At the Golden Globes, Oppenheimer won five awards, including best film, drama, and best director.
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The 2024 Oscars, in addition to the success of Poor Things! saw Oppenheimer shine, the 2023 film directed, written, and co-produced by the renowned director Christopher Nolan. The film, after its 13 nominations, won the Best Supporting Actor category, with Robert Downey Jr., Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Soundtrack, and, above all, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Film, becoming the first film of the evening, surpassing Poor Creatures!. Cillian Murphy's win as Best Actor marked an important milestone for the actor, who received his first Oscar. Likewise, Oppenheimer earned Christopher Nolan his first Oscar for Best Director after 8 nominations over the years.
Based on the biography Robert Oppenheimer, Father of the Atomic Bomb by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film brings the extraordinary life of American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to the big screen. Played magnificently by Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer is portrayed in the midst of his challenges and contradictions, from his key role in the Manhattan Project during World War II to his fall from grace during the heat of the Cold War. The cast made up of movie stars such as Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh, delivers a series of extraordinary performances that bring a wide range of characters to life fascinating and complex.
The film received universal acclaim from critics, who praised Nolan's masterful direction, engaging screenplay, and Ludwig Göransson's soundtrack. At the Golden Globes, Oppenheimer won five awards, including best drama and best director, confirming its status as a cinematic masterpiece of recent years. The simultaneous distribution of the film with Warner Bros.' Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, generated a cultural phenomenon known as the "Barbenheimer", which brought numerous spectators to theaters to see - even several times - both films and on which supporting actors Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling also joked.
