Hugh Jackman & Kate Hudson’s Music Sung Blue: Early Oscar Contender

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson’s upcoming movie Music Sung Blue is producing loads of Oscar buzz after its movie pageant debut. The Australian actor is most well-known for starring in such movies as X-Males and The Biggest Showman, whereas Hudson has starred in a number of romcoms, together with Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days and Bride Wars.

Jackman and Hudson’s subsequent movie is a musical biopic referred to as Music Sung Blue, which will likely be launched on December 25, during which they play Mike Sardina and Claire Sardina, a pair who type a Neil Diamond tribute band within the Eighties. The movie is predicated on a real story, which was recounted in a documentary, additionally referred to as Music Sung Blue.

Music Sung Blue simply premiered on the AFI Movie Competition on Sunday, October 26. Early opinions from critics are pegging this movie as a attainable Oscar contender, with Hudson, particularly, receiving plaudits. Her efficiency is being in comparison with the likes of Reese Witherspoon in Stroll the Line, Hilary Swank in Million Greenback Child and Frances McDormand in Fargo.

After Music Sung Blue debuted on the movie pageant, a number of critics and different viewers members took to X to offer their early reactions. There is a “actual emotional depth” within the movie, which is essentially attributable to Hudson’s “heartfelt” and “shifting” efficiency, in keeping with @OscarFilmFC.

The truth is, Hudson has acquired many of the reward on social media, even when some reviewers had been extra vital about different elements of the movie.

In the meantime, @JoeyMagidson did not count on to “be as moved” in the best way he was whereas watching Music Sung Blue, which he referred to as each “heartbreaking” and “heartwarming.”

Talking of main reward, @ryanmcquade77 claimed that Music Sung Blue has “main CODA vibes.” The Apple TV movie received three Oscars in 2022, together with for Finest Image and Finest Supporting Actor.

If Hudson receives a Finest Actress nomination on the 2026 Academy Awards, it is going to be her first Oscar nomination since being acknowledged in 2001 for Nearly Well-known. Whereas she did not win that yr, she did stroll away with a Golden Globe for a similar function.

After profitable an Emmy, Grammy and two Tony Awards, Jackman is only one Oscar win away from EGOT standing. He was nominated for an Academy Award within the Finest Actor class for his function within the musical Les Misérables.

A number of musicals and music biopics have received Oscars through the years, together with West Facet Story, The Sound of Music, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Stroll the Line, Ray and La La Land. Music Sung Blue might be part of the ranks of those prestigious movies if it wins even only one Oscar.

If Hudson will get nominated for Finest Actress, her competitors will probably embody Cynthia Erivo (Depraved: For Good), Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) and Amanda Seyfried (The Testomony of Ann Lee). Jackman, in the meantime, would probably be going through Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) within the Finest Actor class.

Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will likely be introduced on January 22, 2026, with the awards present itself airing reside on March 15.

Music Sung Blue will likely be launched in theaters on December 25, 2026.