Hugh Jackman played Wolverine across nine films over seventeen years, which is the longest any actor has held a superhero role, and he was a last-minute replacement cast three weeks into shooting the first one.
Logan is where it pays off, playing the character old, dying and out of options, and it is the only film of its kind to receive a screenplay nomination.
He is a serious musical theatre performer, won a Tony for The Boy from Oz, and was nominated for Les Misérables.
The Prestige and Prisoners show the dramatic range, and he hosted the Academy Awards, which he did better than most film actors manage.
Hugh JackmanPrisoners (2013) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two girls disappear on Thanksgiving and one of their fathers abducts and tortures the man he believes responsible. Roger Deakins shot it, Villeneuve directed it, and the film refuses…
Christian Bale2006 Christopher Nolan period thriller with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival Victorian magicians destroying each other. The Prestige is Christopher Nolan's 2006 American period thriller.
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Famke JanssenJames Mangold's first Wolverine film. Japan setting, bullet train sequence, the foundation that led to Logan.
Anna PaquinBryan Singer's foundation of modern superhero cinema. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman's debut.
Emma CorrinHugh Jackman's nostalgia return at the cost of Logan's emotional finality. Wesley Snipes's Blade, the comic-source costume, and excessive snarkiness.
Danny HustonHugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber's underrated Sabretooth, and the Deadpool handling that damaged the property for years. The 9 reflects an origin handled exactly right and a Deadpool finale worth skipping.
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