A Star Is Born Isn't on Netflix (Yet), but These Other Bradley Cooper Movies Are!
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Once again, Bradley Cooper is front and center in the award season conversation. The star, coscreenwriter, and director of A Star Is Born is up for three separate awards at the upcoming Oscars: best actor, best adapted screenplay, and best picture (in his capacity as one of the film's lead producers) — although he missed out on a best director nod. With everyone buzzing about Cooper again, we're taking a look back at some of his best roles in the past. He's had an incredibly wide range, from gritty dramas to acid-tongued comedies to one very famous motion-capture CGI raccoon. You can catch several of his movies on Netflix — see which ones in the gallery ahead!
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Silver Linings Playbook
Pat has lost his job, lost his wife, and just got out of a mental institution. When he winds up living with his parents, he becomes obsessed with the idea of winning back his wife. Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a young widow, offers to help him win his wife back, but only if he'll be her partner in an upcoming ballroom dance competition.
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The Place Beyond the Pines
Cooper plays rookie cop Avery Cross in this crime drama, costarring Ryan Gosling as the motorcycle stuntman turned criminal whose confrontation with Avery comes to define the latter's life and career. Years after being hailed a hero for taking down a supposedly dangerous criminal, Avery becomes a whistleblower in the police department, then a politician, but he can't quite seem to shake his past.
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Burnt
Chef Adam Jones is a top Parisian chef, before an addiction-fueled meltdown nearly tanks his career. He gets a second chance when a former colleague hires him to run his London restaurant and pushes himself — and everyone around him — to the brink in pursuit of achieving a top rating in the culinary world.
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Cooper reprises his scene-stealing voice role as Rocket Raccoon in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel. Separated from his crew — aside from longtime buddy Groot — Rocket remains behind to guard Nebula, but ends up being taken prisoner and finding unlikely allies as he tries to reunite with the rest of the Guardians. Unbeknownst to him, they're dealing with an even bigger problem: the cosmic baddie who just happens to be Peter Quill's father.
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Avengers: Infinity War
Along with the rest of the Guardians, Cooper's Rocket Raccoon joins forces with the rest of the sprawling Marvel universe for the ultimate battle against Thanos. After joining the final fight (and hilariously teaming up with the Winter Soldier during the battle), Rocket is left standing with the remaining heroes to pick up the pieces from a horrible loss.