As we inch closer to the 2024Oscarsnominations, the battle forawards seasongold is heating up.

Its bold, transformative, shocking, and sees the performer exploring uncharted places both physically and emotionally.

Emma Stone in Poor Things; Oscars Award Statuette; Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon

2024 Oscars predictions.Searchlight ; AMPAS ; Apple TV+ - Design: Alex Sandoval

Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’

‘Oppenheimer’ star Cillian Murphy.Universal Pictures

Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese on the set of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ set.Paramount Pictures

Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.

Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’.Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon

Lily Gladstone in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.Apple TV+

Robert Downey Jr is Lewis Strauss in OPPENHEIMER, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan

Robert Downey Jr. in ‘Oppenheimer’.Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

THE HOLDOVERS

Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Paul Giamatti in ‘The Holdovers’.Seacia Pavao/FOCUS FEATURES

Miles Morales as Spider-Man (Shameik Moore) in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’.Sony Pictures Animation