Gravity

(Alfonso Cuarón, UK/US 2013, 91 min., 35mm)

This lean, technically spectacular space adventure was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won seven, including for director Alfonso Cuarón, making him the first person of Hispanic origin to win the award. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a brilliant medical engineer, is on her first shuttle mission orbiting the earth. While on a routine space walk, she and Commander Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) are stranded in their space suits when debris from a Russian satellite explosion impacts their shuttle and the space station. Stone and Kowalksi are set on an impossible path to survive, no matter what the cost.