Ryan Reynolds Calls Eddie Murphy Not Receiving Oscar Nom for 'The Nutty Professor' 'One of the Greatest Injustices'

Ryan Reynolds believes Eddie Murphy missed out on an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor franchise.

The Deadpool & Wolverine star was a guest on an episode of podcast Variety Awards Circuit , published last Thursday (November 7), where, around the 41-minute mark, he was asked about the first film that made him "fall in love with movies." Although the 48-year-old couldn't pinpoint one particular film, he mentioned 1986 coming-of-age drama Stand By Me, 1981 comedy Stripes and 1987 adventure-comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles. But Murphy stood out as one of Reynolds favorite Hollywood stars.

"I would watch Eddie Murphy's stand-up comedy, and I would be doing, like, trying on clothes as a personality, I would be doing impressions of all of these people, all of the time, memorizing how they moved, what they did," Reynolds said.

Around the 48-minute mark, Reynolds returned to discussing Murphy, particularly The Nutty Professor and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.

"If you ask me, one of the greatest injustices is that Eddie Murphy doesn't have an Oscar for The Nutty Professor or The Klumps. Just the fact that he could sit at a table with 10...be 10 different characters at one table, that is singular."

"And that is a kind of talent that I don't know that we've, at this stage in our scientific journey of life, could understand fully," he added.

While the 1996 and 2000 science fiction comedies didn't land Murphy a Best Actor nomination, The Nutty Professor for Best Makeup category at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997. Murphy's only Oscar nomination to date is for Best Supporting Actor for his role of James (Jimmy) "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls.