Oppenheimer won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

The big winner of the award ceremony was Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer with 7 awards. The film academy also awarded Nolan the award for directing, so he could leave the ceremony with two Oscars. Accepting the Oscar statuette, the director noted that the film industry has a centuries-old history and is still developing. "It means the world to me to know that you think I'm a significant part of this," he said.

The main actor of the film about the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, won the Oscar for the best actor category. As he said: "we all live in Oppenheimer's world", so he dedicated his award to "the peacemakers everywhere".

Robert Downey Jr., who played Lewis Strauss, the former chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, in the biopic won the Oscar for best supporting actor. I would like to thank my terrible childhood and the film academy, in that order - joked the actor who won the first Oscar of his career.

For Oppenheimer, Hoyte van Hoytema won best cinematography, and Jennifer Lame, the film's editor, also received an award. Oppenheimer also won in the best film score category: composer Ludwig Göransson took home his second Oscar.

Poor Couples, based on the novel by Scottish author Alasdair Gray, won four of its 11 nominations, including in the production design category.

At the Oscars, Shona Heath and James Price accepted the award on behalf of Zsuzsa Mihalek.

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The Poor Couples also won in the mask and hair and costume categories. Accepting the award, costume designer Holly Waddigton also remembered the filming in Hungary with appreciation.

Emma Stone won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Poor Couples. The actress struggling with her emotions - who started her acceptance speech by revealing that her dress was torn - offered her award to the entire crew and cast of the film. Stone already won the best actress Oscar in 2017 for California Dream.

The award for best supporting actress went to Da'Vine Joy Randolph, the star of Winter Break. I wanted to be different for so long, but now I realized that I just had to be myself, and thank you for seeing me, said the actress fighting back tears to the Dolby Theater audience.

The British film Protected Area won the Oscar for best international film.

Thanking the award, Jonathan Glazer, the director of the Holocaust drama filmed in Auschwitz, said that he wanted to show the nature of violence with his film about the commander of the concentration camp. "We think we could never behave like this, and we don't behave like this, but I don't think we should be so sure about that," added Glazer, who also drew attention to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

The Oscar for Best Original Screenplay went to Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall. And the prize for the best adapted screenplay went to the writer of American Fiction, Cord Jefferson.

The award for the best documentary film was awarded by the film academy to the creators of 20 days in Mariupol. This is the first Oscar award in the history of Ukraine , said Ukrainian film director Mstislav Chernov. Referring to the war in Ukraine, he added: "I'm honored, but I'll probably be the first director on this stage to say I wish I'd never made this movie."

The short documentary award went to The Last Repair Shop.

The winner of the short film category was The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar at the ceremony, where the creator of the film, Wes Anderson, was not present.

Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn won the Oscar for Best Sound for The Field of Interests.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell won the Oscar for Best Song for Barbie What Was I Made For, which they performed live at the ceremony.

The crew of Godzilla Minus One took to the stage for the visual effects prize.

The Oscar for best animated film was awarded to Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Gray Heron, and the award for best animated short was given to War is Over!, inspired by the music of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. received a production called

The gala was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who returned for the fourth time in this role. The award presenters included Steven Spielberg and Al Pacino, who received a standing ovation from the stars.

Traditionally, filmmakers who died in the past year were also commemorated. The commemoration was started with the words of Alexei Navalny, who died last month, quoting from last year's Oscar-winning documentary.

MTI

Cover image: The cast of British director Christopher Nolan's biographical drama Oppenheimer at the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024.
Nolan also received the award for best director. Source: MTI/AP/Invision/Chris Pizzello