Michael Cera

Michael Austin Cera (/ˈsɛrə/ SERR-ə; Italian: [ˈtʃeːra]; born June 7, 1988)[1] is a Canadian actor. Known for portraying awkward, shy, and offbeat characters, his most recognized roles include Evan in Superbad and Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
He has had numerous roles in United States television and film productions, and is particularly known for playing the aforementioned character of Evan in Superbad (2007), along with Paulie Bleeker in Juno (2007), Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023), a fictional version of himself in This Is the End (2013), and Allan in Barbie (2023). Other starring roles include in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), and Youth in Revolt (2009). Cera also has had dramatic roles in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Molly's Game (2017), and Gloria Bell (2019). He voiced Dick Grayson/Robin in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Barry in Sausage Party (2016), and Sal Viscuso, the voice behind the announcements in Childrens Hospital.
Cera is also known for his Broadway performances in the Kenneth Lonergan plays This Is Our Youth in 2014, Lobby Hero in 2018, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and The Waverly Gallery in 2019. In addition to acting, Cera is a musician, having released his debut album True That in 2014. Cera has also performed as the touring bassist for indie rock supergroup Mister Heavenly.
== Early life ==
Cera was born on June 7, 1988, in Brampton, Ontario. He is the son of Linda (née Cockman) and Luigi Cera, a technician. He is of Sicilian descent through his father.[2] His parents both worked for Xerox.[3] Cera has an older sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Molly. He became interested in acting after viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox at the age of three.[4] Cera memorized all the dialogue and idolized Bill Murray.[5] He enrolled in The Second City, Toronto, and took improvisation classes.[5]
Cera attended Conestoga Public School, Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School, and Heart Lake Secondary School until grade nine. After starting acting, he completed school online through grade 12.[6][7]
== Career ==
=== 1999–2008: Child acting and breakthrough ===
His first role was an unpaid appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial.[6][7][8] That appearance eventually landed him a position in a Pillsbury commercial, in which he poked the Pillsbury Doughboy and had his first role with lines.[9]
In 1999, Cera was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian children's show I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, which ran for two seasons.[10] That year, he also appeared in the television films What Katy Did and Switching Goals, starring the Olsen twins.[11]
The next year Cera made his theatrical film debut in the science fiction film Frequency (2000) as the son of Noah Emmerich's character.[11] Cera also appeared in the films Steal This Movie! and Ultimate G's: Zac's Flying Dream in 2000. He had his first leading role in the latter film, which was presented in IMAX theaters.[12][13] Cera appeared in several television films in 2001, including My Louisiana Sky and The Familiar Stranger. He also began voicing Josh Spitz in the animated series Braceface, which he continued until 2004.[11]
In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris (played by Sam Rockwell) in the George Clooney-directed film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.[14] He provided the voice for Brother Bear – an anthropomorphic bear – in the 2003 The Berenstain Bears animated series, which aired for three seasons.[13]"Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode."He had a role in the critically panned Fox pilot The Grubbs in 2002, which was never aired.[15][16] But Cera successfully auditioned for a part in another Fox sitcom, Arrested Development. This began airing in November 2003 and ran for three seasons.[16] The show follows the formerly wealthy and dysfunctional Bluth family, with Cera playing George Michael Bluth, the teenage son of character Michael Bluth, played by Jason Bateman.[17] After three seasons, Fox canceled the series in 2006 due to low viewership, although it had received critical acclaim.[18] In 2006, Cera created and starred in a parody of Impossible is Nothing, a video résumé created by Aleksey Vayner.[19] Cera and his Arrested Development co-star Alia Shawkat guest-starred as a pair of college students in the teen noir drama Veronica Mars, in the episode "The Rapes of Graff" in 2006.[20]
