© Reuters. Cillian Murphy poses on the pink carpet in the course of the Oscars arrivals on the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
LOS ANGELES, March 10 (Reuters) – Cillian Murphy earned his first Academy Award for his portrayal in “Oppenheimer” of the physicist who led america’ improvement of the atomic bomb throughout World Battle Two.
The win caps a profitable awards season for the 47-year-old Irish actor, who additionally picked up a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Display screen Actors Guild award for his efficiency. It was his first Oscar nomination.
Murphy, who lives in Eire and retains a low profile in Hollywood, had his greatest function up to now taking part in a tortured, morally ambiguous Oppenheimer. He’s additionally recognized for main roles in movies together with “28 Days Later” and crime present “Peaky Blinders,” and for appearances in different Christopher Nolan tasks, together with the “Darkish Knight” Batman trilogy and “Inception.”
For a narrative underpinned by complicated science, Murphy mentioned in July that he “did not actually waste an excessive amount of time on the physics,” to arrange for the function, as an alternative honing in on “the humanity and the emotion, and the complexity and the morality of the character.”
“Oppenheimer” led this yr’s Oscar nominations and has triumphed at different awards ceremonies together with the Golden Globes. The film – which, alongside Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” birthed the summer time cinema phenomenon dubbed “Barbenheimer” – helped prop up a 2023 field workplace the place well-established franchises fell flat.