--- title: Oscars 2016: Kids Explain Best Picture Nominees description: Their plot summaries are hilariously incorrect canonical: https://time.com/4239472/oscar-best-picture-nominees-kids-explains/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-26T21:39:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:32.463Z og:title: Watch Kids Try to Explain This Year's Best Picture Nominees og:description: Their plot summaries are hilariously incorrect og:url: https://time.com/4239472/oscar-best-picture-nominees-kids-explains/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Kids Try to Explain This Year's Best Picture Nominees twitter:description: Their plot summaries are hilariously incorrect twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Kids Try to Explain This Year's Best Picture Nominees by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 26, 2016 9:39 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 26, 2016 9:39 PM CUT Do not watch the following clip if you’re looking for a helpful, informative recap of the eight Best Picture nominees in time for Sunday’s Academy Awards. Do watch it if you want to see a bunch of kids being goofy and hilarious. [Fandango Movieclips](https://www.youtube.com/movieclipsTRAILERS "undefined") rounded up a bunch of youngsters to explain all eight films nominated for the highest honor at the Oscars. Right away, it’s clear these kids have not seen the films (which is good, as many are rated R.) Regardless, they still go ahead and offer plot summaries with total confidence: _Brooklyn?_ Oh yeah, that’s a movie about a young woman who lands a job at the Disney Store in Hollywood. _The Revenant?_ That’s a fun little move starring Tom Hardy and Leonardo Di_Carp_io. One kid does manage to accurately explain the plot of _The Martian:_ “a guy trapped on Mars, no food, no water, no nothing.” But when asked who stars in it, he goes rogue and responds, “John F. Kennedy.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4239472/oscar-best-picture-nominees-kids-explains/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4239472/oscar-best-picture-nominees-kids-explains/"},"headline":"Watch Kids Try to Explain This Year's Best Picture Nominees","datePublished":"2016-02-26T21:39:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:32.463Z","description":"Their plot summaries are hilariously incorrect","url":"https://time.com/4239472/oscar-best-picture-nominees-kids-explains/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4239472/oscar-best-picture-nominees-kids-explains/","name":"Watch Kids Try to Explain This Year's Best Picture Nominees"}}]}] ```