Off the top of my head:
Robert Downey Jr.
Ben Affleck
Robert Redford
Samuel Jackson
Jennifer Lawrence
Halle Berry
Natalie Portman
Anthony Hopkins
Nicholas Cage
Don Cheadle
Then there’s a ****load I’m not 100% sure about
Ian McKellan is another one.
Ruffalo and Renner.
Hugh Jackman (nominated for Les Miserables)
Sideways, but…
Branagh (Director, Thor)
Also Upcoming,
Djimon Housou, Guardians of the Galaxy
Glenn Close, Ditto
Willem Dafoe
Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley
Gwenyth Paltrow
Thomas Haden Church (Sandman in Spider-Man 3) - Nominated for supporting work in “Sideways”
Upcoming (Amazing Spiderman 2):
Paul Giamatti (nominated for supporting work in “Cinderella Man”)
Jamie Foxx (multiple nods, and won for “Ray”)
Sally Field (multiple nods/wins)
Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke.
Cliff Robertson (Best Actor winner for Charly) was Uncle Ben in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man series – that series and the reboot have quite a few Oscar nominees.
Here’s are some obscure ones…
**Kris Kristofferson **in “Blade”. Nominated for Best Original Score for the movie “Songwriter” in '84.
Lou Gossett, Jr in “The Punisher” - Winner of Best Supporting Actor for “An Officer & a Gentleman”
David Paymer and **Tim Robbins **for mother-effing “Howard the Duck.” Paymer was nominated for “Mr. Saturday Night” and Robbins won for “Mystic River” (and nominated for others.)
Oh, and less obscure, but Michael Clarke Duncan was in “Daredevil” and was nominated for “The Green Mile”.
I remember Anna Paquin and Bruce Davison being noted for this when X-MEN debuted.
Edward Norton (derp, brain fart) William Hurt.
IIRC, Tommy Lee Jones won for The Fugitive long before Captain America.
Jennifer Connelly
Michael Fassbender
James Franco
Nick Nolte
Tim Roth
Damn. I think the better question is quickly becoming, who hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar in the Marvel movies. This even spreads to non-Marvel produced stuff from Sony and others too. THat’s amazing.
Laurence Fishburne
Peter Fonda
Rosemary Harris
Terence Stamp
Or perhaps another question–what was the last year that none of the nominated actors included one to appear in a Marvel movie?
Stanley Tucci was nominated a few years back.