What is the name of this 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, in which Jeff Bridges earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in the film?
Iron Man (2008 film) Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film was directed by Jon Favreau, with a screenplay by the writing teams of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. It stars Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, and Gwyneth Paltrow. In "Iron Man", Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer, builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero Iron Man.
List of Marvel Cinematic Universe film actors The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of superhero films independently produced by Marvel Studios, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. of the franchise includes five films, featuring four different superhero properties, leading up to a crossover in the 2012 film "Marvel's The Avengers". The franchise's Phase Two features three sequel films to properties that appeared in Phase One, as well as two new film properties, and the crossover "", which released in 2015. Phase Three will feature four sequel films to previous properties, and four new film properties, as well as the two-part crossover event "" and its untitled sequel.