Shopping for an Oscar Themed Menu

I'm writing a play that I originally had taking place with the televised SuperBowl 50 in the background, while two obnoxious women (both modeled on me) share their obsessions--one a vegangelical, the other a conspiracy theorist.  Now I'm having it take place at a small gathering to watch the televised Oscar.

The vegangelical/abolitionist vegan says things like this:

And I made the Cincinatti chili the taxi driver recommends in Anomalisa.  I just left out the pound and a half of the ground beef chuck and the pound of cheddar cheese.

And this:

I made the fish stew Anthony Bourdain talks about in The Big Short.  I Googled "fish stew without the fish" but all the recipes had fish.   So then I Googled vegan fish stew, and that's what I made.


  This morning after my hour at the Y I'm going to get ingredients for the following Oscar-themed menu:

Collateralized Debt Obligation (fish stew without the fish) from The Big Short

 Cincinnati Chili from Anomalisa

Potato Pancakes for Matt Damon, who grows potatoes on Mars in The Martian

A cake with an 88 instead of a 5 (Oscar's age instead of Jack's ) for Room

          This was a birthday cake,  but since I'm signed up to bring the amuse-gueules for the Sunday morning Chew and View group, I'll make it a apiced applesauce cake and then serve the chocolate one in the evening.

Spaghetti for what Eilis's Irish housemates teach her to eat before she has dinner with her Italian boyfriend's family in Brooklyn.

What are they eating in Carol?  I know they're drinking martinis!