As an Oscar nominee and winner of the coveted Director’s Guild Award, The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper is obviously fielding many high-profile directing opportunities. But according to the L.A. Times, Hooper turned down one of the biggest directing jobs in recent memory, that of taking over Iron Man 3 from Jon Favreau. (Shane Black has since stepped up.) A similar situation arose last year with Kathryn Bigelow, who followed her Oscar win for The Hurt Locker by rejecting an offer to direct the forthcoming Spider-Man reboot in favor of her longtime passion project, Triple Frontier. Apparently, only Oscar-winning actors are willing to take part in superhero movies immediately after their wins.