LOS ANGELES — “Oppenheimer” was the big winner at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, capturing seven awards.
The film won best picture, while Cillian Murphy won best actor, Robert Downey Jr. won best supporting actor and Christopher Nolan won best director. “Oppenheimer” also took Oscars for best cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema), best film editing (Jennifer Lame) and best original score (Ludwig Göransson).
“I dedicate it (Oscar) to the peacemakers everywhere,” Murphy said.
Emma Stone won best actress as “Poor Things” won four Academy Awards, adding Oscars for production design, makeup and hairstyling and costume design.
“The other night I was panicking as you can kind of see happens a lot, that maybe something like this could happen. And (‘Poor Things’ director) Yorgos (Lanthimos) said to me, ‘Please take yourself out of it and he was right, because it’s not about me,” Stone said. “It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts and that is the best part about making movies.”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for her role in “The Holdovers,” earning her first Oscar.
The year’s other blockbuster movie, “Barbie,” took home just one Oscar, for best song -- “What Was I Made For?” performed by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell.
“20 Days in Mariupol,” a film by The Associated Press, won best feature-length documentary.
“Oppenheimer” won every major guild and industry award including the Oscars, Variety reported. That includes the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America.
It is the first film to have a perfect season since “Argo” in 2012, the entertainment news website reported.
Al Pacino, who handed out the award for best picture, only named the winner and not the nine other nominees.
“I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will. Here it comes,” said Pacino, who won an Oscar for “Scent of a Woman” and became famous in the Godfather movie franchise.” And my eyes see ‘Oppenheimer.’”
This year’s Oscars were the first in which films must meet two of four representation and inclusion standards to be eligible to win best picture, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The 2024 Oscars returned to the 2009 format of having five past acting winners introducing this year’s acting nominees, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show for the fourth time and promised that while the ceremony was scheduled an hour earlier than in previous years, it would run long, as usual.
“We’re already five minutes late,” Kimmel cracked.
However, the show ended on schedule, with a few minutes to spare.
This year’s presenters included previous best actor winners Nicolas Cage, Matthew McConaughey, Pacino, Brendan Fraser, Ben Kingsley and Forest Whitaker; past best actress winners Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron and Michelle Yeoh; prior best supporting actor winners Mahershala Ali, Sam Rockwell, Ke Huy Quan, Tim Robbins and Christoph Waltz; and past best supporting actress winners Lupita Nyong’o, Jamie Lee Curtis, Regina King, Rita Moreno, Octavia Spencer and Mary Steenburgen.
Here is the list of nominees. Winners are in bold.
Best Picture
“Oppenheimer”
“American Fiction”
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“Barbie”
“The Holdovers”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro”
“Past Lives”
“Poor Things”
“The Zone of Interest”
Best Actress
Emma Stone, “Poor Things”
Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Annette Bening, “Nyad”
Sandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Carey Mulligan, “Maestro”
Best Actor
Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”
Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”
Colman Domingo, “Rustin”
Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”
Best Supporting Actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Emily Blunt, “Oppenheimer”
Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”
America Ferrera, “Barbie”
Jodie Foster, “Nyad”
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”
Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”
Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”
Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things”
Best Director
Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”
Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
Best Original Screenplay
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“The Holdovers”
“Maestro”
“May December”
“Past Lives”
Best Adapted Screenplay
“American Fiction”
“Barbie”
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things”
“The Zone of Interest”
Best Cinematography
“Oppenheimer”
“El Conde”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro”
“Poor Things”
Best Original Score
“Oppenheimer”
“American Fiction”
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Poor Things”
Best Original Song
“What Was I Made For?” “Barbie”
“The Fire Inside,” “Flamin’ Hot”
“I’m Just Ken,” “Barbie”
“It Never Went Away,” “American Symphony”
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People),” “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Best Editing
“Oppenheimer”
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“The Holdovers”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Poor Things”
Best Production Design
“Poor Things”
“Barbie”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Napoleon”
“Oppenheimer”
Best Costume Design
“Poor Things”
“Barbie”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Napoleon”
“Oppenheimer”
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Poor Things”
“Golda”
“Maestro”
“Oppenheimer”
“Society of the Snow”
Best Sound
“The Zone of Interest”
“The Creator”
“Maestro”
“Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One”
“Oppenheimer”
Best Visual Effects
“Godzilla Minus One”
“The Creator”
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3″
“Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One”
“Napoleon”
Best International Feature
“The Zone of Interest”
“Io Capitano”
“Perfect Days”
“Society of the Snow”
“The Teachers’ Lounge”
Best Animated Feature
“The Boy and the Heron”
“Elemental”
“Nimona”
“Robot Dreams”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Best Animated Short
“War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko”
“Letter to a Pig”
“Ninety-Five Senses”
“Our Uniform”
“Pachyderme”
Best Live-Action Short
“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
“The After”
“Invincible”
“Knight of Fortune”
“Red, White and Blue”
Best Documentary Feature
“20 Days in Mariupol”
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”
“The Eternal Memory”
“Four Daughters”
“To Kill a Tiger”
Best Documentary Short
“The Last Repair Shop”
“The ABCs of Book Banning”
“The Barber of Little Rock”
“Island in Between”
“Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó”