Ten 2024 Best Actor Oscar Nomination Contenders

 

Ten 2024 Best Actor Oscar Nomination Contenders

Bradley Cooper – Maestro (Netflix) - Maestro is an upcoming American biographical drama film directed by Bradley Cooper and produced by Director Martin Scorsese, Director Steven Spielberg, and Director Todd Phillips, as well as Cooper, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Josh Singer. It is based on the life of Leonard Bernstein, who worked as a conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. The film stars Cooper as Bernstein, Carey Mulligan, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, and Sarah Silverman. Maestro is scheduled to be released in 2023, by Netflix.

Colman Domingo – Rustin (Netflix) - Rustin is an upcoming American biographical drama film directed by George C. Wolfe from a screenplay written by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black. The film is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground Productions. The story revolves around gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King Jr. It is scheduled to be released on Netflix in 2023.

Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) – Limited Theater Release - Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic Western crime drama film directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth, based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann. Its plot centers on a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after oil was discovered on tribal land. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio alongside Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, and John Lithgow. It marks the seventh collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and the eleventh between Scorsese and De Niro.

David Strathairn – A Little Prayer (Sony Pictures Classics) - Tammy (Jane Levy) and husband David (Will Pullen) lead a quiet life in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sharing a home with David’s parents, Bill (David Strathairn) and Venida (Celia Weston). David and Bill work together and have always been closely involved in each other’s lives. When Bill begins to suspect that David is straying in his marriage, he is drawn into a relationship minefield, caught between wanting to protect his amicable daughter-in-law and trying to understand his impulsive son. As Bill confronts the limits of patriarchal influence, he is also forced to reckon with disheartening behavioral patterns that may be transcending generations.

Anthony Hopkins – Freud’s Last Session (Sony Pictures Classics) - Freud's Last Session is an upcoming film, based on the stage play of the same name by Mark St. Germain, which itself is based upon the book The Question of God, written by Armand Nicholi. The screenplay was written by St. Germain, with the film directed by Matt Brown and starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode. It tells of a meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud and the debate on God that follows, and discussions of the nature of their relationships with other people such as Freud’s daughter.

Barry Keoghan – Saltburn (Amazon Studios) - Saltburn is an upcoming black comedy-drama thriller film that began filming in July 2022, written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell. Premise is about a college student (Barry Keoghan) becomes obsessed over a rich classmate (Jacob Elordi) who is from an aristocratic family.          

Kingsley Ben-Adir – Marley, One Love (Paramount Pictures) - Bob Marley: One Love is about the biographical drama film about the life of singer and songwriter Bob Marley. Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, and written by Zach Baylin, Frank E. Flowers, and Terence Winter, the film stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley, alongside Lashana Lynch as Rita Marley, and Jesse Cilio as Norval Marley.

Joaquin Phoenix – Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures) - Napoleon is an upcoming historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa. It is based on the true story of Napoleon Bonaparte, primary depicting the French leader's rise to power as well as through the lens of his addictive and volatile relationship with Empress Joséphine. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, and Tahar Rahim. Napoleon is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 22, 2023, by Sony Pictures Releasing, before streaming on Apple TV+ at a later date.

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers (Focus Features) - The Holdovers is an upcoming American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson and starring Paul Giamatti. It will be given a limited release in theatres on November 10, 2023, followed by a wide release on November 22. The premise is about the disliked Deerfield Academy teacher Paul Hunham who is put in charge of supervising Angus, a smart and rebellious student unable to journey home for Christmas. Joining them is Mary, the school's head cook.

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) - Oppenheimer is an upcoming biographical thriller film directed, written and co-produced by Christopher Nolan about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, with a supporting ensemble cast including Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., and Florence Pugh. Oppenheimer is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom and United States on July 21, 2023, by Universal Pictures.