With the red carpet ready to roll out for the 88^thAcademy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 28, we thought it would be a goodopportunity to compile a list of films with themes related to thebanking industry that received Oscar nominations or won the goldenstatuette.

Think we missed one? Share your picks in our commentssection.

Here's a look at our 10 favorites.

It's a WonderfulLife

The 1946 film directed by Frank Capra, which has becomeChristmas season classic, was nominated for five Oscars: BestPicture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Director, Best SoundRecording and Best Film Editing.

James Stewart played George Bailey, a compassionate butfrustrated businessman who on Christmas Eve, thinking his life ismeaningless made a wish that he was never born. In granting hiswish, guardian angel Clarence showed George all the lives he hadtouched and how different life in his community of Bedford Fallswould have been if he had never been born.

MaryPoppins

The 1964 Walt Disney film directed by Robert Stevenson andinspired by the P.L. Travers book series Mary Poppins won fiveOscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Film Editing, BestEffects – Special Visual Effects, Best Music – Original Song andBest Music, Substantially Original Score.

Julie Andrews played the magical nanny Mary Poppins, who througha series of quirky adventures, helped stoic London banker GeorgeBanks reconnect and have fun with his wife and children as afamily.

Scrooge

The 1970 film musical based on the Charles Dickens classic AChristmas Carol was nominated for four Oscars: Best ArtDirection – Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Music –Original Song and Best Music – Original Song Score. Is it anysurprise that cranky old miser Ebenezer Scrooge was a banker whohated Christmas and mistreated his employee Bob Cratchit andclients? He received a wake-up call on Christmas Eve when he wasvisited by three spirits and learned that being kind and generousto others has more value than money.

TradingPlaces

Commodities brokerage firm owners, the brothers Randolph andMortimer Duke, decided to test whether social hierarchy and successwas based on nurture or nature. When they witnessed analtercation between their managing director Louis Winthorpe III,who was engaged to their grand-niece Penelope, and poor streethustler Billy Ray Valentine, who Winthorpe had arrested forsuspected robbery, the brothers decided to use the two men as pawnsin a life swapping experiment. The 1984 comedy directed by JohnLandis was nominated for Best Music, Original Song Score andAdaptation or Best Adaptation Score.

WallStreet

The 1987 film directed and co-written by Oliver Stone earnedMichael Douglas an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for hisportrayal of corporate raider Gordon Gekko. The movie toldthe story of Bud Fox, a young and impatient stockbroker in New YorkCity, who wanted to work with his hero, legendary Wall Streetplayer Gekko. Fox, played by Charlie Sheen, was willing to doanything to get to the top. When Gekko took him under his wing, Foxgot more than he bargained for.

WorkingGirl

Directed by Mike Nichols, the 1988 romantic comedy won the Oscarfor Best Original Song. Carly Simon's Let the River Runthen became an anthem for women in the workplace. StatenIsland-raised secretary Tess McGill, played by Melanie Griffith,works as a secretary in the mergers and acquisitions department ofa Wall Street investment bank and dreams of moving up. After herboss Katharine Parker, played by Sigourney Weaver, broke her legskiing while in Europe and asked Tess to house-sit, the streetsmart Tess discovered her boss planned to pass off her merger ideaas her own to media mogul Oren Trask. Tess used Parker's absenceand connections, including executive Jack Trainer, to present herown idea to Trask.

Catch Me If YouCan

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19thbirthday successfully performed cons worth millions of dollarsthrough check fraud. Abagnale, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, alsoposed as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a doctor and a legalprosecutor. The 2002 film was nominated for two Oscars: Best Actorin a Supporting Role and Best Music, Original Score. Abagnale isnow one of the most respected authorities on the subjects offorgery, embezzlement and secure documents and the majority of hiswork has been in service to the U.S. government. In 2012 hetestified before the U.S. Senate about the potential growth ofelder financial services abuse.

Margin Call

Written and directed by J. C. Chandor, the 2011 film, which wasnominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, documented theearly stages of the financial crisis of 2007-2008. The filmexplored what happened at a Wall Street investment firm when JuniorRisk Analyst Seth Bregman, Senior Analyst Peter Sullivan andTrading Desk Manager Will Emerson discovered the firm's portfolioof mortgage backed securities could lead to the its collapse.

The Wolf of WallStreet

Directed by Martin Scorsese, the 2013 film was nominated forfive Oscars: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, BestPerformance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Achievement inDirecting, Best Writing/Adapted Screenplay and Best Motion Pictureof the Year. The film was based on the true story of JordanBelfort's career as a stockbroker and exposed the corruption andfraud that ran rampant at his firm Stratton Oakmont, whicheventually lead to his downfall. Leonardo DiCaprio also starred inthis film.

The BigShort

The Big Short was based on the non-fiction 2010 book by MichaelLewis about the financial crisis of 2007-2008, and was nominatedthis year for five Oscars: Best Motion Picture of the Year, BestPerformance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Achievement inDirecting, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Best Achievement inFilm Editing. When hedge fund manager Michael Burry predictedin 2005 that the housing market bubble, built upon high-risksubprime mortgages, would collapse in the second quarter of 2007,he realized he could profit from the situation. When hispredictions proved true, more traders and investors rushed to cashin, too.