2025 Academy Awards Actor Series

Nominee: Adrien Brody
Picture for Nomination: The Brutalist
Age: 51
From: United States
Filmography: Asteroid City (2023), Fool's Paradise (2023), Ghosted (2023), Manodrome (2023), Blonde (2022), See How They Run (2022), The French Dispatch (2021), Clean (2021), Air Strike (2018), Bullet Head (2017), Manhattan Night (2016), Septembers of Shiraz (2015), Backtrack (2015), Dragon Blade (2015), American Heist (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Third Person (2013), InAPPropriate Comedy (2013), Back to 1942 (2012), Midnight in Paris (2011), Detachment (2011), Wrecked (2010), The Experiment (2010), Predators (2010), High School (2010), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Splice (2009), Giallo (2009), Cadillac Records (2008), The Brothers Bloom (2008), A Matador's Mistress (2008), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Hollywoodland (2006), King Kong (2005), The Jacket (2005), The Village (2004), The Singing Detective (2003), The Pianist (2002), Dummy (2002), The Affair of the Necklace (2001), Love the Hard Way (2001), Harrison's Flowers (2000), Bread and Roses (2000), Liberty Heights (1999), Oxygen (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), The Thin Red Line (1998), Restaurant (1998), Six Ways to Sunday (1997), The Undertaker's Wedding (1997), , The Last Time I Committed Suicied (1997), Solo (1996), Bullet (1996), Ten Benny (1995), Angels in the Outfield (1994), King of the Hill (1993), The Boy Who Cried Bitch (1991), New York Stories (1989)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
2003 Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Pianist

Achievements in Acting:
2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The Brutalist
2025 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor for The Brutalist
2025 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for The Brutalist
2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The Pianist
2003 BAFTA Film Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The Pianist
2003 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for The Pianist

Nominee: Timothée Chalamet
Picture for Nomination: A Complete Unknown
Age: 29
From: United States
Filmography: Dune: Part Two (2024), Wonka (2023), Entergalactic (2022), Bones and All (2022), Don't Look Up (2021), Dune (2021), The French Dispatch (2021), Little Women (2019), The King (2019), A Rainy Day in New York (2019), Beautiful Boy (2018), Hostiles (2017), Lady Bird (2017), Hot Summer Nights (2017), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Miss Stevens (2016), Love the Coopers (2015), The Adderall Diaries (2015), One and Two (2015), Interstellar (2014), Worst Friends (2014), Men, Women and Children (2014)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
2018 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Call Me by Your Name

Achievements in Acting:
2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for A Complete Unknown
2025 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for A Complete Unknown
2025 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for A Complete Unknown
2024 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Nomination for Wonka
2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for Beautiful Boy
2019 BAFTA Film Awards Best Supporting Actor Nomination for Beautiful Boy
2019 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for Beautiful Boy
2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Call Me by Your Name
2018 BAFTA Film Award Best Leading Actor Nomination for Call Me by Your Name
2018 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Call Me by Your Name

Nominee: Colman Domingo
Picture for Nomination: Sing Sing
Age: 55
From: United States
Filmography: Drive-Away Dolls (2024), The Color Purple (2023), Rustin (2023), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (2023), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023), Candyman (2021), The God Committee (2021), Without Remorse (2021), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2020), Lucy in the Sky (2019), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), First Match (2018), Assassination Nation (2018), Culling Hens (2016), The Birth of a Nation (2016), Beautiful Something (2015), Selma (2014), Time Out of Mind (2014), The Butler (2013), Hair Brained (2013), All Is Bright (2013), 42 (2013), Newlyweeds (2013), Lincoln (2012), Red Hook Summer (2012), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Freedomland (2006), Kung Phooey! (2003), Desi's Looking for a New Girl (2002), True Crime (1999), Around the Fire (1998), Timepiece (1995)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
2024 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Rustin

Achievements in Acting:
2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Sing Sing
2025 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for Sing Sing
2025 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Sing Sing
2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Rustin
2024 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for Rustin
2024 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Rustin

Nominee: Ralph Fiennes
Picture for Nomination: Conclave
Age: 62
From: England
Filmography: The Return (2024), Macbeth (2024), The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024), Four Quartets (2022), National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy (2022), The Menu (2022), The King's Man (2021), No Time to Die (2021), The Forgiven (2021), The Dig (2021), Dolittle (2020), Coup 53 (2019), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), Official Secrets (2019), Holmes and Watson (2018), National Theatre Live: Antony and Cleopatra (2018), The White Crow (2018), Sea Sorrow (2017), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), Richard III (2016), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Spectre (2015), A Bigger Splash (2015), National Theatre Live: Man and Superman (2015), Two Women (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The Invisible Woman (2013), Skyfall (2012), Great Expectations (2012), Wrath of the Titans (2012), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Coriolanus (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), Cemetery Junction (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010), Nanny McPhee Returns (2010), The Wildest Dream (2010), The Reader (2008), The Hurt Locker (2008), The Duchess (2008), In Bruges (2008), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Bernard and Doris (2006), Land of the Blind (2006), Harry Potter and the Globet of Fire (2005), The White Countess (2005), Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Chromophobia (2005), The Chumscrubber (2005), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Good Thief (2002), Spider (2002), The End of the Affair (1999), The Miracle Maker (1999), Onegin (1999), Sunshine (1999), The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Avengers (1998), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), The English Patient (1996), Strange Days (1995), Quiz Show (1994), Schindler's List (1993), The Baby of Mâcon (1993), Wuthering Heights (1992)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
1997 Best Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The English Patient
1994 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for Schindler's List

Achievements in Acting:
2025 Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Conclave
2025 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for Conclave
2025 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Conclave
2023 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Nomination for The Menu
2015 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Nomination for The Grand Budapest Hotel
2009 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for The Duchess
2006 BAFTA Film Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The Constant Gardener
2000 BAFTA Film Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The End of the Affair
1997 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The English Patient
1997 BAFTA Film Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The English Patient
1997 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for The English Patient
1994 BAFTA Film Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Schindler's List
1994 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for Schindler's List

Nominee: Sebastian Stan
Picture for Nomination: The Apprentice
Age: 42
From: Romania
Filmography: A Different Man (2024), Dumb Money (2023), Ghosted (2023), Sharper (2023), Fresh (2022), The 355 (2022), Monday (2020), The Devil All the Time (2020), The Last Full Measure (2019), Endings, Beginnings (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018), Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (2018), Destroyer (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Black Panther (2018), I'm Not Here (2017), I, Tonya (2017), Logan Lucky (2017), Captain America: Civil War (2016), The Martian (2015), Ricki and the Flash (2015), Ant-Man (2015), The Bronze (2015), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), The Apparition (2012), Gone (2012), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Black Swan (2010), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), Spread (2009), Rachel Getting Married (2008), The Education of Charlie Banks (2007), The Covenant (2006), The Architect (2006), Red Doors (2005), Tony and Tina's Wedding (2004), 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
This is his first nomination in Acting Categories.

Achievements in Acting:
2025 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for The Apprentice
2025 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for A Different Man
2025 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for The Apprentice
2024 Berlin International Film Festival Best Leading Performance for A Different Man

Conclusion:
2 March 2025
Who Will Win Likely: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
Who May Be Alternate: Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown

24 February 2025
Who Will Win Likely: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
Who May Be Alternate: Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown

17 February 2025
Who Will Win Likely: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
Who May Be Alternate: Ralph Fiennes for Conclave

10 February 2025
Who Will Win Likely: Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown
Who May Be Alternate: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist

27 January 2025
Who Will Win Likely: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
Who May Be Alternate: Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown

Who Should Win: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
Who Got Snubbed: Daniel Craig for Queer, Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
Personal Favorite: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
Who Wins? Adrien Brody for The Brutalist

