2024 - Oscars 2024: Favorite “Oppenheimer” wins in the supreme discipline

Oscars 2024
Favorite “Oppenheimer” wins in the supreme discipline

The cast and crew of “Oppenheimer.”

“Oppenheimer” won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. He only lost out in one of the major categories.

Ten works competed in the supreme discipline of “Best Film” at the Oscars this year. Some were given only the slightest outside chance. But the 96th edition of the Oscars showed the courage to throw in some surprises over the course of its three-hour running time. And so it remained exciting until the last second of the Academy Awards, before the final envelope of the evening was opened by laudator Al Pacino (83) – and “Oppenheimer” was named the best film of the past year.

Christopher Nolan’s (53) biopic about the “father of the atomic bomb”, J. Robert Oppenheimer, did justice to his role as favorite. As is well known, “Barbie” was able to overtake it at the box office with over 1.4 billion dollars. At the Academy Awards, Greta Gerwig’s (40) film, which was also nominated, was left behind – as were its eight competitors in the “Best Film” category.

In any case, “Oppenheimer” blossomed late, but even more impressively became the winner of the 96th Academy Awards. The drama was able to convert a total of seven of its 13 nominations into wins and gave the director, who also co-produced, his first two Oscars.

Nolan had recently received the first Academy Award of his career. Steven Spielberg (77), as laudator of the “Best Director” category, announced that his colleague had now also managed to be accepted into the illustrious circle. In previous years, Nolan had received five nominations, but never a golden boy.