The 2026 Academy Awards ceremony was hosted by U.S. talk show host Conan O’Brien. Best PictureBugonia – Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone & Lars KnudsenF1 – Chad …

TCM today: Movie Makers – Oscar Movies: Lana Turner proved she could act in The Bad and the Beautiful, Robert Altman assembled a zillion stars in The Player.

TCM today: Comedy – Oscar Movies: Charles Chaplin’s 1940 political satire The Great Dictator and Blake Edwards’ 1979 morality tale 10 among 12 features.

TCM today: Baseball – Oscar Movies: Two well-received Kevin Costner star vehicles of the late 1980s – Bull Durham and Field of Dreams – among five primetime features.

Set in the South – Oscar Movies on TCM: To Kill a Mockingbird and A Streetcar Named Desire, starring winners Gregory Peck and Vivien Leigh among five titles.

Medical Issues – Oscar Movies on TCM: The Bette Davis tearjerker Dark Victory and Stanley Kramer’s underappreciated drama Not as a Stranger among five features.

Robert Duvall Tribute – Oscar Movies on TCM: Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, and Tender Mercies, which earned him the Best Actor Academy Award.

Silent Films – Oscar Movies on TCM: F.W. Murnau’s unique Academy Award winner Sunrise and Michel Hazanavicius’ Best Picture winner The Artist among six titles.

New York City – Oscar Movies on TCM: Fateful Manhattan Melodrama and John Schlesinger’s Best Picture winner Midnight Cowboy among 12 features.

Adventure: Oscar Movies on TCM: The animal rights-conscious Born Free, the classic King Solomon’s Mines, and the unappealing Mogambo among 12 features.

Space Travel – Oscar Movies on TCM: Fred M. Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey among four features not set on Planet Earth.

Oscar Movies – Politics: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Seven Days in May, and The Fog of War among TCM’s five titles set in the corrupt, power-mad political realm.

Oscar Movies – Homecoming: Sweet Bird of Youth and the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, starring Penélope Cruz, among TCM’s four presentations.

Oscar Movies – Foreign Adventures: Around the World in 80 Days, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and A Passage to India among TCM’s four presentations.

Radio and TV – Oscar Movies on TCM: The Judy Holliday social satire It Should Happen to You and the little remembered Mr. Dodd Takes the Air among seven titles.