Stan Lee launches comedy Oscar campaign

The godfather of Marvel comics, Stan Lee, has starred in a comedy Oscar campaign video which pokes fun at his many film cameos.

In the short film, Lee begs Academy Awards organisers to "fix the Oscars by adding a best cameo category".

He says: "Hello Academy, it's Stan Lee here. I want to talk about a serious problem with the Oscars - I haven't won one.

"You know, the Oscars have turned a blind eye to my body of work as a cameo artist. I don't know, people think that cameos are fluff and nonsense - dead wrong.

"Every boy wants to be a superhero right? Not me, I wanted to be a cameo actor - they're the real heroes."

Lee has had cameos in several of Marvel recent movies including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Iron Man. He recently finished filming a cameo for Kenneth Branagh's Thor.

Stan Lee's Oscar Campaign was unveiled on comedy website Funny or Die.