Along with best friend Clark Duke, Cera wrote and starred in a series of short videos released on their website.[16] Duke originated the idea, as he was enrolled at Loyola Marymount University and used their videos for his film school studies.[21] In 2007, the pair signed a deal with CBS Television to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled Clark and Michael. The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt, and was distributed via CBS's internet channel, CBS Innertube.[22]
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In May 2007, Cera appeared in a staged comedy video that shows him being fired from the lead role of the film Knocked Up, after belittling and arguing with its director Judd Apatow, in a scene that mocks the David O. Russell blow up on the set of I Heart Huckabees.[16] Cera starred in the Apatow-produced teen comedy Superbad alongside Jonah Hill. Their characters in the film – two virgin teenagers about to graduate from high school whose party plans go awry – were based on the comedy's writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.[23] Superbad was released in cinemas in August 2007, topping the US box office for two weeks in a row.[24]
Cera's performance was critically acclaimed: The Atlantic reviewer said that the film "belongs to Michael Cera" for capturing "teenage sexual abashment as indelibly as he did in the role of George Michael [on Arrested Development]."[25] The New York Times said that he was "excellent" and CNN praised Cera and Hill for playing "off each other beautifully".[26][27]
In November 2007, Cera hosted a live, staged version of Saturday Night Live; it was not broadcast due to the ongoing 2007 Writers Guild of America Strike.[28][7] In his second film of 2007, Cera co-starred in Juno as Paulie Bleeker, a teenager who has impregnated his long-time school friend Juno (played by Elliot Page).[29] For Superbad and Juno, Cera won Breakthrough Artist in the Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2007, and was included in Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" list in February 2008.[30][31]
Cera starred alongside Kat Dennings in the romantic comedy-drama Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), in which they played two strangers who bond over their shared love of a band and try to find their secret show.[32] He starred in the comedy Extreme Movie (2008), which was composed of vignettes focusing on teen sex.[33] Cera held a recurring role on the comedy series Childrens Hospital from 2008 to 2016 as Sal Viscuso, a hospital staffer who is known only by his voice through an intercom.[34]
=== 2009–2013: Varied success and stage debut ===
link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Cera_as_Captain_America_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|Cera dressed as Captain America to promote Scott Pilgrim vs. the World at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con
Cera played a fictionalized version of himself in the independent romantic comedy Paper Heart (2009). It explored the fictional relationship between Cera and the film's writer Charlyne Yi, also playing herself. Cera and Yi composed the film's score together.[35] That year Cera starred opposite Jack Black in the comedy Year One, set during the Stone Age. The film, directed by Harold Ramis, was poorly received, although Time magazine critic Mary Pols said that Cera's performance saved the film from being a "catastrophe".[36] In his final film of 2009, Cera starred in Youth in Revolt, an adaptation of the eponymous novel. He played a shy teenager named Nick Twisp who creates a destructive alter ego, François Dillinger, after becoming smitten with a girl, played by Portia Doubleday.[16][37]
Cera had also begun to write. His first published short story, "Pinecone", appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly thirtieth issue in 2009.[38]
