Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has mentioned fellow Irishman and Oscar nominee Cillian Murphy would make a “magnificent” 007.

“Cillian would do a magnificent job as James Bond on His Majesty’s Secret Service,” Brosnan advised the BBC.

Brosnan was talking on the annual Oscar Wilde awards, which rejoice Irish inventive expertise in Los Angeles.

Murphy, who was additionally in attendance on the occasion at JJ Abrams’s Bad Robot Productions in Santa Monica, is favorite to win greatest actor on the 96th Oscar awards on Sunday for his titular position in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

He mentioned he had not heard the Bond rumours himself and in addition revealed that he had probably not considered probably profitable the Academy Award: “I just want to go in and have a good time.”

He’s up in opposition to Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Bradley Cooper (Maestro) and Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction).

Murphy additionally spoke about his son Aran, 16, who’s making his movie debut in Taika Waititi’s Klara And The Sun.

“I’m very proud of him, he’s a great actor,” he advised reporters on the Irish-themed inexperienced carpet, including that Aran did not want his dad’s recommendation.

Brosnan mentioned he was “greatly honoured” to be given an Oscar Wilde award for his contributions to the movie and TV trade.

He praised the “kinship” between Ireland and America, including that he got here to the US in 1982 “on a wing and a prayer… and then got a job, [on drama series] Remington Steele”.

Speaking about his homeland’s wealthy vein of expertise, he advised the BBC: “We come from a landscape of poetry… they’re great storytellers.”

The different honourees this 12 months had been Irish visible results supervisor Richie Baneham and Irish-American actress and comic Molly Shannon.

Shannon, who discovered fame on Saturday Night Live (SNL) within the Nineties, mentioned she was “so touched… I feel a deep connection to Ireland”.

Two-time Oscar winner Baneham, joked: “People keep telling me I’m being upstaged by James Bond (Brosnan) – but truly, I know him as Remington Steele.”

Baneham received his first greatest visible results on the Academy Awards for 2009 film Avatar, after which picked up a win in the identical class final 12 months for the long-awaited follow-up, Avatar: The Way of Water. The director of each movies, James Cameron, offered Baneham along with his honour.

Baneham can be engaged on the third Avatar movie, attributable to be launched in December 2025.

Speaking to the BBC about this 12 months’s Oscars crop, he mentioned he had “a soft spot” for visible results nominee Godzilla Minus One “because it’s such a small movie”.

He described Oppenheimer as “a beast of a movie, it’s a massive undertaking” including: “Hopefully Cillian does really well out of it (on Sunday).”

But his prime tip? “Poor Things is a real winner. It’s a breath of fresh air as far as filmmaking’s concerned.”

And the movie has a giant Irish hand in it – alongside its star Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos, are Irish producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures.

Its 11 Oscar nominations mark a document for an Irish-produced movie.