The 96th Academy Awards delivered glory for Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan. As expected, the Londoner’s atomic age origin story added the Best Picture Oscar to its gigantic box-office haul over the past eight months.
2023 was the year of Everything Everywhere All At Once, but Oppenheimer matched the indie sci-fi’s seven wins, dominating the acting and technical categories.
Nolan, who has only been nominated once before in the category, for Dunkirk, won Best Director, and his stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
Murphy became the first Irish-born actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor (Dublin-born Brenda Fricker won Best Supporting Actress for My Left Foot back in 1990).
Emma Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Bella Baxter in ‘Poor Things’, pipping category favourite Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone to the prize.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress for her performance as The Holdovers’ grieving but effervescent school cook.
‘Poor Things’ went on a hot streak in the craft categories, picking up Best Costume Design, Best Hair and Make-up, and Best Production Design in quick succession.
Jonathan Glazer’s German-language Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest won Best International Film, the first British film to take the honour, along with Best Sound.
And Wes Anderson finally landed an Oscar – at the eighth time of asking. His pithy Roald Dahl adaptation The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar won in the Best Live Action Short category.
Twenty-two year-old Billie Eilish became the youngest two-time Oscar winner in history, winning Best Song for Barbie’s ‘What Was I Made For?’, after winning the same award for ‘No Time To Die’ in 2021.
The winners in full:
Best Picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Director
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Best Actress
Annette Bening, Nyad
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actor
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
America Ferrera, Barbie
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Sterling K Brown, American Fiction
Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Original Screenplay
May December
The Holdovers
Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall
Maestro
Best Adapted Screenplay
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Oppenheimer
Barbie
American Fiction
Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Elemental
The Boy and the Heron
Robot Dreams
Nimona
Best International Feature Film
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest
Best VFX
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Best Cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Sound
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Best Editing
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Production Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Costume Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
Best Original Score
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Original Song
‘The Fire Inside’ – Flamin’ Hot
‘I'm Just Ken’ – Barbie
‘It Never Went Away’ – American Symphony
‘Wahzhazhe’ – Killers of the Flower Moon
‘What Was I Made For?’ – Barbie
Best Documentary Feature
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
Best Animated Short
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Best Documentary Short
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
Best Live Action Short
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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