Oppenheimer wins seven Oscars including Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, at the 96th Oscars ceremony held in Los Angeles on 10 March 2024.
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Christopher Nolan's historical drama Oppenheimer dominated the 96th Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles on 10 March 2024. The film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.
Robert Downey Jr. won Best Supporting Actor for playing Lewis Strauss, a US atomic energy official. Other wins included Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score. Nolan, who had been nominated before without winning, received his first Oscars for the film.
The biopic follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the wartime Manhattan Project (the US atomic bomb programme). It was released in July 2023 alongside Greta Gerwig's Barbie, a pairing nicknamed "Barbenheimer", and became a major box-office success worldwide.
Matt Damon, who played General Leslie Groves, the project's military head, was part of the Oppenheimer cast attending the ceremony. His later remarks about that night have brought renewed attention to the event.
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