Of the films we have already seen, Chadwick Boseman buffed his stardom in the lead role in Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther,” while Joaquin Phoenix took home Best Actor at Cannes as a brutal killer trying to save a young girl from the sex trade in “You Were Never Really Here.”Returning Oscar winners will likely include “The Irishman” star Robert De Niro –who last scored a Supporting Actor nomination for “Silver Linings Playbook” in 2013 — and “The Old Man and the Gun” veteran Robert Redford, who won his last (honorary) Oscar in 2002.
Up-and-down shape-shifter Christian Bale gained 40 pounds to play Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s “Backseat”; Ryan Gosling also takes on an iconic figure, moon-walking astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle’s “First Man”; bearded Willem Dafoe follows up last year’s nomination for “The Florida Project” as Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s “At Eternity’s
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