Without looking it up, how many Oscar nominees have been in Marvel films?

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:eek: What heathenry is this!

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Challenge Accepted!

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Shohreh Aghdashloo
Ellen Page
Roy Scheider
John Travolta

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I thought you were making a joke about Peter Fonda being Captain America. I didn’t know he was in Ghost Rider.

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They just cast Michael Douglas for ANT-MAN, right?

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I only got back to the 2011 Oscars before I had to use a technicality.

Kenneth Branagh, director of Thor, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. And Glenn Close, who will appear in Guardians of the Galaxy, was nominated for Best Actress.

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Because you missed Nick Nolte.

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To be fair, Hulk is shit.

But I did find another technicality. The 2006 Oscars need Djimon Hounsou, who will be in Guardians of the Galaxy, to count.

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Don’t see any reason not to include the other GUARDIANS Oscar nominees:

Bradley Cooper
John C. Reilly
Benicio Del Toro

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1991 has Kenneth Branagh again, but it’s mostly a DC year:

Morgan Freeman
Michelle Pfeiffer
Marlon Brando

So 1991, if you only want to count actors.

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Bah! That should say 1989. But the absolute earliest year without any Marvel actors or technicalities is 1981:

Best Actor

Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
    Warren Beatty – Reds
    Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City
    Dudley Moore – Arthur
    Paul Newman – Absence of Malice

Best Actress

Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
    Diane Keaton – Reds
    Marsha Mason – Only When I Laugh
    Susan Sarandon – Atlantic City
    Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant's Woman

Best Supporting Actor

John Gielgud – Arthur
    James Coco – Only When I Laugh
    Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire
    Jack Nicholson – Reds
    Howard E. Rollins, Jr. – Ragtime

Best Supporting Actress

Maureen Stapleton – Reds
    Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
    Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond
    Joan Hackett – Only When I Laugh
    Elizabeth McGovern – Ragtime
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Great due diligence! Still, franchise mythology is pervasive, since Dick Tracy, Bilbo Baggins, and the Joker all still make appearances here.

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Elizabeth McGovern was in Kick-Ass, which was a comic published by Marvel, although I don’t know if it was a true “Marvel film”

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In point of fact, Melinda Dillon was in the first Captain America movie.

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By my count, it’s the Oscars for '72 – when Jor-El beat out Alfred the faithful butler for Best Actor, since Redford’s The Candidate only picked up a Best Screenplay win.

But the year before that, we’re back to Jeff Bridges, which is still pretty impressive.

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Whoops.

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Incidentally, the awful Captain America movie from the '90s also gives us Ned Beatty.

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Bumping to maybe correct that post of mine there, since Michael Caine arguably now puts 1972 in play thanks to his upcoming role in Kingsman.

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…and, since the original point of this thread momentarily eluded me, let me come back around to note that Oscar winner Colin Firth is in that one too.

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Yeah, as mentioned above…better luck finding non-Oscar nominees.