Oscars 2024：A Big Night for Oppenheimer

Oscars 2024: A Big Nightfor 'Oppenheimer'

Oppenheimer won best picture. Ryan Gosling performed a rollickingversion of "I'm Just Ken." Martin Scorsese's "Killers of theFlower Moon" was shut out and host Jimmy Kimmel kept the attendees of the96th Academy Awards laughing with a lively monologue.

Barbenheimer might have been the definitive theme of the last year inmovies, but in the end, only one of the movies could win a best picture Oscar.That award went to "Oppenheimer," which beat out "Barbie"and eight other films, and dominated other top categories for a total of sevenwins, including best director (Christopher Nolan), best actor (Cillian Murphy)and best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.).

In Nolan's portrait of the atomic bomb's creator, Oscar voters chose acommercial hit that delivered grandeur, technical wizardry, an all-star castand a story with huge historical stakes plus relevance to the scary state ofgeopolitics today.

The triumph of "Oppenheimer" is also an unspoken win for theAcademy Awards, often criticized for being disconnected from the tastes ofregular moviegoers. "Oppenheimer" grossed about $329 million at thedomestic box office—more than the previous seven best-picture winners combined.