Cillian Murphy has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading role in Oppenheimer. Murphy was tasked with shouldering Christopher Nolan’s three-hour-long drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Playing a historical figure over the course of his life is surefire catnip for the Academy Awards, but Murphy’s performance…
Before presenting the award for Best Sound at the 2024 Oscars comedian John Mulaney explained, in rapid-fire detail, the nonsensical plot of Field of Dreams. For those who don’t remember the iconic film, in Mulaney’s words, “He mows done corn and then there is a field and then he’s like, ‘I’m going to watch ghosts…
Christopher Nolan fans, the time has finally come: Nolan has won his first-ever Best Director Oscar for Oppenheimer. Nolan has been nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards over the course of his career, including Best Director for Dunkirk; Best Original Screenplay for Memento and Inception; Best Adapted Screenplay for Oppenheimer; and Best Picture…
Between delivering exquisite physical comedy and threatening to punch a baby, Emma Stone’s performance in Poor Things has earned her her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Stone played the lead role of Bella Baxter, a resurrected woman with a child’s brain, in Yorgos Lanthimos’ critically acclaimed film. Prior to the Oscars, she also won…
The name on everybody’s lips at the 96th Academy Awards was Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan’s historical drama took home the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as six other awards: Best Director (Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography. The Oscar win marks…
Robert Downey Jr. has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Academy Awards for his role in Oppenheimer, the first Oscar for Christopher Nolan’s latest film. In Oppenheimer, Downey Jr. played Lewis Strauss, the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who masterminded the hearing that revoked J. Robert Oppenheimer’s (Cillian Murphy)…
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the…
Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling exchanged Barbenheimer barbs while presenting a tribute to 2023’s best stunt performances at the 2024 Oscars. The two stars played the titular Barbenheimer‘s other halves: Oppenheimer’s Kitty and Barbie’s Ken. SEE ALSO: The cult of Barbenheimer: In the pursuit of saving cinema, did we all lose our minds? Before presenting…
If any category this award season seemed locked, it was Best Supporting Actress. Da’Vine Joy Randolph has absolutely dominated, winning a cascade of critics’ guild honors — including the Critics Choice Award — as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA. And tonight, she has won her first Academy Award. Tonight’s win was well-deserved and puts Randolph…
All eyes are on the Oscars tonight, and many are using the opportunity to advocate for a ceasefire and draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid ongoing protests. As the stars hit the red carpet, a large crowd gathered outside the Dolby Theatre to protest in support of Palestine, causing a traffic jam…