Drake’s screening the golden boy’s best.
In the lead up to #Oscars2015, The Drake Hotel rolled out the red carpet and offering up for your #TeamOscar nostalgia consideration previous Best Picture winners that tie-in with this year’s front-running contenders.
Prior to each film, a programme of Oscar telecast highlights from its year as well as trailers from other nominees will be screened to get guests in the mood.
SUNDAY JANUARY 11 – ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
All the world’s a stage. In Birdman, an actor (Michael Keaton) famous for playing an iconic superhero struggles to mount a Broadway play. This biting backstage drama, however, owes much to Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s classic drama of theatrical life, featuring a tour de force performance by Bette Davis as a proud yet insecure mega-star backstabbed by her Machiavellian assistant.
SUNDAY JANUARY 25 – AMADEUS (1985)
Period film’s brilliant yet complicated geniuses. The Imitation Game is just the latest entry in the prestige biopic genre, but switch out the obsessive mathematician for the classical prodigy and you have Milos Forman’s opulent 18th-century set drama on the iconic yet uncouth Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the scheming second-rate composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham).
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1 – IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
#BlackLivesMatter. Selma, Ava DuVernay’s MLK biopic on a crucial episode in the 1960s civil rights movements echoes Norman Jewison’s taut Deep South-set crime drama on a bigoted police chief (Rod Stieger) who comes to trust a strong black homicide detective (Sydney Poitier) in the midst of a racially-motivated murder investigation.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8 – THE GODFATHER (1972)
The rocky terrain that is the epic coming-of-age. Boyhood’s painstaking examination of a boy becoming a man matches up with Coppola’s elegiac saga of a powerful Italian-American crime family and the idealistic, youngest son (Al Pacino) who tragically follows his father’s steps.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15: GRAND HOTEL (1932)
A love letter to lavish, bygone European hotels. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel owes much to this Golden Era-Hollywood film, featuring luminaries like Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford in a big and brassy melodrama on the affairs of the rich and not-so-famous.
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