The Academy

NYC: cinema’s favorite co-star. 🗽 Featured films: Godzilla (1998), Ghostbusters (1984), King Kong (1933), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Enchanted (2007), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Rumble in the Bronx (1995), In The Heights (2021), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Rear Window (1954), Good Time (2017), Birdman (2014), A Thousand and One (2023), Uncut Gems (2019), Coming to America (1988), The Godfather (1972), Saving Face (2004), Taxi Driver (1976), West Side Story (2021), Sex and the City (2008), An American Tail (1986), New Jack City (1991), Arbitrage (2012), Escape from New York (1981), Money Monster (2016), Margin Call (2011), Goodfellas (1990), The Big Short (2015), Inside Man (2006), Do the Right Thing (1989), Crooklyn (1994), Death Wish (1974), I Am Legend (2007), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Highest 2 Lowest (2025), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Past Lives (2023), The Brutalist (2024), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Wall Street (1987), The Apprentice (2024), The Warriors (1979), Paid in Full (2002), Mean Streets (1973), American Psycho (2000), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Winter's Tale (2014), West Side Story (1961), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Male bonding but it’s just collectively losing your mind to a 2000s dance anthem. Film: WARFARE (2025) Directed and written by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Starring D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Charles Melton, Noah Centineo, Finn Bennett and Michael Gandolfini

The 53rd Student Academy Awards are heading to #TIFF26! This year’s ceremony will be held at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) inside TIFF Lightbox on September 14, 2026, in partnership with Rolex. The winners of this year’s competition will be announced in August, and all Student Academy Award-winning films will be eligible to compete for the 99th Oscars in the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Film category. The Student Academy Awards were established in 1972 to provide a platform for emerging global talent by creating opportunities within the industry to showcase their work.

Dessert first is actually a perfect exercise of free will. Film: REMEMBER ME (2010) Directed by Allen Coulter Written by Will Fetters Starring Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin and Tate Ellington

The trilogy event Hollywood’s been waiting for. Conan O’Brien returns to host the Oscars LIVE on Sunday, March 14, 2027.

How it feels showing your friends the song that changed your life. Film: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (2026) Directed by Nia DaCosta Written by Alex Garland Starring Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Erin Kellyman, Chi Lewis-Parry, Emma Laird, Connor Newall, Maura Bird, Ghazi Al Ruffai, Robert Rhodes and Sam Locke

“If I’d told her how I felt about her back then, would the future have been different?” Film: 18×2 BEYOND YOUTHFUL DAYS (2024) Directed by Michihito Fujii Written by Michihito Fujii and Hirokawa Hayashida Starring Greg Hsu, Kaya Kiyohara, Joseph Chang Hsiao-Chuan, Shunsuke Michieda and Haru Kuroki

Happy #MothersDay to all the moms, motherly figures, those with us, and those we carry in our hearts. 💛

May this kind of love find us all. 🥺 Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES (2013), featuring the voices of Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto and Hidetoshi Nishijima, was nominated at the 86th Oscars for Animated Feature Film.

Some rivalries are eternal. Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion and Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero in MORTAL KOMBAT (2021), directed by Simon McQuoid.

“You don’t get to hate it unless you love it.” Film: THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (2019) Directed by Joe Talbot Written by Joe Talbot and Rob Richert Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, Mike Epps and Finn Wittrock

When the vibes are low but the harmonies are high. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) stars George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman and Holly Hunter. The film was nominated at the 73rd Oscars for Cinematography (Roger Deakins) and Adapted Screenplay (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen).