• ‘Oppenheimer’, the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards, including the Best Picture, on March 11. 

• Irish actor Cillian Murphy won Best Actor for playing theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the US effort in the 1940s to create a weapon that ended World War II.

• ‘Oppenheimer’ director Christopher Nolan took home the directing Oscar. It was the first of Nolan’s films to win best picture. 

• ‘Oppenheimer’ movie was based on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book titled ‘American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer’.

• Emma Stone was named Best Actress for playing a woman revived from the dead in the dark and wacky comedy ‘Poor Things’. It was the second Academy Award for Stone, who landed the best actress honor for 2016 musical ‘La La Land’.

• In supporting actor categories, Robert Downey Jr. of ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘The Holdovers’ star Da’Vine Joy Randolph claimed their first Academy Awards.

• The win came 31 years after Downey’s first nomination, for his leading role in Richard Attenborough’s Hollywood biopic ‘Chaplin’, and 15 years after his second for a divisive turn in comedy ‘Tropic Thunder’.

• Randolph received the Best Supporting Actress trophy for playing a grieving mother and cafeteria worker in the comedy set in a New England boarding school.

Full list of winners:

• Best Picture: Oppenheimer

• Best Director: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

• Best Actor: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

• Best Actress: Emma Stone (Poor Things)

• Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

• Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

• Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet & Arthur Harari)

• Adapted Screenplay: Cord Jefferson (American Fiction)

• Animated Feature Film: The Boy and the Heron

• Best International Feature Film: The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

• Production Design: Poor Things (James Price, Shona Heath & Zsuzsa Mihalek)

• Costume Design: Holly Waddington (Poor Things)

• Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema (Oppenheimer)

• Film Editing: Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer)

• Makeup and Hairstyling: Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston)

• Sound: The Zone of Interest (Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn)

• Visual Effects: Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima)

• Music (Original Score): Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer)

• Music (Original Song): What Was I Made For? (from Barbie; Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)

• Documentary (Feature): 20 Days in Mariupol

• Documentary (Short Subject): The Last Repair Shop

• Short Film (Animated): War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

• Short Film (Live Action): The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

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