BAFTA Awards 2024 Winners: ‘Oppenheimer’ Sweeps

“Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film in regards to the come of the atomic bomb, swept the board on the EE British Academy Movie Awards in London on Sunday.

The film obtained seven awards at Britain’s identical of the Oscars, alongside with simplest film, simplest director for Nolan and simplest leading actor for Cillian Murphy for his portrayal of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

It beat four other nominees to the very best film prize, alongside with “Miserable Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’s snatch on a Frankenstein fable and “The Holdovers,” Alexander Payne’s comedy a pair of boarding college trainer caught taking a stumble on after a student over the vacations. It furthermore beat “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour epic in regards to the Osage murders of the 1920s, and “Anatomy of a Plunge,” Justine Triet’s multilingual court drama a pair of girl accused of murdering her husband.

In the days leading up to the awards, most steadily identified as the BAFTAs, most British film critics predicted that “Oppenheimer” would ranking gargantuan. Tom Shone, writing in The Cases of Londonsaid that Nolan’s “magnum opus” used to be an immediate traditional. “In most cases the front-runner is the front-runner for a aim,” he added.

Mute, the prizes were Nolan’s first director wins on the BAFTAs, despite several old nominations for his motion footage “Inception” and “Dunkirk.”

At the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Nolan, who grew up in London, gave the affect rather overwhelmed by the total accolades. Accepting the very best director prize, he called the award “an incredible honor” then reminisced about his parents dragging him to the competition corridor, a predominant classical song venue as a boy. Really, he said, his youthful brother, now furthermore a TV and filmmaker, had overwhelmed him to the corridor’s stage “by about 40 years” because he once took segment in a performance of “The Nutcracker.”