Cera was cast as Scott Pilgrim in the film adaptation of the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film's director, Edgar Wright, had seen his work in Arrested Development and believed that Cera was an actor "audiences will still follow even when the character is being a bit of an ass."[39] The film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, follows Pilgrim, a musician who must battle the seven evil exes of his girlfriend Ramona (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead). It was released in cinemas in August 2010. It did poorly at the box office, grossing $47.7 million against a production budget of $85–90 million.[40][41]
Cera made a guest appearance in "The Daughter Also Rises", a 2012 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, as the voice of Nick, a love interest to Lisa Simpson.[42]
Cera made his theater debut in a production of Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth in a two-week run during March 2012 at the Sydney Opera House. The play also featured his Scott Pilgrim co-stars Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson.[43] A Broadway production at the Cort Theater opened in September 2014 and closed in January 2015. The New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley praised Cera for achieving "something remarkable": "the sense of an amorphous being assuming and losing shape in the course of roughly 12 hours".[44] Also in 2012, Cera played a supporting role in the drama The End of Love and appeared in the short film The Immigrant.[45][46]
Arrested Development was revived for a fourth season in 2012 by Netflix, with Cera reprising his role as George Michael Bluth. Cera also worked in the writers' room and served as a consulting producer during its production.[47] The season was released in May 2013.[48]
Cera collaborated with Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva on two films in 2013 – Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus – both of which were filmed in Chile and premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[49] He spent "five hours a day learning Spanish" for Magic Magic.[50] Cera was featured most prominently in Crystal Fairy, in which he starred as a self-absorbed man travelling Chile with a woman named "Crystal Fairy" (played by Gaby Hoffmann) while bearing a cactus.[49] Along with Reggie Watts, Tim & Eric, and Sarah Silverman, Cera created the web-based comedy YouTube channel Jash in March 2013, where he has posted short films which he directs and/or stars in.[51][52] These films include the comedy-drama Gregory Go Boom (2013), in which Cera played a paraplegic man, and his directorial debut Brazzaville Teen-Ager (2013), co-starring Charles Grodin as his sick father.[53][54] He played an exaggerated version of himself in the apocalyptic comedy film This Is the End, which was released in summer of 2013 and featured his Superbad co-stars Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen.[55] Throughout 2013, Cera also appeared on Burning Love, a web spoof of reality dating competition shows,[56] and on an episode of Drunk History as John Endecott. Cera had previously played Alexander Hamilton in a comedic retelling of Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr on the show's first episode as a web series in 2008 before it was adapted into a television show.[57]
=== 2014–present ===
Cera appeared with his Arrested Development co-star David Cross' 2014 film Hits, playing a marijuana dealer.[58] He also co-starred alongside John Hawkes and Sally Hawkins in Charlie Kaufman's television pilot How & Why, which was rejected by FX.[59] After a brief, "menacing" appearance in the drama Entertainment (2015),[60] Cera appeared in the prequel to the 2001 comedy film Wet Hot American Summer, the comedy series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp and in the Christmas musical comedy film A Very Murray Christmas as Bill Murray's fictional talent agent.[61] Cera then voiced a hot dog trying to escape his fate in a supermarket in the animated comedy Sausage Party (2016).[62] In 2015, Cera made a cameo on Louis C.K.'s Louie on FX, in the season five episode "Sleepover" alongside Glenn Close, John Lithgow, and Matthew Broderick.[63]
