The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced Tuesday, setting the stage for the much-anticipated Oscars show on Feb. 26.
That gives you four weeks to try to see all the films and actors nominated for the golden statue.
We compiled a list of local theaters screening Oscar-nominated films. Now the only choice you have to make is popcorn with butter or without.
Glenn Close is nominated for Best Actress in the role of a woman posing as a man.
Showing: Harvard Exit, 206-781-5755
Much has been said about this silent film that tells the story of the end of the silent era of movies. It has a surprise ending and terrific score.
Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Best Actor: Jean Dujardin.
Showing: Alderwood Mall, 800-326-3264; Harvard Exit, 206-781-5755; Cascade Mall, 360-707-2727
“A Better Life”
A father tries to keep his son away from gangs.
Nomination: Best Actor: Demian Bichir.
Showing: Now out on DVD.
George Clooney tries to connect with his daughters while his wife is dying.
Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director: Alexander Payne; Best Actor: George Clooney.
Showing: Alderwood Mall, 800-326-3264; Everett Stadium, 425-353-3505; Marysville, 360-659-1009; Guild 45th, 206-781-5755; Meridian, 206-223-9600 Metro, 206-781-5755
“Extremely Loud &Incredibly Close”
Tom Hanks stars in this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel about a boy whose father dies in the 9/11 attacks.
Nomination: Best Picture.
Showing: Alderwood Mall, 800-326-3264; Everett Stadium, 425-353-3505; Galaxy Monroe, 360-863-0909; Marysville, 360-659-1009; Stanwood Cinemas, 360-629-0514; Meridian, 206-223-9600
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
Rooney Mara gets her first Oscar nomination (for Best Actress) playing the dark and brooding young Swedish woman who has learned to fend for herself.
Showing: Alderwood, 425-776-3535; Everett Stadium, 425-353-3505; Metro, 206-781-5755; Pacific Place, 888-262-4386; Woodinville, 425-482-6538
“The Help”
A writer in the early 1960s writes a tell-all book about the discrimination against black maids in a Southern town.
Nominations: Best Picture; Best Actress: Viola Davis.
Showing: Now out on DVD.
An ode to early French film, this story takes the point of view of a boy who lives in a train station in the 1930s and is swept up in the rising wave of automation.
Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director: Martin Scorsese.
Showing: Alderwood, 425-776-3535; Everett Stadium, 425-353-3505; Stanwood Cinemas, 360-629-0514; Meridian, 206-223-9600; Oak Tree, 206-527-1748
Meryl Streep, Best Actress nominee, gets her 17th Oscar bid this time as the formidable Margaret Thatcher.
Showing: Alderwood Mall, 800-326-3264; Marysville, 360-659-1009; Guild 45th, 206-781-5755; Meridian, 206-223-9600; Oak Tree, 206-527-1748
Michelle Williams is nominated for Best Actress as she plays Marilyn Monroe. Williams has been nominated three times; Marilyn was never nominated for an Oscar.
Showing: Varsity, 206-781-5755
A screenplay writer in Paris is magically transported back in time where he meets Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cole Porter and other luminaries.
Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director: Woody Allen.
Showing: Crest Cinema, 206-781-5755. Also on DVD.
Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane’s attempts to find success on the baseball field.
Nominations: Best Picture; Best Actor: Brad Pitt. Showing: Crest Cinema, 206-781-5755. Also on DVD.
Gary Oldman is nominated for Best Actor as George Smiley, a retired spy brought back to find a mole in the Secret Service, based on the John LeCarre novel.
Showing: Alderwood Mall, 800-326-3264; Pacific Place, 888-262-4386; Seven Gables, 206-781-5755
The story of three sons and their experience over time is a nonlinear film that some critics loved but many moviegoers passed by.
Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director: Terrence Malick.
Showing: Now out on DVD.
A young Englishman enlists in World War I, and Joey, his horse, is taken for use in the calvary. Nomination: Best Picture. Showing: Alderwood Mall, 800-326-3264; Everett Stadium, 425-353-3505; Marysville, 360-659-1009; Olympic Theater, 360-435-3939; Metro, 206-781-5755; Pacific Place, 888-262-4386
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