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The 2024 Oscars are around the corner , and interestingly enough , Hollywood ’s big nighttime respect an eclectic bunch of role player who are oldtimer ofMarvelandDCmovies . Superhero movies produced by these two laughable Good Book giant are often not put forward at the Academy Awards ( bar expert categories and casual Best Picture nominees likeBlack Panther ) . This class is no exception , although the Marvel Cinematic Universe scored a Best Visual Effects spot , thanks toGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 . Meanwhile , Sony’sSpider - Man : Across the Spider - Versealso earned a nominating address for Best Animated Feature , the same category that its precursor won .
And while theDC Extended Universe moviesare absent this awards season , The Dark Knighttrilogy originator Christopher Nolanis eyeing the Best Director plunder forOppenheimerwhile his lead actor has follow a long way since playing an iconic amusing scoundrel . Nine out of twenty play nominees are also notably actor from past Marvel movies , having play superheroes , supervillains , or crucial support characters to the booster . From the Best Supporting Actor frontrunner who kickstartedthe MCU timelinein 2008 to the actor play a Gotham policeman inThe Batman , the Oscars have no shortage of superhero star to award .
10Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy Was The Dark Knight Trilogy’s Scarecrow
Murphy Has Had Multiple Collaborations With Christopher Nolan
Irish actorCillian Murphy ’s creative partnership with Christopher Nolan commence withBatman Begins , in which he played Arkham Asylum psychologist Dr Jonathan Crane , aka the sadistic Fear Toxin God Almighty known as Scarecrow . As Murphy reprised his role inThe Dark KnightandThe Dark Knight Rises , Scarecrow became one of theDark Knighttrilogy ’s most abiding villains . Finally , Murphy bring the public eye as the lead in a Nolan cinema , ever since he played the eponymous theoretical physicist inOppenheimer . Murphy ’s harrowing , hollow - eyed performance as the enigmatical Father of the Atomic Bomb earn him his first - ever Oscar Best Actor nomination .
Every Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy Collaboration
Batman Begins ( 2005 )
The Dark Knight ( 2008 )
Inception ( 2010 )
The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 )
Dunkirk ( 2017 )
Oppenheimer ( 2023 )
9Poor Things' Emma Stone Previously Played Gwen Stacey
The Oscar Winner Was An Emotional Highlight Of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
A subversively feminist take on Frankenstein ’s ogre , Emma Stone play Bella Baxter with utmost naivety that later turns into an unabashed hardiness that only theLa La Landactress could charm in Yorgos Lanthimos ’ dark steampunk comedyPoor Things . BeforeStone received a Best Actress nomination for playing a Victorian Londoner upraise from a brain transplant , the one - fourth dimension Oscar victor and four - fourth dimension nominee featured conspicuously inThe Amazing Spider - Manmovies as Peter Parker ’s high - school class fellow and love sake Gwen Stacy . Gwen met a tragically comic - accurate last in what was one of the most emotional highlights of the otherwise polarizing subsequence .
Amid calls for Emma Stone to render as Gwen Stacy , the construct would both be marvelous but also risk smash the history of Spider - Man : No Way Home .
8Maestro’s Bradley Cooper Is The Voice Of Rocket Raccoon
The Actor-Director Is An Integral Part Of The Guardians Of The Galaxy Franchise
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3sets anew Oscar record for Marvel trilogies , as its Best Visual Effects nominating speech means thatGuardians is the only MCU serial in which every moving-picture show garnered an Oscar nominating address since theIron Mantrilogy . Meanwhile , the Best Actor category include the MCU movie ’s dirty - mouthed , weapon system - steal racoon . While Bradley Cooper ’s Rocket Raccoon witnessed an emotional backstory in the James Gunn film , Cooper clear a Best Actor nomination for portraying legendary composer and music director Leonard BernsteininMaestro , a biopic that he directed and co - wrote ( earning his second 2024 Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay ) .
Maestro ’s Best Actor nomination marks Bradley Cooper ’s fifth acting nomination and twelfth Oscar nominating speech overall .
7The Holdovers' Paul Giamatti Was Once Sony Spider-Man’s Rhino
Giamatti Appeared In Armor In The Final Scene Of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
After a various career spanning multiple decennium , Paul Giammati earned his 2nd Oscar nomination for portraying an uptight chronicle instructor inThe Holdovers . Eager to take on all sorts of character roles , the Golden Globe and Emmy winner was even roped in to play the armored supervillain Rhino inThe Amazing Spider - Manfranchise . The Best Actor nominee play the Russian Mafia mobster Aleksei Systevich shortly inThe Amazing Spider - Man 2and even donned the Rhino armor toward the ending . The movie ’s Sinister Six tease left more next potential for his fibre until the franchise quit production .
Sony ’s presentation at CinemaCon 2023 showed off some footage from the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie , include an exclusive first - expression at Rhino .
