? Here’s the list of films that our presenters thought deserved more attention:

• The Fits Directed By Anna Rose Holmer
• Zootopia  Directed By Byron Howard and Rich Moore
• The Handmaiden Directed By Park Chan-wook
• Loving Directed By Jeff Nichols
• The Lobster Directed By Yorgos Lanthimos
• 13th Directed By Ava DuVernay
• Moana Directed By John Musker and Ron Clements
• Mountains May Depart Directed By Jia Zhangke
• 20th Century Women Directed by Mike Mills
• I, Daniel Blake Directed By Ken Loach
• Certain Women
• Sunset Song
• Elle
• Silence
• Toni Erdman
• American Honey
• Paterson
• Eye in the Sky
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• The Witch
• Little Men