The Oscar nominations were announced this week, which rewards the best movies of the past year.
Here's 10 films our Mix Up Theatre families might want to check out before 12th March 2023.
Remember to rate what you see!
The full list of nominees follow...
1. ELVIS
Available to rent/buy from Amazon Prime
8 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Leading Actor - Austin Butler
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling
Best Production Design
Best Sound
The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
2. THE FABELMANS
In Cinemas
7 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director - Steven Spielberg
Best Leading Actress - Michelle Williams
Best Supporting Actor - Judd Hirsch
Best Original Screenplay - Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
Best Original Score - John Williams
Best Production Design
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
3. TOP GUN: MAVERICK
Available on Sky Cinema / Paramount
6 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay - Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Peter Craig, Justin Marks
Best Original Song - "Hold My Hand" - Lady Gaga, Bloodpop
Best Editing
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound
After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.
Daniel (Age 12) - ★★★★★
"Top Gun Maverick was an absolutely amazing film. The acting was top tear and the writing was great. I would argue that it was just as good as the original."
Read our Reviews HERE
4. BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
In Cinemas Now / Streaming Disney+
5 Nominations:
Best Supporting Actress - Angela Bassett
Best Original Song - "Lift Me Up" - Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Goransson
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Visual Effects
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
Jasmine (Age 15) - ★★★★★
"This sequel delivers on all notes- great action, great twists and an interesting villain. With superb acting from the brilliant Letitia Wright, I would recommend this movie not to just marvel fans but also any movie fans of an action epic. (Also, Rihanna’s new song made especially for this movie is wonderful). I especially loved how it paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman and created some truly beautiful scenes."
Read our Reviews HERE
5. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
In Cinemas Now
4 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Production Design
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
Daniel (Age 12) - ★★★
"This was a good film. The cgi was absolutely amazing and the action was good but it was very long and after a while did start to feel boring. I also thought the dialogue was not great. My favourite character is Miles Quaritch because he was cool and a very good villain in my opinion.
Overall this was a good movie that looked and sounded amazing but I do think it was way to long and the dialogue could have been better"
Read our Reviews HERE
6. THE BATMAN
Available on Sky Cinema
3 Nominations:
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.
Daniel - ★★★★
"I’m a big fan of the Batman films but this was very different from the others. First Bruce Wayne was always quite quiet and melancholy and was very different from Christian Bale’s performance as the character. Aside from this the acting was enjoyable the action was terrific and the Riddeler was a great villain because he was scary and extremely smart and cunning. My favourite character was Batman and my second favourite was commissioner Gordon.
Overall this film was very enjoyable but was very different from the Dark Knight trilogy and other Batman films."
Read our Reviews HERE
7. LIVING
Available to Rent/Buy on Amazon Prime
2 Nominations:
Best Leading Actor - Bill Nighy
Best Adapted Screenplay - Kazuo Ishiguro
In 1950s London, a humorless civil servant decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
8. THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE
Available on BBC iPlayer
1 Nomination:
Best Animated Short Film
Follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home.
9. CLOSE
In Cinemas
1 Nomination:
Best International Feature Film
The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.
10. PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH
In Cinemas
1 Nomination:
Best Animated Feature Film
When Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish.
How do you rate these films?
All the nominations of the Academy Awards 2022...
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
Best Actress
Ana de Armas - Blonde
Cate Blanchett - Tar
Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie
Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Actor
Austin Butler - Elvis
Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser - The Whale
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
Bill Nighy - Living
Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau - The Whale
Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
Bryan Tyree Henry - Causeway
Judd Hirsch - The Fabelmans
Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Director
Todd Field - Tar
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin
Ruben Ostland - Triangle of Sadness
Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
Best Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Tar
Triangle of Sadness
Best Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Best Animated Feature
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
Best Documentary Feature
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
A House Made of Splinters
Fire of Love
Navalny
Best International Feature
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl
Best Original Song
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere All At Once
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick
Tell it Like a Woman
Best Original Score
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tar
Best Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Costume Design
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Best Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
No Time to Die
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
Best Live Action Short
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Night Ride
The Pupils
The Red Suitcase
Best Animated Short
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It
My Year of Dicks
Best Documentary Short
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate
