Who is Cillian Murphy, the actor leading the Oscar race?

This year’s best actor Oscar race is led by Cillian Murphywhich already won at the 2024 Golden Globes thanks to ‘Oppenheimer’but the great work of Paul Giamatti en ‘The Holdovers’ could truncate the aspirations of the Irish interpreter.

The 96th edition of the Oscars, which will be held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles this coming Sunday, also has Bradley Cooper (‘Maestro’), Colman Domingo (‘Rustin’) and Jeffrey Wright (‘American Fiction’) as candidates for best interpreter of the course.

A section that surprisingly did not reach Leonardo DiCapriowhose portrayal of the criminal Ernest Burkhart in the film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, directed by Martin Scorsese, was not considered by the Hollywood Academy.

The most successful performance so far this awards season has been that of Murphy, who plays the role of theoretical physicist and father of the atomic bomb Robert J. Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster thriller, after also winning at the British BAFTAs and at the US Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The Irishman, who seems to have left behind his acclaimed role as gangster Thomas Shelby in the series ‘Peaky Blinders’, could also win the Oscar in the year in which he makes his debut as a nominee.

The only one who could avoid Murphy’s success, according to most experts in the seventh art, is Giamatti, who already triumphed at the Critics Choice Awards for playing Professor Paul Hunham in the Christmas-themed comedy-drama ‘The Holdovers’by filmmaker Alexander Payne.

At 56 years old, the American actor and comedian has a highly respected career in the industry due to his great versatility – he was already nominated for best supporting performer for ‘Cinderella Man’ in 2006 – and could emerge as one of the big surprises. of this delivery.