Carrie Turns 50 in 4K With Sissy Spacek in the Room

Brian De Palma took Stephen King's first novel and built Carrie around a shy teenager who discovers telekinesis as her classmates and her devout mother, played by Piper Laurie, close in. The 1976 film earned Spacek her first Academy Award nomination and Laurie her second. Fifty years on, the prom sequence still lands as a sudden, unrecoverable turn. The film runs 98 minutes and carries an R rating.

Spacek appears in person at the Academy Museum, which bills the evening as a screening in 4K and a conversation with its star. She talks about the role that brought her first Academy Award nomination and the career that followed, including the Oscar she won for Coal Miner's Daughter. Amy Irving and William Katt round out the supporting cast around her. The evening sits inside the museum's Spotlights series, and November 19 is the only date listed.

Thursday, November 19. Showtime is 7:30 PM, and the museum's ticketing lists the session as a 7:30 to 9:30 PM slot. The film runs 98 minutes. Doors open approximately 60 minutes before showtime, and guests are asked to be seated at least 15 minutes before the program starts. Standby sales open 15 minutes before showtime, and seats stop being guaranteed once they begin. Ticketing on October 23, 2026 listed ten dollars for adults, seven for seniors, five for students; children under 12 need an adult. The D Line stops at Wilshire/Fairfax, five minutes on foot, with buses 20 and 720 along Wilshire. Self-parking at the LACMA Pritzker garage, 6000 West 6th Street with entry on 6th, is 24 dollars daily or 16 dollars after 8 PM, open 5 AM to 10 PM; the Petersen garage at 744 South Fairfax runs to 11 PM at 18 dollars for two hours and a 40 dollar daily maximum. Onyx Tower's validated rate is a weekend daytime special, not an option for an evening screening. The Grove and the Original Farmers Market sit about a kilometer northeast, 12 to 15 minutes on foot, and Barnes & Noble The Grove is inside the same center.