‘Oppenheimer’ wins Best Picture at Oscars 2024
The top honors of the 2024 Oscars went to Oppenheimerwhich was named Best Film during the ceremony on Sunday, March 10.
The film took home the final trophy of the night as the awards ceremony wrapped up at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. The prize, awarded by Al Pacinomarked Oppenheimer‘s seventh Oscar win on Sunday.
“I think all of us who make films know that you dream of this moment, do you know that right? I could deny it, but I’ve been dreaming about this moment for so long,’ Christopher Nolan‘s wife, producer Emma Thomas, said during the acceptance speech. “But it seemed so unlikely that or whatever actually happened. And now I’m standing here and everything has kind of disappeared from my mind.”
After praising her husband, she added that the “team was just incredible on this film.”
The 2024 awards season concluded with the 96th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. The nominations were announced in January, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer earning the most nods. The thirteen nominations include Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy. (It won more than any other […]
Oppenheimer competed against nine other films in the category: American Fiction, Anatomy of a Trap, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things And The zone of interest.
Before the Oscars started, Oppenheimer became an awards season darling, winning Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in January and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards in February. Poor thingsmeanwhile, earned the award for Best Picture – Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.
OppenheimerThe film’s cast and crew have also received numerous awards for their work on the film. Cillian Murphy And Robert Downey Jr. both won Golden Globe and SAG awards for their lead and supporting roles, respectively. Elsewhere at the Golden Globes, Nolan received the award for Best Director – Motion Picture, and Ludwig Göransson took home Best Original Score – Motion Picture.
The Best Picture nominees picked up a slew of nominations in other Oscars categories. Oppenheimer‘s nods included Murphy for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Downey Jr. for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Emily Blunt for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Nolan for Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hair Styling and Best Sound.
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The remaining nominees had a total of 48 additional nods: Poor things with 10, Killers of the Flower Moon with nine, Barbie with seven, Master with six, American fiction, The survivors And The zone of interest with four each, Anatomy of a fall with three and Past lives immediately.
In recent years, several films have made Oscar history with their Best Picture wins. Moonlight – which was infamously mixed with La La Land as Best Picture winner in 2017 – was the first film with an all-black cast to earn the award, while Parasite was the first foreign-language film to win the category in 2020, with director Bong Joon Ho and producer Kwak Sin-ae becoming the first Asian person to take home the award.