TWO hot Oscar favourites are showing at Southampton's Harbour Lights Picturehouse this week.

The art house cinema, at Ocean Village, is keeping the Academy Awards buzz going right up until Hollywood’s glitziest night of the year.

To celebrate, the Daily Echo has teamed up with Harbour Lights to give one film fan a membership of the cinema each week during Oscar season.

The lucky winner will be able to watch all the hotly-tipped films for free, including Lion and Hackshaw Ridge.

Director Garth Davis brings dramatic heft and shimmering visuals to this saga of five-year-old Saroo (the beguiling Sunny Pawar), who is accidentally stranded in Kolkata, 950 miles from his home in Madhya Pradesh in Lion. Afraid and disoriented, he faces overwhelming challenges, but is eventually adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham) who lovingly parent him in their native Tasmania. While on a hotel management course 25 years later, the grown-up Saroo (Dev Patel) meets and falls in love with Lucy (Mara), who then helps him to search for the mother he still yearns for back in India. Based on a true story, this is an arresting, emotionally charged and Oscar-worthy tale.

Hackshaw Ridge is the true story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), who won a Congressional Medal Of Honour during the Second World War without firing a shot. After a lifetime of humiliation, first by his drunken father (Hugo Weaving) and then by army colleagues, Doss served in the assault on Okinawa as an army medic and saved the lives of 75 men during a brutal battle for the titular Hacksaw Ridge. Mel Gibson’s directorial return, like The Passion Of The Christ before it, is as much about personal conviction as it is about visceral violence: the account of an outsider finding redemption through extraordinary suffering.

A membership entitles the bearer to free film tickets, discounts on all tickets, priority booking for the hottest tickets and ten per cent off food and drinks.

Harbour Lights enjoys free parking and is fully open to film fans, despite the ongoing building work at Ocean Village.

For your chance to win a membership, just answer the following question:

Which British actor plays the grown up Saroo in Lion?

Send your answer and contact details to Lorelei Reddin, Southern Daily Echo, Newspaper House, Test Lane, Redbridge, Southampton, SO16 9JX or email lorelei.reddin@dailyecho.co.uk by Friday, February 17.

Normal Echo rules apply.