Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer wins seven awards at the 2024 Oscar
Award and Honour
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Christoper Nolan directed film Oppenheimer won seven awards at the 96th Oscar awards ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood , California, the United States of America on 10 March 2024. The film won in the major category of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role category.
Considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the field of cinema, the film Oppenheimer led the nomination category with 13 nominations followed by Poor Things with 11, Killers of the Flower Moon with 10 and Barbie with eight at the the 96th Academy Awards,also known as Oscar awards.
Oppenheimer Film
The Oppenheimer film is an American-British biographical film based on the American Physicist J.Robert Oppenheimer. The film Oppenheimer was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Oppenheimer “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005).” The biography was written by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin.
Robert Oppenheimer played a crucial role in the American government’s Project Manhattan to develop a nuclear bomb in 1940’s. Manhattan is an area in New York City where the majority of the research was being undertaken in the United States regarding the nuclear bomb. Hence the Project was code named Project Manhattan.
Winner of the 96th Academy Awards 2024
Here is a complete list of the winners of the 96th Oscar Award 2024.
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Category |
Winner |
Film |
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Best Feature Film |
Oppenheimer |
Oppenheimer |
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Best Male Actor |
Cilian Murphy |
Oppenheimer |
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Best Male Actor in Supporting role |
Robert Downey Junior |
Oppenheimer |
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Best Actress |
Emma Stone |
Poor Things |
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Best Actress in supporting role |
Da’Vine Joy Randolph |
The Holdovers |
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Best Director |
Christopher Nolan |
Oppenheimer |
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Best Animated Feature film |
The Boy and the Heron |
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Best Screenplay |
American Fiction |
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Best Original Screenplay |
Anatomy of a Fall |
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Best Cinematography |
Oppenheimer |
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Best Costume |
Poor Things |
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Best Documentary |
20 days in Mariupol |
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Best Documentary Short film |
The Last Repair Shop |
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Best film editing |
Oppenheimer |
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Best International feature film |
The Zone of Interest (British Movie ) |
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Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
Poor Things |
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Best Original Score |
What was I made for |
Barbie |
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Best Production Design |
Oppenheimer |
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Best animated Short Film |
War is Over |
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Best Sound |
The Zone of Interest |
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Best Visual Effects |
Godzilla Minus One |
Academy Award or Oscar Award
- Academy Awards, which are popularly called Oscars, are considered to be the most prestigious film awards in the world.
- The award is given every year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences based in California, United States of America.
- The winners are given a copy of a golden statue as a trophy. The trophy is officially called the "Academy Award of Merit". It is popularly known as the "Oscar".
- George Stanley sculpted the award based on a sketch by Cedric Gibbons.
- The first award was presented in 1929.
