Who will the Oscar go to? With Sunday’s Bafta winners blowing the race wide-open, it’s coming down to a photo-finish this weekend and you can catch all the action at Showroom Cinema.

Celebrations kick off at 11pm on Sunday 2 March in the Showroom Café Bar. Get red carpet ready for our best dressed competition and photo opp, then fill out your prediction sheets - with prizes on offer for getting the most right on the night.

Dig into some free popcorn as we play a few rounds of Bingo before heading over live to Los Angeles for all the thrills and spills of the 97th Academy Awards! We’ll be going deep into the night, broadcasting the ceremony, with 2-for-£10 cocktail offers to keep you topped up on fizz. 

Will Emilia Pérez continue a crushing awards campaign, slipping from firm-favourite and 13 nominations to a total lock-out? Will Coralie Fargeat defy a male-dominated (but completely open) Directors’ category with her shocking body-horror The Substance? Can the Academy stay gaffe-free for a second year running? 

Conclave, a perennial outsider in this year’s Best Picture category, picked up four Baftas last week, rocketing it up the odds to take home this year’s biggest prize. That won’t be a surprise to Showroom audiences, who made waves for the Vatican-set drama and kept it on our programme for over four months. 

While competitors like Anora, The Brutalist and Dune: Part Two all made their releases much earlier, there’s still a chance to catch some of the year’s best films that are vying for top spot. 

A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic is up for eight gongs, including Best Picture, Director and Actor for Timothée Chalamet’s turn as the folk icon.  

I’m Still Here, is Walter Salles’ return to directing after 12 years. The Brazilian director focuses on the forced disappearances that occurred in the 1970s. Fernanda Torres plays the wife of a dissident, looking for answers decades later, earning her a nod, along with Best Picture and International film nominations. 

Finally, A Real Pain, the brotherly dramedy with a scene-stealing Kieran Culkin; and Memoir of a Snail, Adam Elliot’s wonderful and tragic claymation tale, are in contention and screening now. 

Keep an eye of Showroom’s programme when the final winners are announced, but before then, we hope you join us for an unforgettable evening:  /oscars2025