Princeton Public Library is setting the mood for the 97th Academy Awards on March 2 with a weekly program, Oscar Winners through the Decades. Best Picture winners from the 1930s through the 1980s are screened on Wednesdays through February 26, from 3 to 5:15 p.m. The films are shown in the Community Room in the library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Light refreshments are served starting at 2:45 p.m.

The films, which began with the Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) on January 22, continue with The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) on January 29, On the Waterfront (1954) on February 5, The Apartment (1960) on February 12, The Sting (1973) on February 19, and Rain Man (1988) on February 26.

Whether you are a film aficionado or just curious about Best Picture winners, you can’t help be touched by some elements of these films, from the changes brought by World War II to three veterans in The Best Years of Our Lives; the newly discovered brother relationship in Rain Man; Jack Lemon and Shirley McLaine’s budding romance in The Apartment; Robert Redford and Paul Newman against the backdrop of Scott Joplin music in The Sting; and Marlon Brando’s tour de force acting in On the Waterfront, under Elia Kazan’s direction.

The Community Room is wheelchair accessible.

For more information, visit princetonlibrary.org.