Cera had five film releases in 2017, the first of which was the animated superhero comedy The Lego Batman Movie, in which he voiced the Batman's sidekick Robin.[62] He played a supporting role as a sleazy car salesman in the comedy How to Be a Latin Lover and co-starred in Janicza Bravo's first full-length feature, the comedy-drama Lemon. He played an actor described as having a "wedge of hair that makes him look like Frédéric Chopin crossed with Eraserhead", by Variety critic Owen Gleiberman.[64][65] Cera starred opposite Abbi Jacobson in the drama Person to Person, focusing on the struggles of different people over the course of one day in New York City. Cera and Jacobson are featured as a pair of crime reporters investigating a possible murder.[66] In his final film of the year, Aaron Sorkin's crime drama Molly's Game, Cera played a celebrity known only as Player X who participates in a high-stakes, underground poker empire run by Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain). Cera's fictional character in the film was said to be a composite character of celebrity poker players and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck.[67]
A "giant fan" of director David Lynch,[62] Cera made a guest appearance in the 2017 revival of Lynch and Mark Frost's television show Twin Peaks in the show's fourth episode, as Wally "Brando" Brennan, the son of Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan and his wife Lucy Brennan.[68] The appearance contained several references to the work of actor Marlon Brando: Wally shares the same birthday and is nicknamed after Brando.[68] Cera returned to the stage in March 2018, starring in a second Kenneth Lonergan production, Lobby Hero, at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway. The play also stars Chris Evans, Brian Tyree Henry and Bel Powley.[69] Cera and Henry were both nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play at the 72nd Tony Awards.[70] Cera return to Broadway in October 2018, starring in a third Kenneth Lonergan production, a revival of The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. Cera took a supporting role as a painter acting alongside Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, and Joan Allen.[71]
Cera co-starred in the 2018 film drama Gloria Bell, with Julianne Moore as the title character.[72] Cera returned to his role as George Michael Bluth in the fifth season of Arrested Development in 2018.[73] In 2021, Cera lent his voice to the adult animated film Cryptozoo.[74] Cera appeared in the 2022 animated comedy Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank about a dog who wishes to become a samurai.[75] In 2023, he starred opposite Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in the fantasy comedy film Barbie as Allan. In August 2023, he said he was working on getting financing to direct his first movie,[76] naming an adaptation of Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis as one of two possible directorial debuts, having narrowly beaten out Clark Duke when first securing the adaptation rights.[77][78]
=== Music ===
link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Cera_2011.jpg|right|thumb|Cera performing in 2011
In 2010, Cera contributed mandolin and backing vocals to the Weezer song "Hang On" from their album Hurley.[79] Cera has also established himself as the touring bass player in Mister Heavenly, an indie rock band originating in the American northwest,[80] and is a member of the band The Long Goodbye, along with Clark Duke.[81] Cera also played bass and sang back up during songs in both Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. He released his full-length debut album True That on August 8, 2014, through his official Bandcamp page.[82][83] The album features 19 original tracks, a cover of Roderick Falconer's "Play It Again" as well as a cover of Blaze Foley's "Clay Pigeons."[84]
In early 2015, Canadian musician Alden Penner released "Meditate", a track from his upcoming EP Canada in Space, which features Cera. Penner subsequently announced that the EP would be released on June 29, 2015, on City Slang records, as well as a European tour of the UK, Netherlands, France, and Germany, which featured Cera as both co-headliner and member of Penner's backing band.[85][86] The song "Best I Can" from the film Dina, written and performed by Cera and featuring Sharon Van Etten, was nominated for 'Best Song in a Documentary' at the 2017 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.[87]
