Oscars 2024: Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ wins greatest image
The historic drama “Oppenheimer” was a giant winner at Sunday’s Oscars gala in Hollywood, taking house seven awards, together with greatest image, greatest director and greatest actor.
The begin of the gala, hosted for the fourth time by Jimmy Kimmel, was delayed by 5 minutes as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outdoors the awards ceremony.
Christopher Nolan received the Academy Award for greatest director for his movie “Oppenheimer.” The 53-year-old British director had by no means received an Oscar earlier than.
Cillian Murphy additionally earned his first Academy Award for his efficiency in “Oppenheimer” because the physicist who led the event of the atomic bomb in World War II.
Meanwhile, Robert Downey Jr. received the Oscar for greatest supporting actor for his portrayal of Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss in the identical movie. It was the veteran actor’s first Academy Award.
And Emma Stone’s dangerous, unapologetic feminine tackle the Frankenstein fable in “Poor Things” received her the Oscar for greatest actress.
Who received different awards?
Da’Vine Joy Randolph received the Oscar for greatest supporting actress for her function as grieving mom Mary Lamb within the boarding college drama “The Holdovers.”
Hayao Miyazaki received his second Oscar for his semi-autobiographical Japanese animated movie “The Boy and the Heron,” a fantasy story a couple of boy mourning his lifeless mom.
The 83-year-old Japanese anime grasp, who got here from retirement to make “The Boy and the Heron,” didn’t attend the ceremony.
The Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest,” which explores questions of complicity whereas depicting the mundane lifetime of a Nazi household of their house subsequent to the Auschwitz loss of life camp, received the Academy Award for greatest worldwide movie.
Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, received the Oscar for greatest documentary.
“This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history,” mentioned Chernov. “And I’m honored. Probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this (for) Russia never attacking Ukraine.”
dh/jsi (AP, AFP, Reuters)
