The 2024
Oscars clocked up a number of historic firsts and achievements - and topping the bill was
British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, who ended his 22-year wait for an Academy Award. Nolan was first nominated back in 2002, for best original screenplay for Memento, and again in 2011 in the same category for Inception, but on both occasions he came away empty-handed. In 2018 he was nominated for best director for Dunkirk, but once more walked away with nothing. This year he finally triumphed, being named best director for Oppenheimer. Nolan’s film was responsible for two more Oscar firsts. Cillian Murphy, who played the title role of J Robert Oppenheimer – the
American physicist who helped develop the atomic
bomb – was named best actor, the first
Irish winner of this award. READ MORE: Princess of Wales
Kate Middleton issues statement amid 'kill notice' on Mother's Day picture Robert Downey Jr also picked up his first Oscar when he won best supporting
Actor for his role in the film as Lewis Strauss. Downey Jr had been waiting for an Academy Award for even longer than Nolan, having received his first acting nomination in 1993 for Chaplin. Overall, Oppenheimer walked away with seven Oscars after receiving a total of 13 nominations. Nolan’s fellow British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer helped make history when his movie The Zone of Interest became the first
UK production to win the Oscar for best international feature. The film, set in and around the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War, features dialogue that is mostly in German and Polish which made it eligible for the award. Another moment of history came when 20 Days in Mariupol was named best documentary feature, marking the first Oscar to be won by Ukraine. The film, directed by Mstyslav Chernov, follows the story of people living under siege in the city of Mariupol during the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine in the spring of 2022. Japanese fantasy film The Boy and the Heron was named best animated feature, becoming only the second non-English-language production to win this award since the category was added to the Oscars in 2002. The film was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, who came out of retirement to make the movie and was also responsible for the other non-English-language film to win the Oscar for best animated feature, Spirited Away in 2003. Da’Vine Joy Randolph was the only non-white winner in any of the acting categories, taking best supporting
Actress for her role in The Holdovers. Her success bolsters the reputation of the category for being the most diverse of all the acting Oscars with nine of the winners in the past 20 years coming from an ethnic minority background. Read on for the full list of
Academy Awards nominees and winners. Best picture WINNER: Oppenheimer American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower
moon Maestro Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest Best actress WINNER: Emma Stone - Poor Things Annette Bening - Nyad Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall Carey Mulligan - Maestro Best actor WINNER: Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper - Maestro Colman Domingo - Rustin Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction Best supporting actress WINNER: Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple America Ferrera - Barbie Jodie Foster - Nyad Best supporting actor WINNER: Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer Sterling K Brown - American Fiction Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon Ryan Gosling - Barbie Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things Best director WINNER: Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan Anatomy of a Fall - Justine Triet Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer Best original song WINNER: What Was I Made For? - Barbie (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell) The
fire Inside - Flamin' Hot (Diane Warren) I'm Just Ken - Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt) It Never Went Away - American Symphony (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson) Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) - Killers of the Flower Moon (Scott George) Best original score WINNER: Oppenheimer American Fiction Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Killers of the Flower Moon Poor Things