Oscars 2024: Where to see the winning actors and nominees next

They wowed us with their Oscar-nominated performances, but where can you catch Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone and Robert Downey Jr next? We have the lowdown.

Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos have a special kind of alchemy. Of her five Oscar nominations (so far), two were for films directed by Lanthimos. She won her best actress award this year for playing the infant-brained to grown-up feminist Bella Baxter in his wildly original Poor Things, and got a supporting actress nomination as the wily 17th-Century striver in The Favourite (2018). Their much-anticipated next collaboration, Kinds of Kindness, arrives in just a few months. The film, teased by its distribtor as "a triptych fable", follows three contemporary stories. There are no details yet on who interacts with whom, but Stone is in it, along with a high-profile ensemble that includes her Poor Things castmates Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley, along with Jesse Plemons and Hong Chau. In the meantime, you can catch up with her oddball series The Curse, a dark comedy satirising do-gooderism and reality television, which landed on BBC Culture's best TV shows of 2023.

Kinds of Kindness is released on 21 June in the US

Downey's characters are a chameleon-like array, from Ironman to Charlie Chaplin and this year's Oscar-winning supporting actor role as Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer's sinister political nemesis. Next, Downey gets to be a chameleon all in one series. He plays four different parts in The Sympathizer (not counting his off-screen role as an executive producer) just right for a shape-shifting actor. The show is based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set during the Vietnam War years, about a North Vietnamese spy operating in South Vietnam and later in the US. Downey's multiple roles, including one in which he has a clownish frizz of red hair, represent various aspects of US institutional power. The great Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is among the series' directors, adding to Downey's list of top-flight collaborators.

The Sympathizer premieres on HBO and Max on 14 April in the US and later this year on Sky in the UK

Even before her heart-breaking, Oscar-nominated role in Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone was lining up attention-getting projects, and her next is almost here.  She stars opposite Riley Keough in Under the Bridge, a fact-based story about the murder of a teenaged girl in British Columbia, in which Gladstone plays the police officer investigating the homicide. And her film Fancy Dance, a drama centred on Indigenous women that got raves at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, finally has a distributor, perhaps thanks to her awards-season run. Gladstone stars as Jax, who goes on a road trip with her niece to look for the girl's missing mother. Harper's Bazaar said the film is "led by the always great Lily Gladstone in career-best form". The Oscar nomination was a harbinger of other good things. She has lined up a leading role in The Memory Police, a sci-fi mind-bender based on Yōko Ogawa's novel, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Reed Morano (The Handmaid's Tale).

Under the Bridge premieres on Hulu on 17 April in the US. Fancy Dance is released in cinemas and on Apple TV+ internationally later this year

Barbenheimer was just the beginning. Ryan Gosling may have lost the supporting actor race this year, but there is wide agreement that he stole the Oscar show with his performance of I'm Just Ken. Emily Blunt didn't win supporting actress, but she and Gosling were fun as presenters sending up their Barbie v Oppenheimer box office showdown. And being paired as presenters was really a tease for The Fall Guy, an action romcom with Gosling as a former stunt man called in to save a movie directed by his ex, played by Blunt. The film got delirious responses when it premiered recently at the South by Southwest Festival. Indiewire called it a "giddy example of popcorn filmmaking at its most cheerful and enthusiastic" and The Guardian said it is "utterly charming". In a smaller role, Blunt is one of the many voices in her husband John Krasinski's family film, IF, about a girl with imaginary friends. When you lose an Oscar, having a new hit film is the best revenge.

The Fall Guy is released on 2 May in the UK and 3 May in the US. IF is released on 17 May

De Niro works a lot, in lead and supporting roles. It's easy to forget that his first Oscar win, as the younger Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, was for supporting actor. And this year's nominated supporting role in Killers of the Flower Moon was among his best performances in years. His next supporting part is not likely to be Oscar bait, but who knows? In Ezra, Bobby Cannavale is the father of a boy with autism who goes on a road trip with his son. De Niro plays Cannavale's father, in a small film that earned reviews ranging from gently positive to underwhelmed at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). The other film De Niro has finished, Barry Levinson's Alto Knights, is a gangster movie in which he plays both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, so he basically takes out a hit on himself. Its release date recently moved from an awards season slot in November to March 2025, not a great sign. But De Niro keeps moving, with a major role in the Netflix conspiracy-thriller series Zero Day, in production now.

