2024 Oscar winners: 'Oppenheimer' wins Best Picture, 7 total awards

"Oppenheimer" capped its remarkable run through the Hollywood awards season Sunday by capturing seven Academy Awards at the 96th Oscars — including the trophy for best picture.

The story of atomic bomb mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer, which took a leading 13 nominations into the evening, also won Oscars for best actor (Cillian Murphy), best director (Christopher Nolan) and best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.)

In addition, it won for cinematography, film editing and best score.

"Oppenheimer" topped nine competitors in the best picture category — "American Fiction," "Anatomy of a Fall," "Barbie," "The Holdovers," "Killers of the Flower Moon,"` "Maestro," "Past Lives," "Poor Things" and "The Zone of Interest."

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Best picture is the only one of the 23 Oscar categories with 10 nominees. All the others have five apiece.

Murphy, meanwhile, continued his own awards season success with his victory in the best actor category, besting Bradley Cooper in "Maestro," Colman Domingo in "Rustin," Paul Giamatti in "The Holdovers" and Jeffrey Wright in "American Fiction."

Murphy had already won a Golden Globe for actor in a drama film and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his "Oppenheimer" role.

Nolan's director win denied the award to Justine Triet for "Anatomy of a Fall," Martin Scorsese for "Killers of the Flower Moon,"  Yorgos Lanthimos for "Poor Things" and Jonathan Glazer for "The Zone of Interest."

Meanwhile, Emma Stone won the award for best actress — making it four Oscar victories Sunday for the Frankenstein-esque "Poor Things," which also took awards for production design, hair and makeup, and costume design.

Stone beat out Annette Bening in "Nyad," Lily Gladstone in "Killers of the Flower Moon," Sandra Huller in "Anatomy of a Fall" and Carey Mulligan in "Maestro."

Downey, meanwhile, took the statue for best supporting actor, adding to his earlier hardware haul at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. Downey, with his third Oscar nomination, topped Sterling K. Brown in "American Fiction," Robert De Niro in "Killers of the Flower Moon," Ryan Gosling in "Barbie" and Mark Ruffalo in "Poor Things."

"I'd like to thank my terrible childhood, and the Academy — in that order," Downey joked in his acceptance speech.

Da'vine Joy Randolph captured the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in "The Holdovers," beating out Emily Blunt in "Oppenheimer," Danielle Brooks in "The Color Purple," America Ferrera in "Barbie" and Jodie Foster in "Nyad."

"Barbie" director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie were two of the most noteworthy snubs in the Oscars — failing to capture nods for best director and best actress, respectively, despite the box-office bonanza that "Barbie" reaped over the summer of 2023. Gerwig did take a nomination for best adapted screenplay along with her co-writer, Noah Baumbach -- but the team lost out to "American Fiction," written for the screen by Cord Jefferson.

In fact, all the hype of "Barbenheimer" — the summer box-office 1-2 punch of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" — didn't translate into many major awards for the film about the iconic American toy doll.

At one point Sunday, as Blunt and Gosling shared the stage for a presentation, Blunt glanced at Gosling and joked about the films' competition, "And to the way this awards season worked out, it wasn't much of a rivalry."

But "Barbie" did salvage a victory Sunday in the best original song category — "What Was I Made For?" with music and lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell.

In the earlier major awards shows this year, "Oppenheimer" was the dominant film, capturing five Golden Globes, three SAG Awards and eight Critics Choice Awards, as well as honors from the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.

Sunday's ceremony from the Dolby Theatre was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, taking his fourth turn as emcee of Hollywood's glitziest event.

Here is a complete list of the winners:

Best picture

• "Oppenheimer"

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Cillian Murphy in "Oppenheimer"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Robert Downey Jr. in "Oppenheimer"

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Emma Stone in "Poor Things"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Da'Vine Joy Randolph in "The Holdovers"

Best animated feature film of the year

• "The Boy and the Heron" / Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

Achievement in cinematography

• "Oppenheimer" / Hoyte van Hoytema

Achievement in costume design

• "Poor Things" / Holly Waddington

Achievement in directing

• "Oppenheimer" / Christopher Nolan

Best documentary feature film

• "20 Days in Mariupol" / Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath

Best documentary short film

• "The Last Repair Shop" / Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers

Achievement in film editing

• "Oppenheimer" / Jennifer Lame

Best international feature film

• "The Zone of Interest" / United Kingdom

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

• "Poor Things" / Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• "Oppenheimer" / Ludwig Goransson

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• "What Was I Made For?" from ``Barbie"/ Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell

Achievement in production design

• "Poor Things" / Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek

Best animated short film

• "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko" / Dave Mullins and Brad Booker

Best live action short film

• "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" / Wes Anderson and Steven Rales

Achievement in sound

• "The Zone of Interest" / Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn

Achievement in visual effects

• "Godzilla Minus One" / Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima

Adapted screenplay

• "American Fiction" / Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson

Original screenplay

• "Anatomy of a Fall" / Screenplay - Justine Triet and Arthur Harari

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