Doubt in 35mm

At the height of the 1970s disaster-movie craze, two competing studios teamed with producer Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure) and director John Guillermin (King Kong) for an epic thriller about a San Francisco skyscraper imperiled by fire during its opening celebration. Paul Newman is the architect and Steve McQueen is the fire chief who must save the all-star cast, including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, and an Oscar-nominated Fred Astaire. Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Sound, it won for its cinematography, film editing, and the original song “We May Never Love Like This Again.” 

The search for the Holy Grail sets Indiana Jones on yet another nonstop action adventure and teams with him an unexpected partner—his estranged father. The once-in-a-lifetime pairing of screen legends Harrison Ford and Sean Connery as two generations of Joneses is one of the many delights of director Steven Spielberg’s third film about the globe-trotting archaeology professor.  Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns helped bring the adventure to life with their Oscar-winning sound effects editing, and the film also received nominations for Sound (Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, Tony Dawe) and John Williams’s thrilling score. 

The first of Tom Clancy’s best-selling novels about CIA analyst Jack Ryan was brought to the screen by director John McTiernan (Die Hard). When Ryan (Alec Baldwin) learns that a state-of-the-art Soviet submarine piloted by Capt. Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) has gone rogue, he becomes convinced that the crew is trying to defect and embarks on a dangerous mission to avert World War III. The film earned three Oscar nominations, including Film Editing and Sound, and won for the sound effects editing of Cecelia Hall and George Watters II, who help make the film’s submarine settings feel uncannily real.

Ruben Stone is a metal drummer whose diagnosis of progressive hearing loss forces him to reevaluate his art and life in this powerful drama directed and cowritten by Darius Marder. Riz Ahmed was nominated for his moving lead performance, and the film’s six nominations include Best Picture and Paul Raci’s supporting performance. Sound of Metal won Oscars for Film Editing (Mikkel E. G. Nielsen) and Sound (Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Phillip Bladh).