'Oppenheimer' wins 7 Oscars, including Best Picture; Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy get statues

LOS ANGELES -- All eyes were connected "Oppenheimer" starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt astatine the Oscars connected Sunday. The movie dominated astatine the container bureau this twelvemonth and passim awards season.

Now it's been named Best Picture astatine the Academy Awards.

"Oppenheimer" won 7 Oscars Sunday night, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It besides won for Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography. Ludwig Göransson besides took location the Oscar for Best Original Score.

The movie earned a starring 13 nominations and has earned astir $1 cardinal worldwide.

Christopher Nolan wins Best Director for epic biopic

Christopher Nolan fulfilled his grant amusement frontrunner status, winning his archetypal Oscar connected Sunday nighttime for directing "Oppenheimer."

The 53-year-old British visionary has garnered captious acclaim passim his career, but had ne'er won an Oscar until now. He was nominated for directing "Dunkirk" successful 2017 and for archetypal screenplay successful 2010 for "Inception" and successful 2001 for "Memento."

At the podium, Nolan noted that movies are conscionable a small spot implicit 100 years aged and thanked the Academy for the honor. "We don't cognize wherever this unthinkable travel is going from here," Nolan said. "But to cognize that you deliberation I americium a meaningful portion of it means the satellite to me."

Nolan bushed retired Jonathan Glazer of "The Zone of Interest," Yorgos Lanthimos of "Poor Things," Martin Scorsese of "Killers of the Flower Moon," and Justine Triet of "Anatomy of a Fall."At 81, Scorsese was the oldest directing nominee.

Nolan was cheered connected by his wife, Emma Thomas, who doubly shared champion representation nominations with her hubby for producing "Dunkirk" and "Inception." The assemblage sweethearts person been producing partners connected each of his films since 1997.

Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor for playing J. Robert Oppenheimer

Irish histrion Cillian Murphy, who has collaborated with Christopher Nolan six times going backmost astir 2 decades, has won his precise archetypal Oscar.

READ MORE: Who was the existent Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy?

His information for Best Actor for playing J. Robert Oppenheimer successful the eponymous biopic was besides his archetypal ever Oscar nomination.

He seemed delighted and somewhat overwhelmed by the triumph arsenic helium thanked his co-stars, his household and dedicated his grant to "all the peacemakers."

Murphy bested Colman Domingo for "Rustin," Bradley Cooper for "Maestro," Paul Giamatti for "The Holdovers," and Jeffrey Wright for "American Fiction."

Robert Downey Jr. wins archetypal Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

Robert Downey, Jr. took location the prize for Best Actor successful a Supporting Role, for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss.

READ MORE: Robert Downey Jr. wins his first-ever Academy Award for champion supporting actor

Speaking with ABC Audio up of the film's premiere, Murphy said "Oppenheimer" is "not your accepted biopic."

"It does marque you think," helium said. "And radical tin take to deliberation astir the atomic property that we unrecorded in, oregon they could take not to. And I deliberation this movie mightiness impact that choice."

Recently, "Oppenheimer" won champion representation astatine the 35th Producers Guild of America Awards, different grant for the blockbuster movie this grant season.

Both Cillian Murphy (male histrion successful a starring role) and Robert Downey Jr. (male histrion successful a supporting role) won astatine the SAG Awards, wherever "Oppenheimer" besides won champion ensemble, portion of an awards play expanse that besides included wins astatine the Golden Globes and Directors Guild Awards.

Murphy besides won a Golden Globe for champion show by a antheral histrion successful a question representation (drama) and the champion histrion successful a starring relation trophy the 2024 BAFTAs.

This representation released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy successful a country from "Oppenheimer."

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Here is each Oscar information for "Oppenheimer."

This representation released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy successful a country from "Oppenheimer."

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.