There have been 17 people in the MCU that have won an Academy Award. Can you name them all? And this is only the Avengers MCU. So it doesn't include X-Men movies, Deadpool, etc.

  1. Cate Blanchett played Hela in Thor: Ragnarok.
    1. She won Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator, and Best Actress for Blue Jasmine.
  2. Jeff Bridges played Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger in Iron Man.
    1. He won Best Actor for Crazy Heart.
  3. Brie Larson plays Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel in Captain Marvel.
    1. She won Best Actress for Room.
  4. Michael Douglas plays Hank Pym in the Ant-Mani movies.
    1. He won Best Actor in Wall Street.
  5. Anthony Hopkins played Odin in the Thor movies.
    1. He won Best Actor for Silence of the Lambs.
  6. William Hurt was General "Thunderbolt" Ross in The Incredible Hulk and Captain America: Civil War.
    1. He won Best Actor for Kiss of the Spider Woman.
  7. Tommy Lee Jones played Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger.
    1. He won Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive.
  8. Ben Kingsley was the Mandarin (sort of) in Iron Man 3.
    1. He won Best Actor for Gandhi.
  9. Lupita Nyong'o who plays Nakia in Black Panther.
    1. She won Best Supporting Actress for 12 Years a Slave.
  10. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Pepper Potts in Iron Man and other movies.
    1. She won Best Actress for Shakespeare in Love.
  11. Natalie Portman plays Jane Foster in the first two Thor movies.
    1. She won Best Actress for Black Swan.
  12. Robert Redford played Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
    1. He won Best Director for Ordinary People.
  13. Sam Rockwell played Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2.
    1. He won Best Supporting Actor for Three Billhoards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
  14. Tilda Swinton was The Ancient One in Doctor Strange.
    1. She won Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton.
  15. Marisa Tomei who plays Aunt May in the Spider-Man movies.
    1. She was Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny.
  16. Benicio Del Toro who played The Collector in different movies.
    1. He won Best Supporting Actor for Traffic.
  17. Forest Whitaker played Zuri in Black Panther.
    1. He won Best Actor for The Last King of Scotland.

 

 

 

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