It’s no wonder that Oppenheimer got here out on most sensible on the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 7.
The movie won 5 awards all the way through the night time, together with the largest honor of the night time: Perfect Movement Image — Drama. Oppenheimer’s director Christopher Nolan used to be awarded Perfect Director with Cillian Murphy successful Perfect Actor in a Movement Image – Drama for his identify position as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Robert Downey Jr. additionally took the degree when he used to be awarded Perfect Supporting Efficiency in a Movement Image for his position as Lewis Strauss. Ludwig Göransson took house a Golden Globe when he authorized the Perfect Authentic Rating award.
The primary of the 2024 awards displays came about at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday night time and used to be a star-studded affair. After a 12 months of extremely mentioned motion pictures — and months of anticipation — Hollywood’s greatest came upon which movie would pop out victorious amongst all of the relaxation.
When the Golden Globe nominees had been introduced in December 2023, Barbie used to be on most sensible with 9 nominations — essentially the most this 12 months. Together with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling being up for performing accolades after enjoying Barbie and Ken, respectively, the film had 3 songs within the Perfect Authentic Track class. Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For” (which received), Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” and Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” had been all nominated for that award. The movie’s director Greta Gerwig and her husband, Noah Baumbach, had been additionally nominated in combination within the Perfect Screenplay class.
Going head-to-head with Barbie used to be Oppenheimer with 8 nominations. This, in fact, is reasonably harking back to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon that took over the web in July 2023. Each motion pictures had been launched at the similar day closing 12 months, and web customers made memes of the flicks’ massively other aesthetics.
“I think it happened because both movies were good,” Cillian Murphy, who performed J. Robert Oppenheimer within the biographical movie, instructed Barbie’s Robbie throughout Selection’s “Actors on Actors” collection in December 2023. “In fact, that summer, there was a huge diversity of stuff in the cinema, and I think it just connected in a way that you or I or the studios or anybody could never have predicted.”
With the exception of the film’s 5 wins, Emily Blunt used to be additionally nominated for Perfect Supporting Actress for her position as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Director Nolan were given a Perfect Screenplay nod, as neatly. The movie total used to be additionally up for Perfect Movement Image — Drama and Cinematic and Field Administrative center Success, which Barbie in the long run received.
Trailing Oppenheimer used to be Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Deficient Issues, each with seven nominations. Celine Track’s Previous Lives had 5 nominations, together with Perfect Director.
Anatomy of a Fall, Maestro and Would possibly December all had 4 nominations. The latter of the 3 put Charles Melton at the map following his Riverdale repute. This marked the actor’s first-ever Golden Globe nomination within the Perfect Supporting Actor class. “I am so happy,” Melton instructed Cut-off date closing month in regards to the performing fulfillment.