Oppenheimer triumphs at Baftas with 7 prizes, Emma Stone and Cillian Murphy win top acting awards
- ‘Oppenheimer’ won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor for Cillian Murphy
- The British awards cement atomic bomb epic’s front-runner status for the Oscars next month
Oppenheimer, a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb in World War Two, was the big winner at the Bafta Film Awards on Sunday, winning the top honours for best film and best director as well as five other awards.
One of the highest-grossing movies of 2023, it also won awards for leading actor Cillian Murphy, who portrays the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, supporting actor Robert Downey Jnr, editing, cinematography and original score.
Nolan, who won his first Bafta for directing, thanked his cast and crew in his acceptance speech.
“In the real world there are all kinds of individuals and organisations who have fought long and hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world … in accepting this I do want to acknowledge their efforts,” he added.
The awards cement Oppenheimer’s front-runner status for the Oscars next month.
Like Nolan, Murphy had been favourite to win his category and in his acceptance speech, he referred to the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb”.