Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the big winner at the BAFTA Awards, the most important British film prizes, on Sunday evening. The biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the first atomic bomb, was nominated in thirteen categories and ultimately won seven masks.
Oppenheimer has been awarded the BAFTA for best film. In addition to Oppenheimer, Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos, The Holdovers by Alexander Payne, Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet and Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese were also nominated.
Christopher Nolan won the BAFTA for best director. The BAFTAs for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor went to Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr respectively. Oppenheimer also won the BAFTAs for best cinematography, editing and original score.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will award masks in 25 categories on Sunday evening at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
‘Oppenheimer’ director Christopher Nolan. — © AFP