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 3rd March 2025.
Remember to rate what you see!
The full list of nominees follow...
Available to rent on Sky Cinema
10 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Leading Actress - Cynthia Erivo
Best Supporting Actress - Ariana Grande
Best Original Score
Best Film Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Visual Effects
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Galinda, a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. After an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads.
Stewart - ★★★★★
"Excellent production values and performances, Ariana Grande is a revelation! It's a little longer than it's required to be but this is a toe-tapping exercise in friendship and strong female roles. The songs are all as excellent as you remember them!"
2. CONCLAVE
Available to rent on Sky Cinema
8 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Leading Actor - Ralph Fiennes
Best Supporting Actress - Isabella Rossellini
Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Straughan
Best Original Score
Best Film Editing
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a web of conspiracies and intrigue that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.
Available on Sky Cinema
5 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Cinematography
Best Visual Effects
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Paul Atreides unites with the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future.
Stewart - ★★★★★
"A stunning sci-fi that continues on the world building, fantastic visuals, effects, costumes, production design etc and the cast are all fantastic - totally rooting for Zendaya and Austin Butler is a wicked new villain. Loved it! Though it is pretty long!"
Available to rent/buy on Sky Cinema
3 Nominations:
Best Animated Film
Best Original Score
Best Sound
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Mix Up Junior (Age 5) - ★★★★★
"I give it 10 out of 5 - the best bit was when they were cuddling each other."
5. FLOW
2 Nominations:
Best Animated Film
Best International Film
Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.
6. NICKEL BOYS
In Cinemas
2 Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay - RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "Nickel Boys" chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
7. SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
Available to rent/buy Amazon Prime
1 Nomination
Best Documentary
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
Available on Disney+
1 Nomination:
Best Animated Film
A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.
Amelia-Rose (Age 9) - ★★★★★
"I would give this movie 5 stars!
I loved this film, the new emotions are so cool, lots of parts of the film were funny and made me laugh alot.
I really enjoyed the first film but this one was my favourite."
9. WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL
Available on BBC iPlayer
1 Nomination:
Best Animated Film
Top dog Gromit springs into action to save his master when Wallace's high-tech invention goes rogue and he is framed for a series of suspicious crimes.
10. KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Available on Disney+
1 Nomination:
Best Visual Effects
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
How do you rate these films?
All the nominations of the Academy Awards 2025...
Best picture
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I'm Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Best actor
Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice
Best actress
Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison - Anora
Demi Moore - The Substance
Fernanda Torres - I'm Still Here
Best supporting actress
Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande - Wicked
Felicity Jones - The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez
Best supporting actor
Yura Borisov - Anora
Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
Edward Norton - A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong - The Apprentice
Best director
Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker - Anora
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
James Mangold - A Complete Unknown
Best adapted screenplay
A Complete Unknown - Jay Cocks and James Mangold
Conclave - Peter Straughan
Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing - Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best original screenplay
Anora - Sean Baker
The Brutalist - Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg
September 5 - Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
Best original song
Never Too Late - Elton John: Never Too Late
El Mal - Emilia Pérez
Mi Camino - Emilia Pérez
Like A Bird - Sing Sing
The Journey - The Six Triple Eight
Best original score
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Best international feature
I'm Still Here - Brazil
The Girl with the Needle - Denmark
Emilia Pérez - France
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Germany
Flow - Latvia
Best animated feature
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best documentary feature
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Sugarcane
Best costume design
Wicked
Nosferatu
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Best make-up and hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Best production design
Wicked
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Conclave
Best sound
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Best film editing
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
Best cinematography
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
Best visual effects
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
Best live action short
Anuja
I'm Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
A Lien
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Best animated short
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Best documentary short
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
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