That’s no surprise Oppenheimer came out on top at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 7.
The film received five awards throughout the evening, including the biggest award of the evening: Best Film – Drama. Oppenheimer‘s director Christopher Nolan was awarded Best Director Cillian Murphy winning Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his title role as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Robert Downey Jr. also took the stage when he was awarded Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture for his role as Lewis Strauss. Ludwig Göransson took home a Golden Globe when he collected the award for Best Original Score.
The first of the 2024 awards ceremonies took place Sunday night at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and was a star-studded affair. After a year full of high-profile films – and months of anticipation – Hollywood’s top films discovered which film would emerge victorious.
When the Golden Globe nominees were announced in December 2023, Barbie topped the list with nine nominations – the most this year. Together with Margot Robbie And Ryan Gosling being eligible for acting awards after playing Barbie and Ken respectively, the film had three songs in the Best Original Song category. Billie Eilish‘What Was I Made For’ (which won), Dua Lipa‘Dance the Night’ and Gosling’s ‘I’m Just Ken’ were all nominated for that award. The director of the film Greta Gerwig and her husband, Noah Baumbachwere also nominated together in the Best Screenplay category.
The idea was to compete against Barbie Oppenheimer with eight nominations. This is of course quite reminiscent of the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon that took over the internet in July 2023. Both films were released on the same day last year and netizens made memes of the films’ starkly different aesthetics.
‘I think it happened because both films were good’ Cillian Murphywho played J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biographical film, Barbie’s Robbie said during Variety‘S “Actors on actors” series in December 2023. “In fact, there was a tremendous diversity of things in theaters that summer, and I think it just connected in a way that you or I or the studios or anyone could never have predicted. “
Aside from the film’s five wins, Emily Blunt was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Director Nolan also received a nod for Best Screenplay. The film was also nominated overall for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, which Barbie eventually won.
Running behind Oppenheimer used to be Martin Scorsese‘S Killers of the Flower Moon And Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Poor thingsboth with seven nominations. Celine Song‘S Past lives had five nominations, including Best Director.
Anatomy of a fall, Master And May December all had four nominations. The last of the three moves Charles Melton on the map that follows his Riverdale fame. This was the actor’s first-ever Golden Globe nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. “I’m so happy,” Melton said Deadline last month about the acting performance.