Oppenheimer wins 7 Oscar awards including best picture

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer has triumphed at this year’s Oscars taking home seven awards including best picture, best actor and best director.

The drama, telling the story of the “father of the atomic bomb”, lost the box office battle to Barbie during last summer, but has now won the awards war with Greta Gerwig’s Mattel comedy winning just one Oscar for best original song.

Cillian Murphy was named best actor for his performance, beating out Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright, and Robert Downey Jr was named best supporting actor, up against Robert De Niro and Ryan Gosling, reports The Guardian.

Murphy, winning his first Oscar from his first nomination, is also the first ever Irish-born winner in his category. “I’m a little overwhelmed,” he said before dedicating his award “to the peacemakers everywhere”.
Downey Jr won his first Oscar after being nominated twice before for Chaplin and Tropic Thunder. “I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the Academy in that order,” he said before later adding: “I needed this job more than it needed me.”

Nolan picked up his first best director Oscar, after being nominated previously for Dunkirk, beating out Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Glazer. When speaking about cinema in his speech he said: “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.”

The film also won for editing, cinematography and score.

Here is a list of this year’s Oscar winners in different categories.

Best Picture: Oppenheimer

Best Director: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Best Actor: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Best Actress: Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr (Oppenheimer)

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction

Best Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall

Best Visual Effects: Godzilla Minus One

Best Costume Design: Poor Things

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Poor Things

Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer

Best Production Design: Poor Things

Best Sound: The Zone of Interest

Best Film Editing: Oppenheimer

Best Original Score: Oppenheimer

Best Original Song: “What Was I Made For” — Barbie

Best Animated Short Film: War Is Over!

Best Live-Action Short Film: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best Documentary Short Film: The Last Repair Shop

Best Documentary Feature Film: 20 Days in Mariupol

Best International Feature Film: The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Best Animated Feature Film: The Boy and the Heron