The Oscar nominations were announced today, which rewards the best movies of the past year.
Here's 10 films our Mix Up Theatre families might want to check out before 27th March 2022.
Remember to rate what you see!
The full list of nominees follow...
1. THE POWER OF THE DOG (Age 12A)
Available on Netflix
12 Nominations. 1 WIN
Best Picture
WINNER: Best Director - Jane Campion
Best Leading Actor - Benedict Cumberbatch
Best Supporting Actress - Kirsten Dunst
Best Supporting Actor - Jesse Plemons
Best Supporting Actor - Kodi Smit-McPhee
Best Adapted Screenplay - Jane Campion
Best Original Score - Jonny Greenwood
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.
2. DUNE (Age 12A)
Available to Buy / Rent from Amazon
10 Nominations. 6 WINS
Best Film
Best Adapted Screenplay - Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
WINNER: Best Original Score - Hans Zimmer
WINNER: Best Sound
WINNER: Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Best Production Design
WINNER: Best Film Editing
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling
Best Costume Design
WINNER: Best Cinematography
Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
Read our Reviews HERE
3. WEST SIDE STORY
In Cinemas Now
7 Nominations. 1 WIN
Best Film
Best Director - Steven Spielberg
WINNER: Best Supporting Actress - Ariana DeBose
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Cinematography
Best Sound
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
In Cinemas Now
7 Nominations. 1 WIN
Best Film
Best Director - Kenneth Branagh
Best Supporting Actress - Judi Dench
Best Supporting Actor - Ciaran Hinds
WINNER: Best Original Screenplay - Kenneth Branagh
Best Original Song - 'Down to Joy' Van Morrison
Best Sound
A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
Read our Reviews HERE
5. KING RICHARD (Age 12A)
Available to Buy / Rent from Amazon
6 Nominations. 1 WIN
Best Film
WINNER: Best Actor - Will Smith
Best Supporting Actress - Aunjanue Ellis
Best Original Screenplay - Zach Baylin
Best Original Song - 'Be Alive' Beyonce & Dixson
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
Available to Buy / Rent from Amazon
3 Nominations. 1 WIN
WINNER: Best Original Song - 'No Time To Die' Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound
James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Read our Reviews HERE
7. CODA
Available on AppleTV+
3 Nominations. 3 WINS
WINNER: Best Film
WINNER: Best Supporting Actor - Troy Kotsur
WINNER: Best Adapted Screenplay - Sian Heder
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music by wanting to go to Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
8. ENCANTO
Available on Disney+
3 Nominations. 1 WIN
WINNER: Best Animated Film
Best Original Score - Germaine Franco
Best Original Song - 'Dos Oruguitas' Lin-Manuel Miranda
A Colombian teenage girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.
9. CRUELLA (Age 12A)
Available on Disney+
2 Nominations. 1 WIN
WINNER: Best Costume Design
Best Hair / Make-Up
A live-action prequel feature film following a young Cruella de Vil.
10. TICK...TICK...BOOM! (Age 12A)
Available on Netflix
2 Nominations:
Best Leading Actor - Andrew Garfield
Best Film Editing
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.
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All the nominations of the Academy Awards 2022...
Best Picture
Belfast
WINNER: CODA
Don't Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Actress
WINNER: Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart - Spencer
Best Actor
Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield - Tick...Tick...Boom!
WINNER: Will Smith - King Richard
Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of MacBeth
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
WINNER: Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
Judi Dench - Belfast
Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard
Best Supporting Actor
Ciaran Hinds - Belfast
WINNER: Troy Kotsur - CODA
Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons - Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smith-McPhee - The Power of the Dog
Best Director
Belfast - Kenneth Branagh
Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamagauchi
Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
WINNER: The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion
West Side Story - Steven Spielberg
Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Belfast - Kenneth Branagh
Don't Look Up - Adam McKay, David Sirota
King Richard - Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Worst Person in the World - Eskil Vogt, Joachin Trier
Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: Coda - Sian Heder
Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamagauchi, Takamasa Oe
Dune - Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion
Best Animated Feature
WINNER: Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
Best Documentary Feature
Ascension
Attica
Flee
WINNER: Summer of Soul
Writing with Fire
Best International Feature
WINNER: Drive My Car (Japan)
Flee (Denmark)
The Hand of God (Italy)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)
Best Original Song
Be Alive - King Richard (Dixson, Beyone Knowles-Carter)
Dos Oruguitas - Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Down to Joy - Belfast (Van Morrison)
WINNER: No Time to Die - No Time to Die (Billie Eillish, Frances O'Connell)
Somehow You Do - Four Good Days (Diane Warren)
Best Original Score
Don't Look Up - Nicholas Britell
WINNER: Dune - Hans Zimmer
Encanto - Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers - Alberto Iglesias
The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood
Best Cinematography
WINNER: Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of MacBeth
West Side Story
Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Film Editing
Don't Look Up
WINNER: Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
Tick...Tick...Boom!
Best Costume Design
WINNER: Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Best Sound
Belfast
WINNER: Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Production Design
WINNER: Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of MacBeth
West Side Story
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
WINNER: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Best Live Action Short
Ala Kachuu - Take and Run
The Dress
WINNER: The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
Best Animated Short
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
BoxBallet
Robin Robin
WINNER: The Windshield Wiper
Best Documentary Short
Audible
Lead Me Home
WINNER: The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
