Every March looks like Christmas for traditional movie followers as tv’s dwelling for timeless film fare, TCM, finds a recent strategy to package deal its large slate of Oscar-worthy movies within the annual 31 Days of Oscar marathon.
How ought to it’s organized? By decade? By award class? A to Z? For this mega-marathon’s twenty ninth spherical, the 352 titles airing — all of them both a winner or nominee throughout Academy classes — are bundled underneath one in every of 55 genres.
The viewing joys start on Wednesday, March 1 at dawn with the class of “Family Ties,” led by Orson Welles’ masterful 1942 interval piece about rich Midwesterners The Magnificent Ambersons. Six extra kinfolk classics run all through the day: James Dean and Richard Davalos in 1955’s sibling rivalry drama East of Eden at 9:30am/8:30c and Judy Garland’s frothy 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis at 11:30am/10:30c make for fairly a double characteristic!
Primetime resets with “Adventure.” Fans of this yr’s quest-filled Best Picture nominees Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick are in for a deal with at 8/7c with The Adventures of Robin Hood, the high-flying story of Robin (Errol Flynn) wooing lovely Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland, above). It’s adopted by Humphrey Bogart’s Best Actor efficiency in 1951’s The African Queen (10/9c).
The 2023 Oscar contenders go head-t0-head on Sunday, March 12 when the 2023 Academy Awards kick off at 8/7c on ABC. Up for Best Picture are the aforementioned Avatar and Top Gun sequels together with Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, Tár, Triangle of Sadness, and Women Talking.
All of the above titles have hit streaming companies by now. While you’re lounging out watching TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar marathon, take a look at the place to stream the 2023 Oscar nominees right here.
31 Days of Oscar Marathon, Wednesday, March 1, 6am/5c, TCM