== Personal life ==
Cera has been very private about his personal life.[88] In 2016, Aubrey Plaza made public that the pair had dated for about 18 months after filming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in 2010 and considered getting married. The two remain friends.[89]
In March 2022, Amy Schumer accidentally revealed that Cera was a father.[88] Later that month, he revealed to Extra that the baby was a six-month-old boy with his wife Nadine.[90]
As of August 2023, Cera resides in New York City.[91][92][better source needed]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2000	Frequency 	Gordy Hersch Jr. (Age 10) 	
2000	Steal This Movie! 	america Hoffman (Age 7–8) 	
2000	Ultimate G's: Zac's Flying Dream 	Young Zac 	
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 	Chuck Barris (Age 8–11) 	
2007	Superbad 	Evan 	
2007	Juno 	Paulie Bleeker 	
2008	Extreme Movie 	Fred 	
2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Nick O'Leary 	
2009	Paper Heart 	Himself 	
2009	Year One 	Oh 	
2009	Youth in Revolt 	Nick Twisp / François Dillinger	
2010	Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation 	Scott Pilgrim 	Short film; voice
2010	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 	Scott Pilgrim 	
2012	The End of Love 	Michael 	
2012	The Immigrant 	Michael 	Short film
2013	Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus	Jamie 	
2013	Magic Magic 	Brink 	Also executive producer
2013	Brazzaville Teen-Ager 	Gunther 	Short film; also director and writer
2013	Failure 	Man 	Short film; also director and writer
2013	This Is the End 	Himself 	
2013	Gregory Go Boom 	Gregory 	Short film
2013	Bitch 	Himself 	Short film; also director and writer
2014	Hits 	Bennie 	
2015	Entertainment 	Tommy 	
2015	That Dog 	Tim 	Short film
2015	A Very Murray Christmas 	Jackie the Talent Agent 	
2016	Sausage Party 	Barry 	Voice
2016	Man Rots from the Head 	Sydney Ward 	Short film
2017	Person to Person 	Phil 	
2017	Lemon 	Alex 	
2017	The Lego Batman Movie 	Richard "Dick" Grayson / Robin 	Voice
2017	How to Be a Latin Lover 	Remy 	
2017	Cooking with Alfred 	Richard "Dick" Grayson / Robin 	Voice; Short film
2017	Molly's Game 	Player X 	
2018	Tyrel 	Alan 	
2018	Spivak 	Robby LeBeau 	
2018	Gloria Bell 	Peter 	
2021	Cryptozoo 	Matthew 	Voice
2022	Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank 	Hank 	Voice
2023	The Adults 	Eric 	
2023	Barbie 	Allan 	
2023	Dream Scenario 	Trent 	
2023	Under the Boardwalk 	Armen 	Voice
2024	Christmas Eve in Miller's Point 	TBA 	Post-production[93]
2024	Sacramento 	Glenn 	Post-production
TBA 	The Phoenician Scheme 	TBA 	Filming
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1999 	Twice in a Lifetime 	Skateboarder #2 	Episode: "The Blame Game"
1999–2001 	I Was a Sixth Grade Alien 	Larrabe Hicks 	Recurring role
1999 	Noddy 	Butch 	Episode: "Big Bullies"
1999 	Switching Goals 	Taylor 	Television film
1999 	What Katy Did 	Dorry 	Television film
2000 	La Femme Nikita 	Jerome 	Episode: "He Came from Four"
2000 	Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series 	Benjamin 	Voice; Episode: "The Best Partner"
2001 	George Shrinks 	Cadwell Boy 	Episode: "Speed Shrinks"
2001 	Doc 	Max 	2 episodes
2001 	The Ripping Friends 	Boy Boy/Young Boy 	Voice; 2 episodes
2001 	Stolen Miracle 	Brandon McKinley 	Television film
2001 	My Louisiana Sky 	Jesse Wade Thompson 	Television film
2001 	The Familiar Stranger 	Young Ted Welsh 	Television film
2001 	Walter and Henry 	Crying Kid 	Television film
2001–2004 	Braceface 	Josh Spitz 	Voice; Main role
2003–2004 	The Berenstain Bears 	Brother Bear 	Voice; Main role
2003 	Rolie Polie Olie 	Little Gizmo 	Voice; 4 episodes
2003 	Pecola 	Robbie Rabbit 	Voice; Main role
2003–2006;
2013–2019	Arrested Development 	George Michael Bluth 	Main role
Producer (season 4 and 5)
2005 	Wayside 	Todd 	Voice; Episode: "Pilot"
2006 	Veronica Mars 	Dean Rudolph 	Episode: "The Rapes of Graff"
2006 	Tom Goes to the Mayor 	Scrotch 	Voice; Episode: "Undercover"
2007 	Clark and Michael 	Mikey Cera 	Also co-creator, director, writer, editor and producer
2007 	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! 	Jamie Stevens 	Episode: "Cats"
2008–2016 	Childrens Hospital 	Sal Viscuso 	Voice; Recurring role
2012 	The Simpsons 	Nick 	Voice; Episode: "The Daughter Also Rises"
2012, 2015 	Comedy Bang! Bang! 	Himself 	2 episodes
2013 	Arcade Fire in Here Comes the Night Time 	Spanish Bartender 	Television special
2013 	Burning Love 	Wally 	6 episodes
2013–2016 	Drunk History 	Various 	3 episodes
2014 	Saturday Night Live 	Surrogate 	Episode: "Jonah Hill/Bastille"
2014 	How and Why 	Mendelsohn 	Pilot
2015 	Louie 	Young Man 	Episode: "Sleepover"
2015 	Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp	Jim Stansel 	3 episodes
2017 	Twin Peaks 	Wally "Brando" Brennan	Episode: "Part 4"
2018 	The Shivering Truth 	Delmer 	Voice; Episode: "Chaos Beknownst"
2019 	Weird City 	Tawny 	Episode: "A Family"
2020 	Medical Police 	Sal Viscuso 	3 episodes
2020 	At Home with Amy Sedaris 	Travis 	Episode: "Valentine's Day"
2022 	The Boys Presents: Diabolical 	Great Wide Wonder 	Voice; Episode: "I'm Your Pusher"
2022–present	Life & Beth 	John 	Main role
2023 	Celebrity Jeopardy! 	Himself 	2 episodes
2023 	Black Mirror 	Beppe 	Episode: "Joan Is Awful"
2023 	Command Z 	Kerning Fealty 	Web series
2023 	Praise Petey[94] 	Little Einstein 	Voice; 2 episodes
2023 	Scott Pilgrim Takes Off 	Scott Pilgrim 	Voice; Main role
2024 	Sausage Party: Foodtopia 	Barry 	Voice
=== Stage ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Theatre
2012	This Is Our Youth 	Warren Straub	Sydney Opera House
2014	This Is Our Youth 	Warren Straub	Steppenwolf Theatre
2014	This Is Our Youth 	Warren Straub	Cort Theatre
2018	Lobby Hero 	Jeff 	Helen Hayes Theatre
2018	The Waverly Gallery	Don Bowman 	John Golden Theatre
== Discography ==
Studio albums
* True That (2014)[82][83]
Soundtrack
* Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2010)
== Bibliography ==
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== Awards and nominations ==
Year	Nominated work 	Award 	Category 	Result
2002	My Louisiana Sky 	Young Artist Award 	Supporting Young Actor - Television 	Nominated
2004	Arrested Development 	TV Land Award 	TV Land Future Classic Award 	Won
2005	Arrested Development 	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series 	Nominated
2006	Arrested Development 	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series 	Nominated
2007	Juno 	Chicago Film Critics Association	Most Promising Performer 	Won
2007	Juno 	Austin Film Critics Association 	Breakthrough Artist Award 	Won
2007	Superbad 	Austin Film Critics Association 	Breakthrough Artist Award 	Won
2008	Superbad 	Critics' Choice Movie Awards 	Best Young Performer 	Nominated
2008	Juno 	Critics' Choice Movie Awards 	Best Young Performer 	Nominated
2008	Juno 	Critics' Choice Movie Awards 	Best Acting Ensemble 	Nominated
2008	Superbad 	Canadian Comedy Awards 	Best Male Performance 	Nominated
2008	Superbad 	MTV Movie Awards 	Breakthrough Performance 	Nominated
2008	Juno 	MTV Movie Awards 	Best Kiss (Shared with Elliot Page) 	Nominated
2008	Juno 	MTV Movie Awards 	Best Male Performance 	Nominated
2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Satellite Awards 	Best Actor: Comedy or Musical 	Nominated
2008	Superbad 	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Movie Actor: Comedy 	Nominated
2008	Superbad 	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Movie Breakout: Male 	Nominated
2008	Juno 	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Movie: Liplock (Shared with Elliot Page) 	Won
2008	Juno 	Teen Choice Awards 	Best Movie Actor: Comedy 	Nominated
2008	Juno 	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Movie Breakout: Male 	Nominated
2008	Himself 	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Comedian 	Nominated
2009	Himself 	BAFTA Rising Star Award 	BAFTA Rising Star Award 	Nominated
2009	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Movie Actor: Music/Dance 	Nominated
2010	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 	Satellite Awards 	Best Actor: Comedy or Musical 	Won
2011	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Movie Actor: Action 	Nominated
2014	Arrested Development 	Screen Actors Guild Awards 	Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series 	Nominated
2018	Lobby Hero 	Tony Awards 	Best Featured Actor in a Play 	Nominated
2023	Barbie 	Screen Actors Guild Awards 	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Nominated
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