RRR in 4K Sun, May 19 | 7:30pm | DGT
ONGOING SERIES OSCAR ® SUNDAYS SUNDAYS | 7:30PM
This ongoing series celebrates films that have been honored at the Academy Awards. Following the 96th Oscars on March 10, 2024, we will be screening winners from several categories. Please check our guide to Oscars Season on page 4, and visit academymuseum.org/Oscars2024 following the ceremony for more details. In April 2024, we’re honoring the two-time Academy Award–winning actor Marlon Brando (1924–2004) in what would have been his centennial year by highlighting some of his Oscar-nominated performances. You can find other films in our centennial tribute to Brando in our limited series Forever a Contender on page 14. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May 2024, we reflect on milestones for AAPI artists at the Oscars. Programmed by K.J. Relth-Miller. Notes by K.J. Relth-Miller and Robert Reneau. Chase is the Presenting Partner of Oscar ® Sundays. Special thanks to The Brando Estate and the Academy’s AAPI Alliance Employee Resource Group.
for their supporting performances. Screen icon Vivien Leigh won her second Best Actress Academy Award for her delicately tragic portrayal of Blanche DuBois. Featuring an influential, jazz-infused, nominated score by Alex North and Oscar-winning black-and-white art direction from Richard Day and George James Hopkins, Streetcar lost none of its primal power on the big screen. DIRECTED BY: Elia Kazan. WRITTEN BY: Tennessee Williams. ADAPTATION BY: Oscar Saul. WITH: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. 1951. 125 min. USA. B&W. English. Rated PG. DCP.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Julius Caesar in 35mm Sun, Apr 14 | 7:30pm | DGT
A Streetcar Named Desire Sun, Apr 7 | 7:30pm | DGT
Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s decision to cast Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in his film of the Shakespeare classic was widely criticized at the time, due to the popular cliché that the Actors Studio–trained star was a “mumbler,” but his stirring performance silenced the detractors and Brando proved the equal of his A-list co-stars, including
Elia Kazan cast three Actors Studio veterans in his film version of Tennessee Williams’s stage classic, with Marlon Brando making an indelible impression in his nominated performance as Stanley Kowalski, a role he originated on stage, while Karl Malden and Kim Hunter (both Broadway carryovers) won
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