In Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest darkly funny and unsettling vision, two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap a high-powered tech CEO (Emma Stone), convinced she’s an alien plotting Earth’s destruction. What follows is a bizarre exploration of paranoia, power, and belief that blends absurd comedy with Lanthimos’s signature deadpan tone and striking visual style.

A festival favorite and award-season darling, Bugonia has been praised for its bold mix of satire and humanity, with critics celebrating Stone’s razor-sharp performance and Jesse Plemons’s quietly unnerving intensity. Lanthimos’s collaboration with screenwriter Efthimis Filippou has been hailed as a return to the biting surrealism of The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, while the film’s haunting score adds another layer to its eerie, offbeat world.

Nominated for four Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), and Best Original Score—Bugonia cements Lanthimos’s reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s most inventive and fearless storytellers.

Tampa Theatre is proud to show a selection of films that have been nominated for OSCARS^® at the 98^th annual Academy Awards; some we had the pleasure of showing during their first-run release, while others are new to our screens.

Ordinarily, we would encourage you to catch up on any films you missed before our annual Hollywood Awards Night event, but with the Historic Duncan Auditorium closing for restoration work ahead of our 100^th anniversary, we will all be watching the OSCARS^® from home this year when it streams on March 15, 2026.

This screening is held in the Historic Duncan Auditorium. This space utilizes open seating for this event, seat selection is not required.