By Mike CrooksTuesday 12 Mar 2024EntertainmentReading Time: 3 minutes
Boom! Oppenheimer – has cleaned up at the Oscars.
Key points
- Emma Stone won the Best Actress for her role as Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari won Best Original Screenplay for the French murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall.
- Best Adapted Screenplay went to Cord Jefferson for American Fiction.
- Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won Best Original Song for Barbie’s “What Was I Made For?”
- For the complete winners’ list visit here.
The biopic – about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the development of the first nuclear bomb – won seven awards, including for Best Picture, at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles. It had been nominated for a total of 13.
Revered British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, who directed the epic film, picked up the Best Director gong from legendary director Steven Spielberg.
The film was produced by Mr Nolan’s wife and long-time collaborator Emma Thomas.
Boom! Oppenheimer – has cleaned up at the Oscars.
Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. won the Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Supporting Role respectively.
“I’m a little overwhelmed,” the Irish Mr Murphy said of his win during the event, which was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
The film also won Academy Awards for Original Score, Editing and Cinematography.
Best Actresses
Emma Stone won the Best Actress for her role as Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
The film, about a woman in Victorian London who dies and is resurrected through a transplant with an infant’s brain, was second only to Oppenheimer for nominations.
According to some commentators, the win was a surprise, since Lily Gladstone had already won multiple awards for her role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
Ms Gladstone would have been the first Native American to win an Oscar.
Emma Stone won the Best Actress for her role as Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
In her acceptance speech, Ms Stone told Ms Gladstone, “I am in awe of you.”
Best Actress in a Supporting Role went to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for her role in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, about a group of people forced to spend the Christmas break together at a school.
Best writing
Meanwhile, writers Justine Triet and Arthur Harari won Best Original Screenplay for the French murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall.
The story follows a woman (played by German actress Sandra Hüller) who is accused of killing her husband.
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari won Best Original Screenplay for the French murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall.
It won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes film festival.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay went to Cord Jefferson for American Fiction.
The film focuses on an African American author (played by Jeffrey Wright), who becomes famous after jokingly writing a book that panders to African American stereotypes.
Best Adapted Screenplay went to Cord Jefferson for American Fiction.
Barbie’s win
While there was some controversy over Barbie’s lack of marquee nominations (director Greta Gerwig and Australian actress Margot Robbie were not nominated in their categories), the cultural juggernaut picked up one gong in the end.
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won Best Original Song for Barbie’s “What Was I Made For?”
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won Best Original Song for Barbie’s “What Was I Made For?”
The siblings and songwriting duo had previously won Best Original Song in 2021 for their title song for the James Bond film No Time to Die.
Other awards
Best International Feature Film went to the UK drama, The Zone of Interest, which focuses on the family life of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp’s commandant during World War Two.
And in an emotional moment, the Best Documentary Feature Film award was handed to the filmmakers behind 20 Days in Mariupol, about the war in Ukraine.
“What is happening in Ukraine is changing the world,” said director Mstyslav Chernov.
“So it’s quite important to show the real picture. So the world understands the seriousness of what’s going on.”
For the complete winners’ list visit here.
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