Oscar Loves... The Open Road

Whether it's hitchhiking or the night bus, this month our Oscarologists gather to discuss the Academy's love of an epic road trip.

Frank Capra's It Happened One Night see Claudette Colbert's socialite flee her imposing father only to run into Clark Gable's ramshackle reporter in desperate need of a story.

In Midnight Cowboy we watch an unlikely friendship form between two hustlers in New York, newly-arrived Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and ailing conman 'Ratso' Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). 

Thank you to Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music and Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork.