Cork’s Cillian Murphy will be presenting an Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards
We’ll be watching.
Cork Oscar winner Cillian Murphy will be making a return to the Oscars stage this year to present the Oscar for Best Actor.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that last year’s winners—Murphy, who took home the statue last year for Oppenheimer, will join Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr., and Da’Vine Joy Randolph—in handing over the 2025 Oscars for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress at the 97th annual Academy Awards on March 2nd.
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This year’s big show will be hosted by Conan O’Brien.
The heavy-hitters include Emilia Pérez, with 13 nominations, The Brutalist and Wicked. Best Picture nominees include The Substance, the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Anora, I’m Still Here, and Nickel Boys.
According to the latest predictions, Murphy will likely to handing over the Oscar for Best Actor to Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), or Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).
What’s next for Mr Murphy?
With the new Peaky Blinders movie in post-production, rumour has it Cillian could be considering the role of Professor Quirinus Quirrell in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter reboot.
In the meantime, he stars in the upcoming movie Steve, a Netflix reimagining of Max Porter’s best-selling novel Shy, which follows a headteacher battling for his reform college’s survival while managing his mental health.
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Fans are also eagerly awaiting Blood Runs Coal, the story of a miner killed by a corrupt union leader, and his son, an attorney, who embarks on a quest for justice, unraveling a web of deceit and violence.
Watch this space.