6Nyad’s Annette Bening Played The Supreme Intelligence In Captain Marvel
The Actress Is A Five-Time Oscar Nominee
FromAmerican BeautytoThe kid Are All decently , Annette Bening is Oscar royalty with five act nominations to her name . The 2024 Oscars include her in the Best Actress category forNyad , the variation biopic star Bening as long - distance bather Diana Nyad , who swim from Cuba to Florida in her 60 . Marvel Cinematic Universe fans will remember Bening from the 2019 blockbusterCaptain Marvelin which she play the artificial intelligence - driven avatar of the Kree people ’s view , aka the Supreme Intelligence . The character first manifests as rebel Kree scientist Mar - Vell and Carol Danvers ’ aviation superior , Dr. Wendy Lawson .
5American Fiction’s Jeffrey Wright Voiced The Watcher In Marvel’s What If…? And Played Jim Gordon In The Batman
This Is The Reputed Character Actor’s First Oscar Nomination
American Fiction ’s Best Actor nominee Jeffrey Wright joins the social status of role player withroles in both Marvel and DC labor . The James Bond franchise alumnus voiced the Watcher inMarvel ’s What If … ? , the storyteller and all - knock-down guardian of multiple timelines of the animated anthology series . In live - action , Wright also plays the Gotham City officer Jim Gordon , the fiercely firm friend to the titular vigilance man inThe Batman . Wright is nominate for the Best Actor Oscar for asterisk inAmerican Fictionas Monk Ellison , a author who write an eccentric satirical novelafter being scotch with stereotyped depictions of Black people .
4Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr Will Always Be Remembered As Iron Man
This Is The MCU Veteran’s Third Oscar Nomination
Thanks toChaplinandTropic Thunder , Robert Downey Jr. was already a two - metre Oscar nominee as 2008 ’s Iron Man rise his life history . From an spark nuclear reactor insert in his chest inIron Manto snapping Thanos out of beingness inAvengers : Endgame , Downey Jr has been synonymous with the MCU for a tenner . Post - Marvel , Downey Jr. play Lewis Strauss , a retired Navy officeholder who moderate the Atomic Energy Commission inOppenheimer . His portraiture of an empathy - inducing antagonist in Christopher Nolan ’s period heroic draw world-wide vital eclat , andthe MCU actor is touted as the Best Supporting Actor frontrunner this year .
3Poor Things' Mark Ruffalo Is The MCU’s Hulk
This Is The Bruce Banner Actor’s Fourth Oscar Nomination
Mark Ruffalo is usually used to playing prescribed characters , buthis Best Supporting Actor Oscar - appoint role inPoor Thingsfinds him take on the virtuously twine lawyer Duncan Wedderburn . Ruffalo is a pleasure to learn as his sexually degenerate part attempts to woo Emma Stone ’s heroine ( and miserably fails ) . While Ruffalo has been making a mark in critics ' circles with quirky public presentation , he ’s often cherished among MCU fans asthe thespian act Hulk in live - activeness . Despite not head a solo Hulk movie yet , Ruffalo ’s scientist - bend - beast has made his bearing felt in Marvel projects likeThe Avengers , Thor : Ragnarok , andAvengers : Endgame .
2American Fiction’s Sterling K Brown Played Killmonger’s Father
The Tragic Opening Of Black Panther Featured Brown In A Brief Role
WithThis Is UsandAmerican Crime Story , Sterling K Brown has had a few Emmy win to his cite . ButAmerican Fictionmarks Brown ’s first - ever Oscar nominating speech for Best Supporting Actor . He displays his comedic and striking range as Jeffrey Wright ’s on - screen brother , a charge card surgeon estranged from his family . make out to genetic hassle , Brown also had a brief yet crucial role inBlack Pantherplaying Erik Killmonger ’s slain father N’Jobu . The unseasoned brother of then - Black Panther T’Chaka , he betrays Wakanda to avail oppress people all over the earth . N’Jobu ’s death is the master catalyst behind the movie ’s events .
1Barbie’s America Ferrera Will Join What If…? Season 3
The Oscar Best Supporting Actress Nominee’s Marvel Role Isn’t Disclosed Yet
A surprising campaigner in the Best sustain Actress category at the 2024 Oscars was America Ferrera , who played the dissatisfied Mattel employee Gloria in Greta Gerwig ’s fantasy satireBarbie . Ferrera has some of the best moments in the cinema as she help Margot Robbie ’s Barbie unwrap the human world and return a awaken monologue on being a modern - day woman . Interestingly , Ferrera ’s post - Barbie project admit a function in thenew season ofMarvel ’s What If … ?although details of her role have been kept under wrapper . Adding an Oscar nominee like the Superstore actress is a bang-up addition to the MCU pantheon .
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