Oppenheimer
Summary
Cillian Murphy was already a front - runner for the Best Actor category at the 2024OscarsforOppenheimer , andhis latest award success makes his Academy Award win even more likely . Over a decade after rising to fame for his role in the 2002 horror movie28 Days Later , Cillian Murphy at long last received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance as the titular character in Christopher Nolan ’s 2023 movieOppenheimer . Murphy ’s nod for Best Actor is one ofOppenheimer ’s 13nominations at the 2024 Oscars , which also includes Best Picture .
At the 2024 Oscars , J. Robert Oppenheimer histrion Cillian Murphy is up against Paul Giamatti forThe Holdovers , Colman Domingo forRustin , Jeffrey Wright forAmerican Fiction , and Bradley Cooper forMaestroin the Best Actor category . found on the outcomes for the 2023 - 2024 awards season thus far , the two front - runner for Best Actor at the 96th Academy Awards have been Murphy and Giamatti . However , the 2024 SAG Awards have just given the biggest indication of who is most potential to win at the Oscars .
Christopher Nolan ’s Oppenheimer follows its titular topic — before & after he created the atomic dud . We interrupt down the biopic ’s ending in detail .
Cillian Murphy’s Best Actor Oscars Win Is Way More Likely After The 2024 SAG Awards
Murphy now has unbelievable betting odds to take home the Academy Award for Best Actor this twelvemonth .
Cillian Murphy winning Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture at the Netflix - streaming 2024 SAG Awards all but affirm he ’ll advance Best Actor at the Oscars . TheSAG Awards have been used as a reliable forecaster of the Oscars ’ acting category outcomes , so Murphy now has incredible odds to take home the Academy Award for Best Actor this year . Over the last ten , nearly every Best Actor Oscar succeeder also won Best Actor at the SAG Awards .
Robert Downey , Jr. also won the 2024 SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor forOppenheimerand is nominated in the same class at the 2024 Oscar .
Since 2014 , only two actors who come through the SAG Award for Best Actor ultimately did not win in that category at the Oscars that same yr , and both were debated as cut at the latter ceremonial . Denzel Washington won Best Actor at the SAG Awards forFencesbut lost at the 2017 Oscars to Casey Affleck , while Chadwick Boseman posthumously win Best Actor at the SAG Awards forMa Rainey ’s Black Bottombut lose in the category to Anthony Hopkins at the Oscars in 2021 . Consequently , it would be a significant turnover if Cillian Murphy were to lose Best Actorat the 2024 Oscars .
Cillian Murphy’s 2024 Oscars Win Would End A 15-Year Christopher Nolan Movie Drought
If Cillian Murphy succeed Best Actor at the 2024 Oscars , it will markthe first sentence sinceThe Dark Knightthat an actor haswon an Oscar for a Christopher Nolan movie . In 2009 , Heath Ledger was posthumously award the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the Joker in Nolan’sThe Dark Knight , a movie which also happened to have Murphy . Despite having notoriously stellar mold in his movies , The Dark KnightandOppenheimerare the only two Christopher Nolan movies to receive performing nominating address at theOscarsso far , and both may finally win .
The 96th Academy Awards will air hold out on March 10 , 2024 at 7 p.m. ET on ABC .
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Cast
Oppenheimer is a film by Christopher Nolan , which follows the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer , the man behind the atomic bomb calorimeter . Cillian Murphy will play the nominal role , with the story based on the book American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin .
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