With the Oscars rapidly approaching, it's time to take a closer look at the distinguished nominees in the best actor category. The roles played by this year's best actor nominees span a wide range of characters from a future president to a cultural icon to a religious figure.
Of the group, Brody is the only one who has won the award before, and Stan is the only one who hasn't been nominated in the category before.
The 97th Oscars will take place Sunday, March 2, at 7 p. It will be televised on ABC, streamed on Hulu and will air live in more than territories worldwide. Keep reading for everything to know about this year's best actor nominees. Brody has won the award once before for his role as Wadysaw Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor and pianist, in "The Pianist.
The actor won the Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture drama in January as well as best actor honors at the Critics Choice Award. And it takes a movie of this magnitude to even have the potential to be received like this, and I just was so -- I feel very blessed and moved to have even have been a part of this," Brody told "Good Morning America" in January. The film and Brody's role in particular have faced some criticism after an interview with an editor on the film resurfaced, revealing artificial intelligence was used in some areas of Brody and co-star Felicity Jones' Hungarian language dialogue.
Director Brady Corbet has responded to the controversy, saying in a statement to "Good Morning America" that the actors' roles are "completely their own" and AI was used on certain vowels and letters in Hungarian dialogue for accuracy's sake. Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language was changed," he said. Corbet added, "This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production.
