Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer dominates with 7 awards, including best picture

Christopher Nolan's epic bi‐ ographical drama Oppen‐ heimer won best picture at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday after dominat‐ ing for most of the evening, taking home 7 awards across categories.

Lead actor Cillian Murphy and supporting actor Robert Downey Jr. each took home prizes in their respective cat‐ egories, while Nolan won the award for best director. The film - which stars Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb - also won awards for editing, cinematography and score.

The night's major upset was Poor Things star Emma Stone's win for best actress over Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, the first Native American con‐ tender in the best actress category.

While Gladstone won the Golden Globe for her depic‐ tion of Mollie Kyle, a real-life Indigenous woman deceived by her husband during the 20th century Osage murders, Stone had been steadily col‐ lecting trophies, including a BAFTA and a Critics Choice award, for playing an adult woman with a child's brain in Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy.

Poor Things otherwise took an early lead in the cre‐ ative categories, winning three awards: best makeup and hairstyling, best costume design, and best production design. Experimental Holo‐ caust drama The Zone of In‐ terest won two awards for best international feature and best sound.

Other season favourites took home just one award each, with The Holdovers' Da'Vine Joy Randolph win‐ ning the best supporting ac‐ tress prize and Billie Eilish winning best original song for her Barbie piano ballad, What Was I Made For?

Halifax's Ben Proudfoot was the evening's sole Cana‐ dian winner, winning best documentary short film for co-directing The Last Repair Shop. He is a second-time winner after taking home the same prize for 2021's The Queen of Basketball.

Director Wes Anderson, who has been nominated for several Oscars over the years, won his first tonight when The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar won the prize for best live action short film.

CBC News reporter Eli Glasner was on the ground at famed Oscars venue the Dol‐ by Theatre in Los Angeles. A recap of the show will be published later tonight. For more Oscars content, follow along with CBC News on X and on TikTok.

The list of winners

Best supporting actress:

Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple America Ferrera, Barbie Jodie Foster, Nyad

Best animated short film: War Is Over! Inspired By the Music of John and Yoko Letter to a Pig Ninety-Five Senses Our Uniform Pachy‐ derme

Best animated feature film:

The Boy and the Heron Ni‐ mona Elemental Robot Dreams Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best original screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall Past Lives The Holdovers Maestro May December

Best adapted screenplay: American Fiction Barbie

Oppenheimer Poor Things The Zone of Interest

Best makeup and hair‐ styling:

Poor Things Golda Maestro Oppenheimer Soci‐ ety of the Snow

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 international feature film:

The Zone of Interest Io Capitano Perfect Days Soci‐ ety of the Snow The Teacher‐ s' Lounge

Best supporting actor:

Robert Downey Jr., Op‐ penheimer Ryan Gosling, Barbie Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best visual effects:

Mis‐ sion Impossible: Dead Reck‐ oning Part One Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 The Creator Napoleon

Best film editing:

Oppenheimer Anatomy of a Fall The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Poor Things

Best documentary short film:

The Last Repair Shop The ABCs of Book Banning The Barber of Little Rock Is‐ land In Between Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó

WATCH | Canadian Ben Proudfoot on how his 1st Oscar changed his career:

Best documentary fea‐ ture:

20 Days in Mariupol To Kill a Tiger Bobi Wine: The Peo‐ ple's President The Eternal Memory Four Daughters

Best cinematography:

Oppenheimer El Conde Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Poor Things

Best live action short film:

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Invincible The After Knight of Fortune Red, White and Blue

Best sound:

The Zone of Interest The Creator Maestro Mission: Im‐ possible - Dead Reckoning Part One Oppenheimer

Best original score: Oppenheimer Killers of the Flower Moon American Fiction Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Poor Things Best original song:

What Was I Made For?

from Barbie The Fire Inside from Flamin' Hot I'm Just Ken from Barbie It Never Went Away from American Sym‐

phony Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon

Best actor:

Cillian Murphy, Oppen‐ heimer Bradley Cooper, Maestro Colman Domingo, Rustin Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best director:

Christopher Nolan, Op‐ penheimer Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon Yorgos Lanthi‐ mos, Poor Things Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

Best actress:

Emma Stone, Poor Things Annette Bening, Nyad Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall Carey Mul‐ ligan, Maestro

Best picture:

Oppenheimer American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Bar‐ bie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest