Best Actor Oscar Nominees 2024: 5 Actors Who Are Competing For The Trophy This Year
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) grants the Academy Award for Best Actor each year. The Academy Awards are a renowned event, and fans eagerly await the news of whether their preferred actor will emerge victorious.?Best Actor Oscar Nominees 2024 have been announced and here are the five top actors vying for the prize were announced at this year's nomination ceremony in January. Let's take a look at them and their movies!
Best Actor Oscar Nominees 2024
1. Bradley Cooper - Maestro?
The marriage of American composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre is the subject of the 2023 biographical romantic drama film Maestro. Bradley Cooper directed it based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Josh Singer. Cooper, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Kristie Macosko Krieger produced it. Carey Mulligan plays Montealegre in the movie, while Cooper plays Bernstein. Sarah Silverman, Matt Bomer, and Maya Hawke have supporting roles.
Critics gave it favorable reviews, and the American Film Institute and National Board of Review both listed it among the top 10 movies of 2023.?Bradley Cooper in particular was lauded for his excellent scenes and physical transformation.
Where To Watch: Netflix
2. Colman Domingo - Rustin
George C. Wolfe's 2023 American biographical drama film Rustin is based on a script by Dustin Lance Black and Julian Breece, with Breece providing the storyline. Breece tells the biography of civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin ] Colman Domingo plays the film's lead role, and Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Aml Ameen, Gus Halper, CCH Pounder, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Johnny Ramey, Michael Potts, Jeffrey Wright, and Audra McDonald also feature. The movie is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production firm Higher Ground. Rustin, who assisted Martin Luther King Jr. and others in planning the 1963 March on Washington, is the real-life subject of this film. Reviews for the movie were largely good, and Domingo won multiple awards for his performance.
Where To Watch: Netflix
3. Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Alexander Payne is the director of the 2023 American comedy-drama film The Holdovers, which was written by David Hemingson. Paul Giamatti plays a tough classics instructor at a New England boarding school who is compelled to escort a few pupils who have nowhere to go over Christmas break in this film, which is set in December 1970 and January 1971. Da'Vine Joy Randolph portrays the manager of the school cafeteria, while Dominic Sessa plays a student who lives on campus.?
Where To Watch: Will release in Indian theaters on February 9, 2024.
4. Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan is the director of the 2023 epic biographical drama film Oppenheimer. As J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who is recognized as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his work on the Manhattan Project, the World War II initiative that produced the first nuclear weapons, Cillian Murphy plays Oppenheimer. The film's storyline, soundtrack, images, and performances all won plaudits from critics; Murphy, Blunt, and Downey garnered the greatest appreciation.
Where To Watch: Amazon Prime - Rent
5. Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
In his first feature film directing role, Cord Jefferson wrote and directed the comedy-drama American Fiction in 2023. Based on Percival Everett's 2001 novel Erasure, it tells the story of a dissatisfied professor-novelist who produces a bizarre satire of stereotypical "black" books, only for the liberal elite to mistake it for genuine literature. The book is then published to both great sales and critical acclaim. Starring Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown. On December 15, 2023, Amazon MGM Studios released it in limited theaters.. Positive reviews were given to it, and Wright's performance was much praised.
Where To Watch: Not available?
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