First-time Oscar nominees Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, America Ferrera

About a dozen actors will now have an Academy Awards section added to their awards and nominations page on Wikipedia. Bright and early Tuesday morning, Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the 2024 Oscar nominations live from Los Angeles. With 20 nominees in four acting categories, some of the names were past nominees and winners — such as Jodie Foster, Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper. But 10 nominees had their names announced for the first time in their careers.

Cillian Murphy became a first-time Academy Award nominee for his performance in the lead role in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture-nominated film. Oppenheimer. The 47-year-old actor has appeared in dozens of films since the late 1990s, including a Nolan-directed film that has earned several Oscar nods. Batman trilogy but none received praise for his particular acting role. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the 2024 Academy Awards.

Oppenheimer It also paved the way for Emily Blunt to become a first-time Oscar nominee, an achievement she owes to her breakout performance in this. The Devil Wears Prada

In 2006. Blunt starred alongside Murphy as Catherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Her performance in the film’s intense interrogation scene may have sealed the deal for the Academy, as much as it did for online cinephiles who raved and reminisced about her endlessly. She is nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Speaking of scene-stealing women, America Ferrera – whose viral monologue from Greta Gerwig’s Best Picture-nominated film Barbie Started nuanced discussions about feminism’s entry points — now she’s an Academy Award-nominated actress. She juggled motherhood with on-screen existentialism and became an emotional mentor to Margot Robbie’s Barbie. More than 20 years after making her feature film debut, Ferreira is nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

In fact, only one of this year’s five best supporting actresses has been nominated for an Academy Award in the past. In addition to Blunt and Ferreira, Da’Vine Joey Randolph and Daniel Brooks are also first-time nominees at the ceremony.

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Brooks won, with a supporting nomination Color purple His only nomination at the 2024 Oscars. The actress appeared in the musical edition of the film as Sophia, who Oprah Winfrey portrayed in the original 1985 film. Between 2015 and 2017, Brooks played the same role on stage, starring in a Broadway production. Color purple Bernard B. at the Jacobs Theatre.

Randolph similarly made the transition from theater to the big screen a decade ago. Last year, she presented George C. Wolff made a splash in Hollywood with his performance in both films Rustin

and of Alexander Paine Holdover. She is nominated in the supporting category for the latter role, giving an emotional performance as the grieving Mary Lamb, a cafeteria manager who loses her son in the Vietnam War.

Brooks and Randolph, though in different films, both shared set and screen time with a first-time Oscar nominee: Coleman Domingo. But his performance as civil rights activist Baird Rustin in Rustin earned him a nomination for Best Actor. Now 54, Domingo has been acting professionally since the nineties, appearing in Academy Award-nominated films. Selma

, Lincoln, If Beale Street could talk, and more. Domingo also did remarkably well in this one Euphoria Special episode “Trouble Doesn’t Always Last.”

of Cord Jefferson American Fiction Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Brown received two first-time nominations with the nod. The pair played brothers in the Best Picture-nominated film. Just last year, Wright also appeared Rustin And Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. Meanwhile, Brown has delivered an Emmy-award winning performance The People Vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story and This Is Us.

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The class of first-time nominees at this year’s Oscars also includes a history-making nomination for Lily Gladstone. The actress became the first Native American woman to be nominated for best actress at the Academy Awards on Tuesday for her role as Osage woman and historical figure Molly Burkhart. Assassins of Flower Moon. Even in scenes shared with Leonardo DiCaprio, who was not nominated for the lead role as her husband Ernest Burkhart, Gladstone’s presence was magnetic.

Sandra Huyler uncovers a collection of first-time nominated actors and actresses. The German actress appeared in Jonathan Glazer area of ​​interest and Justin Triats Anatomy of a Fall – and both are up for Best Picture – but her lead role in it Anatomy of a Fall She got a nod for Best Actress. She is nominated for the award alongside Gladstone, Stone, Annette Bening and Carey Mulligan.