Ezra is released on 31 May in the US

Cillian Murphy's best actor Oscar was for a film as big as they get, but his next after Oppenheimer has its size right there in the title. Small Things Like These got terrific reviews when it opened the Berlin Film Festival in February, with Murphy praised for his nuanced performance as a father in 1980s Ireland grappling with his knowledge about the notorious Magdalene Laundries, where unwed mothers were used as indentured servants. The Guardian said Murphy's eyes reveal his character as "the witness to something terrible not just in the real world but within himself". Murphy, one of the film's producers along with Oppenheimer co-star Matt Damon, told Sight and Sound, "We were already trying to get Small Things off the ground when Oppenheimer came along. The scale of any project is secondary." Surprisingly, the film does not yet have a US or UK distributor, but after Murphy's Oscar win that is sure to change. Further off, Steven Knight, creator of the series Peaky Blinders, recently said Murphy will definitely return for the spinoff film, set to start shooting this fall.

There are rich roles in prestigious projects like Maestro. A highlight of that film is Carey Mulligan's moving Oscar-nominated performance as Felicia Montealegre, married to the genius Leonard Bernstein. Then there are workaday parts that an amazing actress like Mulligan can make better than anyone expects. You can catch her in one of those slighter roles in the new film Spaceman, as a pregnant woman ready to leave her husband (Adam Sandler), an astronaut on a solo mission who has long conversations with a giant, eerie spiderlike creature. Critics widely agreed that the film doesn't work, but no one blames Mullligan. Even Vulture's negative review said she "strikes just the right note of sultry despair" and rogerebert.com said "with Mulligan there is a tangible inner life despite the material". Ouch for the film, good for Mulligan.

Spaceman is streaming on Netflix internationally

Domingo's dynamic performance towered over the rather ordinary biopic Rustin, and was powerful enough to earn him a best actor nomination. There is already Oscar buzz for his next role, in Sing Sing, named after the prison in upstate New York. In this reality-based film, Domingo plays John Whitfield, known as Divine G, who started a theatre program while wrongly incarcerated for murder. The film combines a few professional actors with former inmates playing versions of themselves in a hybrid that had audiences cheering at TIFF and South by Southwest, where it won the Festival Favourite audience award. "The film brought SXSW to tears – and bowled them over with laughter", the Daily Beast wrote. Domingo attended that SXSW premiere even though it took place just two days before the Oscars. "Larger films will get the love and amplification that they need," he told Variety at the time. "A film like this needs its star."

Sing Sing is released in July in the US

With five nominations, including one for best actress this year for Nyad, Bening is practically in a revolving door of Oscar races, never out for long. But like so many actors, she is moving fluidly between film and television, and is at the centre of the new series Apples Never Fall, based on Liane Moriarty's bestselling novel about a family in a state of upheaval. Bening plays the mother of four grown children, who goes missing at the start of the show, but no worries. She is a dominant presence throughout in flashbacks, and Bening makes her character fierce and vivid. Bening also has a supporting role in the upcoming Poolman, directed by and starring Chris Pine, a would-be noir comedy that got a dismal response at the Toronto Film Festival and has a ghastly 23% on Rotten Tomatoes. But Bening always has another Oscar possibility ahead. She will be in Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride, a fresh take on The Bride of Frankenstein transferred to 1930s Chicago, and set to open in 2025.

Apples Never Fall is streaming on Peacock in the UK. Poolman is released on 10 May in the US

Brown's Oscar nomination as supporting actor for American Fiction may well catapult him onto a higher platform professionally, with more money and bigger movie roles. He was always great artistically. But no one saw that nomination coming and his next project has him playing second fiddle (or maybe third) in Atlas, the Jennifer-Lopez-in-space movie on Netflix. Lopez plays an astronaut named Atlas, who has to engage with an AI to save herself and the rest of the world. (Why she didn't team up with Adam Sandler, another lonely astronaut in Netflix's Spaceman, is a good question. They might have saved each other.) And he has started shooting a new series called Paradise City, a thriller in which he plays the head of security for a former president. One element puts Brown firmly in his comfort zone: the new series was created by Dan Fogelman, who also created Brown's breakout hit show This is Us.

Atlas premieres on Netflix on 24 May internationally.

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