2024 Academy Awards Actor Series

Nominee: Bradley Cooper
Picture for Nomination: Maestro
Age: 49
From: United States
Filmography: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), Nightmare Alley (2021), Licorice Pizza (2021), Avengers: Endgame (2019), The Mule (2018), A Star Is Born (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), War Dogs (2016), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Joy (2015), Baby, Baby, Baby (2015), Burnt (2015), Aloha (2015), American Sniper (2014), Serena (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), American Hustle (2013), The Hangover Part III (2013), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Hit and Run (2012), The Words (2012), The Hangover Part II (2011), Limitless (2011), The A-Team (2010), Valentine's Day (2010), All About Steve (2009), Case 39 (2009), The Hangover (2009), He's Just Not That Into You (2009), Yes Man (2008), New York, I Love You (2008), The Rocker (2008), The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Older Than America (2008), The Comebacks (2007), Failure to Launch (2006), Wedding Crashers (2005), Bending All the Rules (2002), My Little Eye (2002), Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
2019 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for A Star Is Born
2015 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for American Sniper
2014 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for American Hustle
2013 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Silver Linings Playbook

Achievements in Acting:
2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Maestro
2024 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for Maestro
2024 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Maestro
2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for Licorice Pizza
2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for A Star Is Born
2019 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for A Star Is Born
2019 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for A Star Is Born
2014 BAFTA Film Awards Best Supporting Actor Nomination for American Hustle
2014 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for American Hustle
2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Silver Linings Playbook
2013 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for Silver Linings Playbook
2013 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Nomination for Silver Linings Playbook

Nominee: Colman Domingo
Picture for Nomination: Rustin
Age: 54
From: United States
Filmography: The Color Purple (2023), Sing Sing (2023), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (2023), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023), Candyman (2021), The God Committee (2021), Without Remorse (2021), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2020), Lucy in the Sky (2019), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), First Match (2018), Assassination Nation (2018), Culling Hens (2016), The Birth of a Nation (2016), Beautiful Something (2015), Selma (2014), Time Out of Mind (2014), The Butler (2013), Hair Brained (2013), All Is Bright (2013), 42 (2013), Newlyweeds (2013), Lincoln (2012), Red Hook Summer (2012), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Freedomland (2006), Kung Phooey! (2003), Desi's Looking for a New Girl (2002), True Crime (1999), Around the Fire (1998), Timepiece (1995)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
This is his first nomination in Acting Categories.

Achievements in Acting:
2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Rustin
2024 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for Rustin
2024 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Rustin

Nominee: Paul Giamatti
Picture for Nomination: The Holdovers
Age: 56
From: United States
Filmography: A Mouthful of Air (2021), Jungle Cruise (2021), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), I Think We're Alone Now (2018), White Fang (2018), The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), Private Life (2018), Morgan (2016), The Phenom (2016), Ratchet and Clank (2016), Amboy (2015), Straight Outta Compton (2015), April and the Extraordinary World (2015), The Little Prince (2015), San Andreas (2015), Love and Mercy (2014), Madame Bovary (2014), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), River of Fundament (2014), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Romeo and Juliet (2013), Parkland (2013), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Turbo (2013), The Congress (2013), All Is Bright (2013), Rock of Ages (2012), Cosmopolis (2012), Ernest and Celestine (2012), John Dies at the End (2012), The Ides of March (2011), The Hangover Part II (2011), Ironclad (2011), Win Win (2011), Barney's Version (2010), The Last Station (2009), Duplicity (2009), Cold Souls (2009), Pretty Bird (2008), Fred Claus (2007), Too Loud a Solitude (2007), The Nanny Diaries (2007), Shoot 'Em Up (2007), The Ant Bully (2006), Lady in the Water (2006), Asterix and the Vikings (2006), The Illusionist (2006), The Hawk Is Dying (2006), Cinderella Man (2005), Robots (2005), Sideways (2004), Paycheck (2003), Confidence (2003), American Splendor (2003), Thunderpants (2002), Big Fat Liar (2002), Planet of the Apes (2001), Storytelling (2001), Duets (2000), Big Momma's House (2000), Man on the Moon (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Safe Men (1998), The Negotiator (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Doctor Dolittle (1998), The Truman Show (1998), The Break (1997), Deconstructing Harry (1997), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Private Parts (1997), Donnie Brasco (1997), Arresting Gena (1997), Breathing Room (1996), Before and After (1996), Sabrina (1995), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Singles (1992), Past Midnight (1991)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
2006 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for Cinderella Man

Achievements in Acting:
2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for The Holdovers
2024 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor Nomination for The Holdovers
2024 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for The Holdovers
2011 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical for Barney's Version
2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Cinderella Man
2006 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for Cinderella Man
2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Sideways
2005 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Nomination for Sideways

Nominee: Cillian Murphy
Picture for Nomination: Oppenheimer
Age: 47
From: Ireland
Filmography: Kensuke's Kingdom (2023), The Quiet Place Part II (2020), Anna (2019), The Delinquent Season (2018), Dunkirk (2017), The Party (2017), Free Fire (2016), Anthropoid (2016), In the Heart of the Sea (2015), Transcendence (2014), Aloft (2014), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Broken (2012), Red Lights (2012), In Time (2011), Retreat (2011), TRON: Legacy (2010), Inception (2010), Peacock (2010), Perrier's Bounty (2009), The Dark Knight (2008), The Edge of Love (2008), Watching the Detectives (2007), Sunshine (2007), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), Red Eye (2005), Batman Begins (2005), Cold Mountain (2003), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Intermission (2003), 28 Days Later (2002), On the Edge (2001), How Harry Became a Tree (2001), Disco Pigs (2001), The Trench (1999), Sunburn (1999), Sweety Barrett (1998)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
This is his first nomination in Acting Categories.

Achievements in Acting:
2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Oppenheimer
2024 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actor for Oppenheimer
2024 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Oppenheimer
2006 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Nomination for Breakfast on Pluto

Nominee: Jeffrey Wright
Picture for Nomination: American Fiction
Age: 58
From: United States
Filmography: Rustin (2023), Asteroid City (2023), Fate of a Sport (2022), The Batman (2022), No Time to Die (2021), The French Dispatch (2021), All Day and a Night (2020), The Goldfinch (2019), The Laundromat (2019), Hold the Dark (2018), O.G. (2018), Age Out (2018), Game Night (2018), The Public (2018), Monster (2018), The Good Dinosaur (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), A Single Shot (2013), The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete (2013), Broken City (2013), Ernest and Celestine (2012), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), The Ides of March (2011), Source Code (2011), Cadillac Records (2008), Quantum of Solace (2008), W. (2008), Blackout (2007), The Invasion (2007), Chicago 10 (2007), Casino Royale (2006), Lady in the Water (2006), Syriana (2005), Broken Flowers (2005), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Sin's Kitchen (2004), Eye See You (2002), Ali (2001), Shaft (2000), Cement (2000), Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000), Hamlet (2000), Ride with the Devil (1999), The Giraffe (1998), Celebrity (1998), Too Tired to Die (1998), Critical Care (1997), Basquiat (1996), Faithful (1996), Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1991), Presumed Innocent (1990)

Academy Awards History in Acting:
This is his first nomination in Acting Categories.

Achievements in Acting:
2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for American Fiction
2024 Golden Globes Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Nomination for American Fiction

Conclusion:
10 March 2024
Who Will Win Likely: Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
Who May Be Alternate: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers

26 February 2024
Who Will Win Likely: Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
Who May Be Alternate: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers

14 February 2024
Who Will Win Likely: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers
Who May Be Alternate: Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer

29 January 2024
Who Will Win Likely: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers
Who May Be Alternate: Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer

Who Should Win: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers
Who Got Snubbed: Leonardo DiCaprio for Killers of the Flower Moon, Andrew Scott for All of Us Strangers
Personal Favorite: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers
Who Wins? Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer