LONDON – Oppenheimer, a three-hour epic concerning the making of the atomic bomb in World Battle II, was the large winner on the Bafta Movie Awards on Sunday (February 18), successful high honors for finest movie and finest director , in addition to 5 different awards.
One of many highest-grossing movies of 2023, it additionally received awards for lead actor Cillian Murphy, who performs American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, supporting actor Robert Downey Jr, enhancing, cinematography and unique music.
Nolan, who received his first Bafta for guiding, thanked his solid and crew in his acceptance speech.
“In the true world there are every kind of people and organizations which have fought lengthy and exhausting to scale back the variety of nuclear weapons on the planet… by accepting this I wish to acknowledge their efforts,” he added.
Like Nolan, Murphy had been favourite to win his class and in his acceptance speech referred to the person often known as “the daddy of the atomic bomb.”
“Oppenheimer was a colossally mischievous and complicated character and he meant various things to totally different folks,” Murphy stated.
“One man's monster is one other man's hero. That's why I really like motion pictures, as a result of we’ve an area to rejoice, interrogate and examine that complexity.”
Emma Stone picked up the lead actress award for the sex-charged gothic comedy Poor Issues, which received 5 awards in complete.
Da'Vine Pleasure Randolph received the supporting actress award for her position in The Holdovers, a comedy set at a kids's boarding college.
“The Sizzling Spot,” concerning the Auschwitz commandant and his household residing subsequent to the Nazi demise camp, received three awards: finest British movie, non-English movie and talkie.
The courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall received the night time's first prize, unique screenplay. The tailored screenplay was for the comedy-drama American Fiction, primarily based on the 2001 novel Easure by Percival Everett.
The award for finest documentary went to 20 Days in Mariupol, journalist Mstyslav Chernov's private account of the siege of the Ukrainian metropolis in 2022.
“This isn’t about us, that is about Ukraine, concerning the folks of Mariupol… the day earlier than yesterday one other Ukrainian metropolis fell… many cities earlier than that,” Chernov stated in his acceptance speech.
“That's why the story of Mariupol is an emblem of the whole lot that occurred, an emblem of battle.”
In addition to the celebrities attending the ceremony on the Royal Pageant Corridor subsequent to the River Thames in central London, the visitor checklist additionally included Bafta president Prince William.
Generally known as the Bafta (British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts), the ceremony was offered by actor David Tennant.
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