Which film won Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars?
Quick answer
Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, 2024. It won 7 Oscars in total, including Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
Oppenheimer’s 7 Oscars
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Best Picture | Oppenheimer |
| Best Director | Christopher Nolan |
| Best Actor | Cillian Murphy |
| Best Supporting Actor | Robert Downey Jr. |
| Best Cinematography | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| Best Film Editing | Jennifer Lame |
| Best Original Score | Ludwig Göransson |
The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb during World War II, and the moral questions that haunted him afterward. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus.
“2024 Oscars” vs films of 2023
The 2024 ceremony honored films released in 2023. That’s why Oppenheimer, released in July 2023, won at the 2024 Oscars. It was part of the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, opening the same weekend as Barbie.
Recent Best Picture winners
| Ceremony | Film |
|---|---|
| 2026 (98th) | One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson) |
| 2025 (97th) | Anora (Sean Baker) |
| 2024 (96th) | Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) |
| 2023 (95th) | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2022 (94th) | CODA |
| 2021 (93rd) | Nomadland |
| 2020 (92nd) | Parasite, the first non-English-language Best Picture winner |
The most Oscars ever
Three films share the record of 11 Oscars: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
For the first winner of the animated category, see Shrek.
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