Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Family dinners in real life are often filled with laughter and drama, so it's no surprise that the movies have given us some memorable meals as well. From a Best Actor winner's big moment to a supernatural musical number over appetizers, here are 10 of the cinematic suppers we'll never forget in today's look at Movie Munchies.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell do a family dinner like nobody else in “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”

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John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell do a family dinner like nobody else in “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”

Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro enjoy a late night supper with Martin Scorsese’s mother, Catherine, in “Good Fellas.”

Woody Allen gets a case of culture shock during Easter dinner in “Annie Hall.”

A possessed Catherine O’Hara (right) disrupts dinner with a rendition of “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” in “Beetlejuice.”

Stéphane Audran prepares the meal of a lifetime in “Babette’s Feast.”

Ke Huy Quan and Kate Capshaw receive a surprise entrée at Pankot Palace in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”

Movie audiences first met the whole Klump family (mostly played by Eddie Murphy) over dinner in “The Nutty Professor.”

Comic tensions erupt over dinner between Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Olivia Williams in “Rushmore.”

Kevin Spacey makes an announcement that will change his family’s lives in “American Beauty.”

Stanley Tucci serves the Italian banquet that could save his family in “Big Night.”

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Images from the collection of the Margaret Herrick Library.

What's your favorite movie dinner scene?