Thousands Of Marvel Fans Sign Petition To Get Robert Downey Jr An Oscar Nomination This Year!

This year was a great year for cinema. With films like Avengers: Endgame taking over the audiences fandom to Joker being the current obsession, 2019 saw many great movies including John Wick 3, The Lion King, Toy Story 4 among others.

Yet, Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame remains to be one of the biggest movies in the history. MCU fans are, hence, pushing for the epic superhero movie to get recognition at the Oscars 2019.

Fans want Robert Downey Jr aka Iron Man aka Tony Stark’s nomination under the Best Actor category. However, Disney ‘for your consideration’ doesn’t have his name. This has led fans to appeal to Academy Awards as well as Disney to acknowledge him.

Not one or two, several Change.org petitions have been started by the fans, which are now being supported by thousands of fans. According to Comicbook.com, the petitions had started months ago, but they started gaining more votes when Disney snubbed Robert Downey Jr’s nomination.

"Robert Downey Jr deserves an Oscar for his great performance in each Marvel movie and deserves credit for starting the biggest film franchise currently," a petition created by Aamod BK reads.

Another petition from Diana Whatley reads that the undersigned "were so moved by Mr. Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame that we believe he is unquestionably deserving of the Academy’s Award for Best Actor."

Even Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo think Robert Downey Jr. deserves an Oscar. “His cumulative body of work from these movies is staggering. If you look at the work over just even the last four [Marvel] films he's done, it's phenomenal. .?.?. He deserves an Oscar perhaps more than anyone in the last 40 years because of the way that he has motivated popular culture,” Joe said while speaking to Washington Post.

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