The 2024 Oscars saw a series of historic firsts and achievements, as well as a few missed chances to make history.
British filmmaker Christopher Nolan was the star of the show, finally winning an Academy Award after a 22-year wait. Nolan had been nominated twice before for best original screenplay – for Memento in 2002 and Inception in 2011 – but didn’t win either time.
He was also up for best director for Dunkirk in 2018, but again left without a trophy. This year, however, he took home the award for best director for his film Oppenheimer.
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Oppenheimer also led to two more Oscar firsts. Cillian Murphy, who played the lead role of J Robert Oppenheimer the American physicist who helped create the atomic bomb won best actor, becoming the first Irish person to do so.
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Robert Downey Jr also won his first Oscar, taking home the award for best supporting actor for his role as Lewis Strauss in the film. Downey Jr had been waiting even longer than Nolan for an Oscar, having received his first acting nomination in 1993 for Chaplin.
Another British filmmaker, Jonathan Glazer, made history when his film The Zone of Interest became the first UK production to win the Oscar for best international feature.
The film, set in and around the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two, features dialogue that is mostly in German and Polish which made it eligible for the award.
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Another historic moment came when 20 Days in Mariupol was named best documentary feature, marking the first Oscar to be won by Ukraine.
Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night, taking home seven Oscars. This put it ahead of Poor Things (four wins) and The Zone of Interest (two).
Oppenheimer had received a total of 13 nominations. If it had won in all these categories, it would have set a new record for the most wins by a single film.
The current record of 11 is held jointly by Ben-Hur (in 1960), Titanic (1998) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004).
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Best picture – Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas
Best directing – Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan
Best supporting actress – The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Best supporting actor – Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr
Best actor – Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy
Best actress – Poor Things’ Emma Stone
Documentary feature film – 20 Days In Mariupol’s Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath, Michelle Mizner
Documentary short film – The Last Repair Shop
Animated feature film – The Boy And The Heron’s Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
Animated short – War Is Over! Inspired By The Music Of John & Yoko’s Dave Mullins, Brad Booker and Sean Ono Lennon
Live action short film – The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar’s Wes Anderson and Steven Rales
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Original screenplay – Anatomy Of A Fall’s Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
Adapted screenplay – American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson
Music (original score) – Oppenheimer’s Ludwig Goransson
Music (original song) – Barbie’s Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for What Was I Made For?
Film editing – Oppenheimer’s Jennifer Lame
Production design – Poor Things’ Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek
Costume design – Poor Things’ Holly Waddington
Makeup and hairstyling – Poor Things’ Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston
Sound – The Zone Of Interest’s Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers
Cinematography – Oppenheimer’s Hoyte van Hoytema
International Feature Film – The Zone Of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer for the UK
Visual effects – Godzilla Minus One’s Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima
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