Create the Ultimate Oscar Movie Night at Home With These 12 Items By Adrienne Westenfeld of Esquire | If this were any other year, we'd be spending these final few weeks leading up to the Oscars bolting from movie theater to movie theater, frantic to catch a screening of every Best Picture nominee. But this isn’t any other year, meaning that we've had to look elsewhere—namely our home TVs—for the cream of the crop. If there’s a movie theater popcorn-shaped hole in your heart, come sit by us. You’re not alone. Ever since March 2020, we've been perfecting our home theater experience; now, over a year later, we've gotten it down to a science. Here’s how it goes: on Friday nights after a long workweek, turn off all the lights, burn a vampire’s crypt worth of candles, and cozy up in front of a movie with homemade popcorn. This home theater set-up is basically a mausoleum, but with better snacks. Your own version of home viewing nirvana might look different than that, but that’s the whole point: at home, you can enjoy a flick with all your creature comforts, rather than suffer the indignity of sneaking a pizza box into the theater under your winter coat (Regal Union Square, I’m so sorry).