Actor Cillian Murphy won his first win at the 2024 Oscars in the Best Actor category thanks to his role in the film Oppenheimer. The victory was announced at the top of the Oscar night which was held at the Dolby Theater, Los Angeles on Sunday March 10, 2024 local time.
Cillian Murphy achieved this achievement after the actor received this nomination for the first time in his career. "Thank you to The Academy. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, this has been the craziest journey in 20 years," said Cillian Murphy in his victory speech, quoted on Monday March 11, 2024.
"Every Oppenheimer team and cast, all the nominees, I am in awe of all of you... I dedicate this win to those who create peace everywhere," he continued. Cillian Murphy won Best Actor after playing J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer in 2023.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was a physicist who created the atomic bomb as a tool to end World War II. In this category, Murphy also competed with a number of actors from other films, such as Bradley Cooper from the film Maestro, Paul Giamatti from The Holdovers, Colman Domingo from Rustin, and Jeffrey Wright from American Fiction.
On the other hand, Oppenheimer managed to emerge as the film with the most nominations at the 2024 Oscars after winning 13 prestigious categories. On that peak night, Oppenheimer successfully won awards in 7 categories, starting from Best Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr, Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone, to Best Adapted Screenplay.
In the Best Picture nomination, Oppenheimer's film competed fiercely with nine other popular films, such as Anatomy of a Fall, Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, and Greta Gerwig's film Barbie which was shown on the same date as Oppenheimer.
Meanwhile, in second place with the most nominations is the film Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos which received 11 nominations. Poor Things was successful in entering a number of prestigious categories, including the Best Director category where Lanthimos competed against Christopher Nolan.
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