La La Land

La La Land is a 2016 musical film directed by Damien Chazelle. The film is notable for receiving a record 14 Academy Award nominations (tying with Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950 drama All About Eve and James Cameron's 1997 romantic epic Titanic).

Like Die Hard and Doctor Zhivago, some parts of La La Land take place around Christmastime most notably at Christmas Eve when a young pianist named Sebastian is ordered by his restaurant boss to play traditional Christmas music for the patrons only to slip into jazz improvisation, which results in him getting fired.