Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor award at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Cillian won this award for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer where he played the lead character, J Robert Oppenheimer. This was Murphy’s first nomination at the Oscars and his first win.
Other nominees in the category included Bradley Cooper for Maestro, Colman Domingo for Rustin, Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers and Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction.
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Before the Oscars, Cillian won Best Actor awards at the BAFTA, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards. As he won the Screen Actors Guild Award, Murphy said in his acceptance speech, “This is extremely special because it comes from you guys,” he said and added, “Twenty-eight years ago I was trying to become an actor. I was a failed musician and I felt like an interloper. But now, looking out and all of you guys here today, I know that I’m part of something truly wonderful.”
Besides Best Picture, Oppenheimer was also nominated for 12 other categories. The film was also nominated for Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Muphy), Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt), Best Adapted Screenplay (Christopher Nolan), Cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema), Costume Design (Ellen Mirojnick), Makeup and Hairstyling (Luisa Abel), Original Score (Ludwig Göransson), Production Design (production design: Ruth De Jong; set decoration: Claire Kaufman), Editing (Jennifer Lame) and Sound (Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O’Connell).
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