Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy wins 'Best Actor' for 'Oppenheimer'

Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for the biopic Oppenheimer Irish actor Cillian Murphy gave a shoutout to his homeland from the Dolby stage saying Im a very proud Irishman standing here tonight reported Deadline a USbased media outletcillian murphyrsquos full oscar speech pictwittercomA2e1hKXBdwmdash eileen eileenscill March 11 2024He also thanked Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas Its been the wildest most exhilarating most creatively satisfying journey youve taken me on for the last 20 years I owe you more than I can sayTo all the cast and crew he added You guys carried me throughCillian Murphy getting his Oscar statuette engravedpictwittercompSPpcDo28dmdash Film Updates FilmUpdates March 11 2024In closing Murphy said We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb and for better or for worse were all living in Oppenheimers world so Id really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere as per DeadlineMurphy triumphed over Bradley Cooper Maestro Colman Domingo Rustin Paul Giamatti The Holdovers and Jeffrey Wright American FictionOppenheimer also won the awards for Best Supporting Actor Best Film Editing Best Cinematography Best Original Score Best Directing and Best Picture at the 96th Academy AwardsEarlier Murphy won the Best Actor award for Oppenheimer at the BAFTA Awards 2024 and Golden Globe Awards 2024The biopic set during World War II follows Oppenheimer known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb during a period in history when he understood that testing the atomic bomb would ignite the atmosphere and destroy the world yet he pushed the button anywayOppenheimer is played by Cillian Murphy who is securing the lead for the first time in a Christopher Nolan film Having previously starred in Inception Batman Begins The Dark Knight The Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk Murphy has been a mainstay in many of Nolans moviesThe starstudded cast includes Rami Malek Kenneth Branagh Benny Safdie Dane DeHaan Jack Quaid Matthew Modine Alden Ehrenreich Josh Peck Jason Clarke David Dastmalchian Alex Wolff James DArcy and many others Florence Pugh plays Jean Tatlock Emily Blunt plays Kitty Oppenheimer Robert Downey Jr plays Lewis Strauss and Matt DamonThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever