Whether you're cramming before cinephiles' yearly final exam — the Academy Awards — or you simply want to see one of your favorite films of 2025 on the big screen one last time, the Belcourt's annual Best Picture Marathon is a godsend.
The series returns next month, with 33 screenings of this year’s nominees jam-packed into a nine-day stretch in the lead-up to the 2026 Academy Awards. Starting on March 6, there will be a handful of screenings each day, culminating in the nonprofit's annual Red Carpet Evening on March 15, the night of the Oscars. The Red Carpet Evening is one of the nonprofit's biggest recurring fundraising events.
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With more streamers crashing the Academy Awards every year, the Belcourt's annual marathon gives audiences a chance to catch efforts like Guillermo del Toro's gothic-fantasy grim-venture Frankenstein or Clint Bentley's lyrical, haunting adaptation of Denis Johnson's Train Dreams — both Netflix productions that received limited theatrical releases before heading to streaming — on the big screen.
If you were unable to catch the dizzying Timothée Chalamet showcase Marty Supreme, the invigorating family tragicomedy Sentimental Value, the world-class performances in Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, the anti-authoritarian political thriller The Secret Agent or Yorgos Lanthimos' pitch-black comedy Bugonia during the glut of awards season releases at the Belcourt, now is your chance to remedy that.
It's a rare treat to watch a modern summer blockbuster like F1 at the Belcourt, so make sure to take advantage of that opportunity while you can. And if you haven't had the pleasure of seeing Ryan Coogler's bold vampire genre-bender Sinners or Paul Thomas Anderson's radical comic thriller One Battle After Another in theaters, you're in for a treat. You may even see me there for my third and fourth in-theater viewings, respectively.
You can find a full schedule of the screenings here.
