Octavia Spencer

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

Dir. Theodore Melfi · With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

Dir. Tate Taylor · With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard

In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.

Dir. Dan Scanlon · With Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Dir. Marc Webb · With Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

Dir. Sean Anders · With Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Allyn Rachel

Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.

Dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore · With Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Dir. Stuart Hazeldine · With Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Dir. Bong Joon Ho · With Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

Dir. Ryan Coogler · With Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Díaz, Octavia Spencer

Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.

Dir. Sean Anders · With Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Amanda Seyfried, Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.

Dir. Stephen Herek · With Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close

Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.

Dir. Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms · With John Hawkes, Anthony Anderson, Octavia Spencer

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

Dir. Robert Schwentke · With Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller

Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

Dir. James Ponsoldt · With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

Dir. Mike Binder · With Kevin Costner, Jillian Estell, Jennifer Ehle

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Dir. Tate Taylor · With Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd

An African American washerwoman rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire.

With Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

Dir. Tate Taylor · With Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Diana Silvers

A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.

Dir. Randall Miller · With Marlon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, David Paymer

After being dumped by his model girlfriend, aspiring writer Quincy Watson quits his job and is inspired to pen the ultimate how-to book on breaking up. When it becomes a smash bestseller, he starts giving his player cousin, Evan, choice tips on how to win the battle of the sexes. But when Evan's beautiful girlfriend Nikki gets wind of the plan, it's these players that end up getting played.

Dir. Daniel Taplitz · With Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union

A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

Dir. Michael Pearce · With Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Lucian-River Chauhan

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

Dir. Julius Onah · With Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer

Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.

Dir. Raja Gosnell · With Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Molly Shannon

Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts with Poppy Parnell, who risks everything—including her life—to pursue truth and justice.

Dir. Nichelle D. Tramble · With Octavia Spencer, Mekhi Phifer, David Lyons

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Dir. Robert Schwentke · With Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller

A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the celebrity, and the girl's best friend.

Dir. Robert Luketic · With Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, Josh Duhamel

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.

Dir. Silas Howard · With Claire Danes, Jim Parsons, Octavia Spencer