The Odyssey in Depression-era Mississippi with a soundtrack that outsold the film.
Two sisters, an ice palace and "Let It Go", which took the Oscar for best song.
Hugo’s barricades sung live on set, with Hathaway’s one-take I Dreamed a Dream.
P. T. Barnum as a pop musical; the songs outlived the reviews.
How Willy Wonka got the factory, as a musical with Chalamet and a Hugh Grant Oompa-Loompa.
Baz Luhrmann sets 1900 Paris to Elton John and Nirvana, and gets away with it.
Arthur Fleck on trial from Arkham with Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel, told as a jukebox musical; the lowest CinemaScore ever given a comic-book film.
A groom accidentally marries a dead woman; stop-motion, with Danny Elfman songs.
Sondheim's musical as a blood-soaked Victorian London; Depp and Bonham Carter sing.
A Dublin busker and a Czech pianist write songs for a week; "Falling Slowly" won the Oscar.
Bjork as a factory worker going blind, singing musical numbers in her head; von Trier's Palme d'Or.
Villagers play the British at cricket to escape a tax; three hours and forty-four minutes of it.
Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol from London to Punjab; running in a Mumbai cinema since 1995.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the first half of the Broadway musical; "Defying Gravity".
Twin brothers open a juke joint in 1932 Mississippi and vampires arrive; Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.
Two revolutionaries in 1920s India, a tiger, a motorbike and "Naatu Naatu"; Tollywood at full scale.
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, ending with twenty minutes of Live Aid recreated.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga; "Shallow" sung live for the first time.
Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway singing live on set and the barricades of 1832.
A Polynesian chief's daughter sails past the reef with a demigod; the ocean as a character.
A jazz pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; the freeway opening and the ending that hurts.
Rapunzel, a thief and a frying pan; the floating lanterns scene.
Ariel under the sea and the start of the Disney Renaissance.
Robin Williams as the Genie, a magic carpet ride and "A Whole New World".
Nobody puts Baby in a corner; the summer of 1963 at a Catskills resort.
Jack Skellington kidnaps Santa; Selick and Burton's stop-motion musical.
The first animated film nominated for Best Picture; the ballroom scene.
Every line sung, every wall painted; Catherine Deneuve at a petrol station in the snow.
Kermit crosses America by bicycle to Hollywood; "Rainbow Connection".
Altman's 24 characters over five days of country music and a political rally.
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