From Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars, Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux, Jamie Foxx in Stealth, to Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending, Oscar winners always ride the momentum of their award glory to the next prestige film.
So what's next for our Oscar winners?
Leo finally won so he can crawl back into the bear (supermodel) cave (mansion) and never work again right? Unlikely, although he has absolutely nothing on his slate at the moment except for staring at his Oscar muttering "the way of the future... the way of the future....". I would genuinely love to see Leo in a movie where he plays a unlucky in love animal services employee who keeps stealing Kathryn Heigl's dog so he can give it back to her and appear the hero, that gets 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. Lighten UP Leo! There are rumours of another Scorcese collaboration about a serial killer. Just the light material we're looking for.
Brie, Alicia, and Mark after the jump...
Belle of the ball Brie Larson has two films due this year and more in the pipeline. There's the Ben Wheatley Boston crime drama Free Fire that throws her in with Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley, Sam Riley and under appreciated Cillian Murphy. As with most crime films, there only appears to be one significant female role and Larson is The Girl. She is also appearing in Basmati Blues - and this is not a sentence I ever would think to write about a recent Oscar winner - a Bollywood musical about a scientist who takes her genetically modified rice to the fields of India. She actually told Nathaniel about it when he interviewed her for Short Term 12! (Brie one worked at becoming a pop star -- do yourself a favour and don't google her songs -- so this could be interesting. She'll also be stretching her blockbuster chops as the beauty set to kill the beast in Kong: Skull Island.
Mark Rylance has had even more success on stage then on screen, and will likely balance the two going forward. That being said, he's involved in two potentially mega films, one reteaming with Spielberg to play the title character in BFG, the other an unknown role in Dunkirk, which is the latest film announced from Christopher Nolan.
Alicia Vikander who appeared in every single move in 2015 is taking a year off to be physically touching Michael Fassbender whenever possible. KIDDING. She's got three more films coming out this year and more on the way. She is co-starring with current beau Fassbender in Derek Cianfrance's The Light Between the Oceans, and judging by the trailer she seems to have re-hydrated herself after the immense crying in The Danish Girl. Oscar nomination #2? She'll get to rock another frock in period drama Tulip Fever across from Christoph Waltz. The transition to megastar will be complete when she stars opposite Matt Damon in Jason Bourne as 'the girl he prefers to Julia Stiles'
So who's going to be the first to another nomination? What do you want to see next from them? Sound off in the comments with your suggestions and or Vikander+Fassbender fan fic.