‘Oppenheimer’ wins seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards
nypost.com77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” took five prizes.Christopher Nolan was named best director for “Oppenheimer,” and Cillian Murphy won the best actor prize for playing J.
Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.Emma Stone was named best actress for “Poor Things,” which also won several craft and design prizes at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars.“Oppenheimer” had 13 nominations but missed out on the record of nine trophies, set half a century ago by “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”It won the best film race against “Poor Things,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Holdovers.”“Oppenheimer” also won trophies for editing, cinematography and musical score, as well as the best supporting actor prize for Robert Downey Jr.Da’Vine Joy Randolph was named best supporting actress for playing a boarding school cook in “The Holdovers” and said she felt a “responsibility I don’t take lightly” to tell the stories of underrepresented people like her character Mary.“Oppenheimer” faced stiff competition in what was widely considered a vintage year for cinema and an awards season energized by the end of actors’ and writers’ strikes that shut down Hollywood for months.Holocaust drama “ The Zone of Interest” — a British-produced film shot in Poland with a largely German cast — was named both best British film and best film not in English, a first.Jonathan Glazer’s unsettling drama takes place in a family home just outside the walls of Auschwitz.“Walls aren’t new from before or since the Holocaust and it seems stark right now that we should care about innocent people being killed in Gaza or Yemen or Mariupol or Israel,” producer James Wilson said. “Thank you for.
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