Fantastic Voyage

A team of doctors is miniaturized and injected into the bloodstream of a critically injured scientist to save his life, and find themselves battling both the body’s natural immune system and a possible saboteur in their midst.

Sun, May 1, 2022 | 7:30pm PT

David Geffen Theater
Fantastic Voyage

Introduction by STEM specialist Justin Shaifer

A team of doctors is miniaturized and injected into the bloodstream of a critically injured scientist to save his life, and find themselves battling both the body’s natural immune system and a possible saboteur in their midst. This imaginative science-fiction thriller, directed by veteran filmmaker Richard Fleischer, won Oscars for its Art Direction and Visual Effects, which strikingly depict the inside of the human body.

DIRECTOR: Richard Fleischer. WRITTEN BY: Harry Kleiner. ADAPTATION BY: David Duncan. STORY BY: Otto Klement, Jay Lewis Bixby. CAST: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Arthur Kennedy. 1966. 100 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. DCP.

All film screenings in the Oscar® Sundays series are available here.

This program is... made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

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