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Barbican Cinema, Barbican Centre Oscar® Week Fri 2 - Thu 8 March 2018, Cinema 2 & 3 barbican.org.uk/whats-on/cinema

For one week only, in celebration of the 90th year of the Academy Awards, the Barbican screens all the films nominated for Best Pic- ture in 2018, along with a showing of all the nominated Live Action Shorts. From historical dramas, to surreal love stories, social cri- tiques, and satires, the series offers an overview of the wide range of works running up for the world-famous award.

In partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci- ences

Get Out (15) Fri 2 Mar 8.45pm, Cinema 3 US/Japan 2017 Dir Jordan Peele 104 min

A genre-defying film embracing horror, comedy, and social cri- tique, Get Out is an impressive debut. When Rose (Allison Wil- liams) invites her boyfriend Chris () for a weekend getaway upstate with her parents, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behaviour as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship. But as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Actor for Daniel Kaluuya

Darkest Hour (PG) Sat 3 Mar 5.40pm, Cinema 3 UK 2017 Dir Joe Wright 125 min Within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill () must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials. With an unprepared public, a sceptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his dark- est hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history. Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Actor for Gary Oldman

Call Me By Your Name (15) Sat 3 Mar 8.20pm, Cinema 3 Italy 2017 Dir 132 min Set during a hot Italian summer in 1983, the film follows 17-year- old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) on holiday with his translator moth- er (Amira Casar) and college professor father (). When research assistant Oliver (Armie Hammer) comes to visit, he and Elio find themselves drawn to each other. Featuring two new tracks by Sufjan Stevens, Guadagnino's adap- tation of André Aciman's coming-of-age novel is a transcendent romance. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet and Best Original Song

The Square (15) Sun 4 Mar 11am, Cinema 3 Sweded//France/Denmark 2017 Dir Ruben Östlund 142 min

The respected curator of a contemporary art museum in Stock- holm, Christian (Claes Bang) wants his gallery to make a splash, and he arrives at the idea of ‘The Square’, an installation inviting passersby into a space where they are encouraged to behave re- sponsibly. But before this can happen Christian has his own sense of civic duty tested when his phone is stolen. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

Young Barbican Screening Sun 4 Mar 11.15am, Cinema 2 Screening of a Best Picture nominee as chosen by the Young Bar- bican members.

The Post (12A) Sun 4 Mar 3.15pm, Cinema 3 US 2017 Dir Steven Spielberg 116 min A timely and gripping exploration of press freedom and political ac- countability, Spielberg’s drama tells the story of how, in 1971, Post editor Ben Bradee (Tom Hanks) and publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) fought the law, the government — and in Graham’s case, open sexism — to publish key parts of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the truth about US involvement in the Vietnam War. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Actress for Meryl Streep

Phantom Thread (15) Sun 4 Mar 5.45pm, Cinema 3 US 2018 Dir 130 min In his final movie performance, Daniel Day Lewis plays fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, living a contained life. When he meets young waitress Alma (Vicky Krieps), his controlled life is challenged by their powerful new love. Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis

Live Action Shorts Programme (15*) Mon 5 Mar 6.30pm, Cinema 3 The programme showcases this year’s Oscar-nominated live ac- tion shorts from around the world, representing some of the best new filmmakers and emerging talent. Works included are: Dekalb Elementary

US 2017 Dir Reed Van Dyk 20 min Inspired by a 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in Atlanta, Georgia. My Nephew Emmett US 2017 Dir Kevin Wilson Jr 20 min In 1955, a Mississippi preacher tries to protect his 14-year-old nephew, Emmett Till from two racist killers out for blood. The Eleven O’Clock Australia 2016 Dir Derin Seale 13 min The delusional patient of a psychiatrist believes he is actually the psychiatrist. As they each attempt to treat each other, the session gets out of control. The Silent Child UK 2017 Dir Chris Overton 20 min A deaf girl named Libby is born into a middle class family and lives in a world of silence, until a caring social worker teaches her the gift of communication. Watu Wote/All of Us Germany/Kenya 2017 Dir Katja Benrath 23 min For almost a decade, Kenya has borne terrorist attacks of the Al- Shabaab. Anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians grows, until Muslim bus passengers show solidarity.

Dunkirk (12A) Mon 5 Mar 8.45, Cinema 3 UK/Netherlands/France, US 2017 Dir Christopher Nolan 106 min Nolan’s war film tells history from three points of view - land, sea, air- as events unfold with a sense of dread and tension, evoking the very human and immediate desire to survive. The work features an all-star supporting cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Mur- phy and , as well as British newcomer Fionn White- head. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Di- rector and Original Score.

The Shape of Water (15) Tue 6 Mar 8.30pm, Cinema 3 US 2018 Dir Guillermo del Toro 123 min Guillermo del Toro returns with this unusual aquatic love story be- tween an amphibian man (Doug Jones) and a shy, mute cleaner (Sally Hawkins) working at a top secret government facility.

Nominated for 13 Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress for Sally Hawkins

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wed 7 Mar 8.40pm, Cinema 3 US 2016 Dir Martin McDonagh 115 min McDonagh’s award-winning drama follows Mildred (Frances McDormand) as she puts up three provocative billboards in her hometown after underwhelming investigations on the killing of her own daughter, forcing Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) to look at the case anew. Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Actress for Frances McDormand

Lady Bird (15) Thu 8 Mar 8.45pm, Cinema 3 US 2018 Dir Greta Gerwig 93 min Gerwig’s directorial debut focuses on young Christine a.k.a. Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), as she constantly butts up against the constraints of teenage life, with big (somehow unrealistic) dreams clashing with her reality at a catholic school in Sacramento in 2002. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay

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Notes to Editors

For further information contact: Sarah Harvey Publicity 020 7732 7790 Sarah Harvey: [email protected] Eleonora Claps: [email protected]

Ticket prices: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/cinema Box Office: 0845 120 7527

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About the Barbican

A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the bound- aries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual

arts. Its creative learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over 1.1 million people attend events annually, hundreds of artists and per- formers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. The architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbi- can Theatre, The Pit, Cinemas One, Two and Three, Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Ter- race, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of Corporation is the founder and principal funder of the Bar- bican Centre.

The Barbican is home to Resident Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra; Associate Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra; Associate Ensembles the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia, Associate Produc- er Serious, and Artistic Partner Create. Our Artistic Associates include Boy Blue Entertainment, Cheek by Jowl, Deborah Warner, Drum Works and Michael Clark Company. The Los Angeles Philharmonic are the Barbican’s International Orchestral Partner, the Australian Chamber Orches- traare International Associate Ensemble at Milton Court and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are International Associate Ensemble.

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