BAFTA Awards 2024/ Oppenheimer grabs 7 awards, Barbie suffers another disappointment

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BAFTA Awards 2024/ Oppenheimer grabs 7 awards, Barbie suffers another

Atomic bomb epic Oppenheimer won seven awards at the 2024 BAFTA Awards, including best film, best director and best actor.

Seven of the 77 British Academy Film Awards strengthen the status of the film in question ahead of the Oscars next month. Historical epic "Killers of the Flower Moon," Leonard Bernstein biopic "Maestro," heartbreak love story "All of Us Strangers" and class struggle drama "Saltburn" all failed to win anything despite nominations multiple.

The year's top-grossing film "Barbie" also came up empty with five nominations. Barbie director Greta Gerwig failed to get a BAFTA or Oscar nomination for directing, in what many saw as a major snub.

Gothic fantasy "Poor Things" took home five awards and Holocaust drama "The Zone of Interest" won three. British-born director Christopher Nolan won his first Best Director BAFTA for Oppenheimer, and Irish actor Cillian Murphy won Best Actor for playing physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Murphy said he was grateful to play such a "colossal knotty, complex character."

Nolan noted that nuclear weapons are "a nihilistic subject and the film inevitably reflects that". Oppenheimer had a field-leading 13 nominations, but missed the record of nine trophies, set in 1971 by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won Best Picture against Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall and The Holdovers. Oppenheimer also took home trophies for editing, cinematography and musical score, as well as best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr., who played Atomic Energy Commission head Lewis Strauss.


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