BEST OSCAR WATCH BASED HOMEWORK

By Zoe Neely ‘25

Ah, awards season. Full of celebrity red carpets, awkward jokes, and of course, awards. Among all the different shows perhaps the greatest leviathan of them all is the Oscars. But who has the time to watch all those films? Luckily, we're big fans of multitasking, so here are the best Oscar movies to watch based on your homework.

lights, camera, action!

Feeling depressed about your calculus class? Take a trip to Fightertown, USA. Top Gun: Maverick is a thrilling, lively movie with great charisma and jaw dropping practical action. If you can keep score during dog fight football, solving an integral should feel like a breeze. Put this on in the background and you’ll be done with your three homework problems, and each of their eight subsections, in no time.

Struggling with music theory? Tár or Elvis is for you. Tár is a film about a fall from grace and is eerily surrealist in its visuals and themes. If Cate Blanchette can’t help you with your dictations, no one can. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the Baz Luhrmann biopic, so if you’re looking for something more upbeat to motivate you, go with Elvis.

If you’ve got cinema and media studies homework that doesn’t involve watching any of these movies already, go with Everything Everywhere All At Once. This breathtakingly funny and also deeply heartbreaking action sci-fi family drama is the standout film of the entire awards season. It's one of those movies that will be taught in schools someday. Or similarly, check out The Fablemans. Quite literally a movie about movies, Stephen Speilburg’s autobiographical film might help teach you about Dutch angles or something.

Women’s and gender studies majors should watch Women Talking. One of the more serious films on