List of accolades received by Iron Man (2008 film)
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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 (MCU). Directed by Jon Favreau and written by the teams of Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, the film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, and Shaun Toub. In the film, following his escape from captivity by a terrorist group, world-famous industrialist and master engineer Stark builds a mechanized suit of armor and becomes the superhero Iron Man.[1]
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| Nominations | 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The film premiered in Sydney, Australia, on April 14, 2008,[2] and was released in the United States on May 2 as the first film in Phase One of the MCU.[3][4] Produced on a budget of $150 million,[5] it grossed over $585 million and becoming the eighth-highest grossing film of 2008.[6] It also received positive reviews from critics, who praised Downey's performance and Favreau's balance of character development and special effects,[7] and was named one of the ten best films of the year by the American Film Institute.[8] In 2022, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[9]
Iron Man received numerous awards and nominations with particular recognition for Downey's performance, the visual effects, and the sound editing. It was nominated for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects at the 81st Academy Awards, with other accolades including nominations for an Art Directors Guild Award, an Artios Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Cinema Audio Society Award, a Costume Designers Guild Award, a Critics' Choice Award, three Golden Reel Awards, a Grammy Award, a Hugo Award, four Satellite Awards (winning two), eight Saturn Awards (winning three), a Screen Actors Guild Award, and five Visual Effects Society Awards.