Irish actor Cillian Murphy won his first Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the movie Oppenheimer, in which he plays the famous physicist who led the United States to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II, while Christopher Nolan won the Oscar for Best Director for the same movie. .
The win caps a successful season for the 47-year-old Irish actor, who also won a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance.
Murphy, who lives in Ireland and stays away from the Hollywood spotlight, has played his biggest role yet in Oppenheimer. He previously played leading roles in the films 28 Days Later, the Peaky Blinders series, the Batman film Dark Knight, and also Inception.
Oppenheimer, in which director Christopher Nolan narrates the biography of the inventor of the atomic bomb, was nominated in 13 Oscar categories.
Oscar for Best Director for Christopher Nolan
British-American director Christopher Nolan won his first Oscar, winning the Best Director award for his historical drama Oppenheimer.
Nolan was nominated for an Oscar after winning Best Director awards at the Golden Globe and BAFTA, in addition to the Critics’ Choice and Directors’ Guild of America awards.
Nolan also wrote the screenplay for Oppenheimer, and produced the film with his wife, Emma Thomas.
“Oppenheimer’s story is one of the most dramatic stories I know, and there are many aspects that make it very compelling,” Nolan told Reuters.
The scientist Oppenheimer headed the secret Los Alamos Laboratory, which was established during the era of US President Franklin Roosevelt, as part of the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. He supervised the first detonation of the atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, which he code-named “Trinity,” before these bombs were used to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The film grossed more than $957 million at the global box office.
Nolan is famous for his exciting films, and was nominated for the first time for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 2002 for the film Memento, which he also directed. He was nominated for the 2019 Best Director award for his World War II film Dunkirk.
Emma Stone Best Actress
American actress Emma Stone won the second Oscar in her career, after winning the Best Actress award for the movie Poor Things, a dark comedy that tells the story of a woman who returns to life from the dead.
Stone, 35, won the award for the first time for her role in the 2016 musical “La La Land.”
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