Director Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti reunite in this heartwarming Christmas comedy set at a 1970s New England boarding school. Unpopular professor Paul Hunham (Giamatti) is assigned to supervise a small group of students with nowhere to go at the holidays. He bonds with a troublemaker named Angus (Dominic Sessa) and the school’s head cook, Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), forming an unlikely trio that grows into a chosen family. The film’s five nominations included Best Picture and Best Actor, and Randolph won Best Supporting Actress for her affecting performance as a grieving mother whose son was recently killed in the Vietnam War.