What marks the peak of actor Michael Fassbender's career thus far? His role as the stuffy film critic turned British army Left-tenant Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" is great fun, while few ( except maybe Fassbender himself ) would contest that he was a worthy successor to Ian McKellen as a younger Magneto in the "X-Men" movies. Similarly, his performance as the android David, a twisted scientist with an oedipus complex, is always ranked as the highlight of "Prometheus" and "Alien: Covenant."

Ask the Academy, though, and apparently it will say 2013's "12 Years A Slave" — Fassbender got a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing sadistic slaver Edwin Epps — and 2015's "Steve Jobs," where playing (who else?) Steve Jobs netted him a Best Actor nod. The mid-20

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