Academy Awards, along with nominations in nine other categories, winning three technical awards. MacKay stars in Nathalie Biancheri's film Wolf alongside Lily-Rose Depp, for which principal photography began in Ireland in August 2020. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021 as the entry for Ireland, and was theatrically release on 3 December 2021. In 2022, MacKay starred in Christian Schwochow’s film Munich – The Edge of War for Netflix. Upcoming projects As of September 2021 Mackay was reportedly under consideration, along with several other men, to succeed Daniel Craig in the role of James Bond. In October 2021, he was cast in a Golden Age musical film The End along with Tilda Swinton and Stephen Graham, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. In May 2022, it was announced that Mackay is set to star in revenge thriller Femme alongside Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. Artistry and media reception MacKay has been called a method actor by multiple media sources. With his acting roles, MacKay stated that he wanted "as much as [he] can to try and explore different roles and different characters, that's important to [him]". Flaunt writer Elizabeth Aubrey stated that MacKay is "someone who knows all about big parts" as illustrated in his lead roles in Sam Mendes' Academy Award-winning 1917 and Justin Kurzel's daring True History of the Kelly Gang. Aubrey added that for Mackay, "going to extremes when preparing for a role isn't something new" and that his roles are "chosen by a desire to push the boundaries of storytelling, to ask challenging questions about identity, and leave audiences with more questions than answers via stories that start important cultural conversations". The Last Magazine writer Jonathan Shia stated that, "MacKay's CV is notable for both its length and its breadth, but he says the connecting thread is that he looks to each of his disparate projects to bring something new to his career". MacKay himself has stated that he is inspired to put his best in every role he takes saying that, "The beauty of acting is that it is done ultimately in a very safe environment, and therefore the consequences are just the consequences of the story [...] Those things might not have actually happened to you, but they will be rooted in some kind of experience". The Independent writer Alexandra Pollard wrote that MacKay's roles are tactically "chosen to broaden his perspective on the