Feb 8, 20224 min read

The Oscars 2022

Updated: Apr 4, 2022

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.

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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.

4. BELFAST (Age 12A)

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.

6. NO TIME TO DIE (Age 12A)

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)