‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Big at BAFTAs
“Oppenheimer” won the most awards Sunday night, walking away with seven BAFTAs. The movie, about the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, took home prizes for best film, Christopher Nolan for best director…
“Oppenheimer” won the most awards Sunday night, walking away with seven BAFTAs.
The movie, about the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, took home prizes for best film, Christopher Nolan for best director, Cillian Murphy best leading actor, Robert Downey Jr. for best supporting actor, Ludwig Göransson for best original score, Hoyte van Hoytema for best cinematography and Jennifer Lame for best editing, according to The New York Times.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, considered the British equivalent of the Academy Awards, were given out in London on Sunday.
Four other movies — “Poor Things”, “The Holdovers”, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Anatomy of a Fall” — were also up for best film.
The success of “Oppenheimer” was not a surprise.
“Most British movie critics predicted that ‘Oppenheimer’ would win big,” The Times reported. “Tom Shone, writing in The Times of London, said that Nolan’s ‘magnum opus’ was an instant classic. ‘Sometimes the front-runner is the front-runner for a reason.’”