Oscars 2024 highlights: Oppenheimer is Best Picture, Cillian Murphy is Best Actor, Nolan finally wins Best Director

Oscars 2024 highlights: The 96th Academy Awards concluded with seven wins for Oppenheimer. Poor Things collected second most awards.

As stars began arriving to walk the red carpet, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters angered by the Israel-Gaza conflict shouted and slowed traffic in the blocks surrounding the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Oppenheimer, the three-hour drama directed by Christopher Nolan, led the field with 13 nominations. The movie won the prestigious best picture prize, capping its sweep of other major awards this year.

Cillian Murphy, the Irish actor who played physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as he led the race to build the first atomic bomb, won best actor. Murphy’s main competition, according to awards pundit, was The Holdovers star Paul Giamatti.

Best actress went to Emma Stone for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. The film also picked up a bunch of other awards.

Oscars 2024: Full list of winners

BEST PICTURE

“American Fiction”

Anatomy of a Fall

“Barbie”

“The Holdovers”

Killers of the Flower Moon

“Maestro“

“Past Lives”

“Poor Things”

“The Zone of Interest”

Oppenheimer“- WINNER

BEST ACTOR

Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”

Colman Domingo, “Rustin”

Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”

Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”- WINNER

Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”

BEST ACTRESS

Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Sandra Huller, “Anatomy of a Fall”

Carey Mulligan, “Maestro”

Emma Stone, “Poor Things”- WINNER

Annette Bening, “Nyad”

BEST DIRECTOR

Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”

Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”

Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”- WINNER

Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”

Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”- WINNER

Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”

Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Emily Blunt, “Oppenheimer”

Jodie Foster, “Nyad”

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”- WINNER

Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”

America Ferrera, “Barbie”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

“American Fiction”- WINNER

“Barbie”

“Oppenheimer”

“Poor Things”

“Zone of Interest”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

“Anatomy of a Fall”- WINNER

“The Holdovers”

“May December”

“Past Lives”

Maestro

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

“The Boy and the Heron”- WINNER

“Elemental”

“Nimona”

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”

“Robot Dreams”

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

“Letter to a Pig”

“Ninety-Five Senses”

“Our Uniform”

“Pachyderme”

“War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko”- WINNER

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

“Io Capitano,” Italy

“Perfect Days,” Japan

“Society of the Snow,” Spain

The Teachers’ Lounge,” Germany

The Zone of Interest,” United Kingdom- WINNER

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”

“The Eternal Memory”

“Four Daughters”

“To Kill a Tiger”

20 Days in Mariupol”- WINNER

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

“The ABCs of Book Banning”

“The Last Repair Shop”- WINNER

“Nai Nai & Wai Po”

“The Barber of Little Rock”

“Island in Between”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

“American Fiction”

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”

“Killers of the Flower Moon”

“Oppenheimer”- WINNER

“Poor Things”

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“It Never Went Away,” “American Symphony,”

“I’m Just Ken,” “Barbie,”

What Was I Made For?,” “Barbie”- WINNER

“The Fire Inside,” “Flamin’ Hot,”

“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People), “Killers of the Flower Moon”

BEST SOUND

“The Creator”

“Maestro”

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”

“Oppenheimer”

“The Zone of Interest”- WINNER

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

“Barbie”

“Killers of the Flower Moon”

“Napoleon”

“Oppenheimer”

“Poor Things”- WINNER

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

“The After”

“Invincible”

“Knight of Fortune”

“Red, White and Blue”

“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”- WINNER

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

“El Conde”

“Killers of the Flower Moon”

“Maestro”

“Oppenheimer”- WINNER

“Poor Things”

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

“Golda”

“Society of the Snow”

“Maestro”

“Oppenheimer”

“Poor Things”- WINNER

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

“Barbie”

“Killers of the Flower Moon”

“Napoleon”

“Oppenheimer”

“Poor Things”- WINNER

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

“The Creator”

“Godzilla Minus One”- WINNER

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”

“Napoleon”

BEST FILM EDITING

“Anatomy of a Fall”

“The Holdovers”

“Killers of the Flower Moon”

“Oppenheimer”- WINNER

“Poor Things”