Summary
- Cristopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer took home a total of 7 Oscars at the Academy Awards 2024.
- While Cristopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy thanked the crew members in their acceptance speech, Robert Downey Junior boasted his unique flamboyance as always.
Like all the other award shows this year, Oscars 2024 was thoroughly dominated by Cristopher Nolan’s blockbuster, Oppenheimer. The movie bagged a total of seven Oscars, including the prestigious ‘Best Picture Award,’ ‘Best Director,’ and ‘Best Actor’ awards.
Along with the wins, Oppenheimer got 13 Oscar nominations at the 96th Academy Awards, which took place in Los Angeles on March 11.
The film is based on the life of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physics genius whose life takes a paradigm shift after he gets selected to lead the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Amid all the personal and professional troubles, Oppenheimer and his team create the infamous atom bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that would go on to change world politics forever.
Actor Cillian Murphy, who played the film’s titular character, received an Oscar for ‘Best Actor.’ Director Cristopher Nolan and Robert Downey Junior received Oscars in the ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Supporting Role’ categories, respectively.
Here is a list of all the Oscars won by Oppenheimer, along with their nominees:
1. Best Picture
Winner: “Oppenheimer”, Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan
Nominees: American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things, The Zone of Interest
2. Best Director
Winner: Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
Nominees: Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet, Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese, Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos, The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer
3. Best Actor
Winner: Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
Nominees: Bradley Cooper – Maestro, Colman Domingo – Rustin, Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers, Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
4. Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Robert Downey Jr, “Oppenheimer”
Nominees: Sterling K Brown – American Fiction, Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling – Barbie, Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
5. Best Original Score
Winner: Oppenheimer
Nominees: American Fiction, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things
6. Best Film Editing
Winner: Oppenheimer
Nominees: Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things
7. Best Cinematography
Winner: Oppenheimer
Nominees: El Conde, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Poor Things
After receiving the award, Cillian Murphy expressed his gratitude to Oppenheimer’s entire cast and crew and thanked the world’s peacekeepers for tirelessly working to stop another Hiroshima-Nagasaki debacle from happening.
We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or worse we are living in Oppenheimer’s world. So I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere,
Meanwhile, Robert Downey Jr., in his own unique way, thanked his messed-up childhood and the academy for his Oscar.
I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the academy — in that order.
Finally, Cristopher Nolan expressed his gratitude to the entire fraternity for recognizing him as an integral part of the rich history of movies and cinema.
Movies are just a little bit over a hundred years old. Imagine being there a hundred years into painting or theater.
We don’t know where this incredible journey is going from here, but to know that you think I’m a meaningful part of it means the world to me. Thank you very much.
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8. About Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is a movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It’s based on the Pulitzer-winning book ‘American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer’ by the late Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird. The movie is produced by Nolan, his wife Emma Thomas and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist who is now considered the Father of the Atomic Bomb. He was responsible for the research and development of the first nuclear bombs, later called the Manhattan Project.
The biographical movie by Nolan sees Peaky Blinders’ star Cillian Murphy essaying the lead role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie released in theaters on July 21, 2023.
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