Nolan’s Oppenheimer grabs seven Oscars, Cillian Murphy wins best actor

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer picked up seven Oscars including best picture and director, while Cillian Murphy beat Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright to win the best actor award. Murphy has become the first ever Irish-born winner in this category.

Robert Downey Jr won the best supporting actor award – his first, after being nominated twice earlier for Chaplin and Tropic Thunder.

Nolan also won his first best director Oscar, after previously being nominated for Dunkirk. The film also won for editing, cinematography.

Oppenheimer has been the highest grossing picture since Lord of the Rings – Return of the King in 2004. It has also been the first movie to win best picture, actor and supporting actor since Ben Hur in 1960.

The Oscar for best actress went to Emma Stone for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s period comedy titled ‘Poor Things’. This was Stone’s second best actress win after La La Land. Poor Things also won Oscars for production design, hairstyling, and makeup and costume design.

Out of eight nominations, Barbie won only one Oscar for best original song – Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made for? The singer, along with brother and collaborator Finneas received a standing ovation after performing the song live.

The song ‘I’m Just Ken’ was performed by Ryan Gosling, who was clad in a diamond-studded pink suit.

The best original screenplay was also won by ‘Anatomy of a Fall’. Justine Triet is the first woman to win in this category.

Cord Jefferson for American fiction won the best adapted screenplay. The comedy is an adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel Erasure.

The best documentary feature award went to 20 Days in Mauripol – which tells the story of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Japan won for best animated feature ‘The Boy and the Heron’ and Godzilla Minus One beating out big-budget blockbusters to win the best visual effects Oscar.

Lots of celebrities, including Ramy Youssef and Billie Eilish vehemently called for a ceasefire in Gaza and asked for lasting justice and peace for the Palestinian people.