The Oscars 2026

Mix Up Theatre (Stewart)
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We take a look at this year's Oscar nominations...

Here's 10 films our Mix Up Theatre families might want to check out before 15th March 2026.

Remember to rate what you see!

The full list of nominees follow...

1. HAMNET

Cinema + Available to rent on Sky Cinema

8 Nominations:

Best Picture

Best Director - Chloe Zhao

Best Leading Actress - Jessie Buckley

Best Casting

Best Adapted Screenplay - Maggie O'Farrell, Chloe Zhao

Best Original Score - Max Richter

Best Costume Design

Best Production Design

After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.

Archie (Age 13) - ★★★★★

"Was a very sad film about what is believed to be the inspiration for Hamlet. In it shakespeare’s wife Agnes has a child, but he passes away while Shakespeare isn’t there. This inspires Shakespeare to write hamlet as a way to say the things he couldn’t. I really enjoyed this film, it was a tragic story and it had great performances from the actors. I was also impressed with how lots of scenes are filmed in one camera shot with all natural lighting."

Have you seen it?

2. F1: THE MOVIE

Available on Apple+

4 Nominations:

Best Picture

Best Film Editing

Best Visual Effects

Best Sound

A Formula One driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver.

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3. TRAIN DREAMS

Available on Netflix

4 Nominations:

Best Picture

Best Adapted Screenplay - Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar

Best Song - "Train Dreams" Nick Cave

Best Cinematography

Based on Denis Johnson's beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.

Have you seen it?

4. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS

Available on Netflix

2 Nominations:

Best Animated Film

Best Song - "Golden" EJAE

A world-renowned K-Pop girl group balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters.

Have you seen it?

5. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Cinema

2 Nominations:

Best International Film

Best Original Screenplay - Jafar Panahi

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man's identity.

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6. AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

In Cinemas

2 Nominations:

Best Visual Effects

Best Costume Design

Jake and Neytiri's family grapples with grief, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.

Have you seen it?

7. ZOOTROPOLIS 2

Cinema

1 Nomination

Best Animated Film

Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers.

Mix Up Junior (Age 6) - ★★★★★

"I loved it and the snake is the best new character. It's very funny!"

Have you seen it?

8. ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS

Available on Netflix

1 Nomination:

Best Documentary Short Film

Follows correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.

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9. SONG SUNG BLUE

Available to Rent / Buy - Sky Cinema / Amazon Prime

1 Nomination:

Best Lead Actress - Kate Hudson

Lightning and Thunder, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together.

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10. ELIO

Available on Disney+

1 Nomination:

Best Animated Film

Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.

Have you seen it?

All the nominations of the Academy Awards 2026...

Best picture