2026 Up The Awards Benefit Bash

If not the best value, then easily the least expensive, crowd-pleasing group-watch of AMPAS’ annual parade of over-the-top, fashion-festooned celebrities, melodramatic acceptance speeches cut short by time-conscious producers, and Hollywood’s last-ditch attempt to drive us back into cinemas and up their pay-per-views numbers.

This event comes with a time-honored program of mind-bending, bizarrely mesmerizing shorts, alarmingly riveting music videos & side-splittingly inappropriate film clips, all of which replace the salvo of coma-inducing commercials perpetually intruding upon the Academy-created inanity, AND all compliments of virtuoso audio / visual rummager, Mr. Travis White!

2.30pm: Doors open.
3.00pm: Red Carpet arrivals on the Big Roxie screen.
4:00pm: The Oscars® ceremony begins.

And there’s a contest! The person who most accurately divines the illogic of The Academy will win….. something! Ballots must be turned in before the first award is announced. The winner will be contacted the following week.

Stay 1 step ahead of other contestants by buying tix to our shows of Oscar® Nominated Shorts. The Animation & Documentary categories are ON SCREEN NOW!

Your sliding scale donation goes directly to the operations of your 110 year-old +, independent, 501c3, nonprofit cinema that has defied the odds and still stands thanks to your support.

This event is not sponsored by or affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But many thanks to ABC/KGO-TV for their support!

And….. AND…. once again, Middle Eastern delicacies will be staged in our tiny lobby, complements of our highly-recommended & cherished neighbors to the East, Truly Mediterranean. Feel free to pop your head in and give Omar piece of your mind, should your appetite move you!