The blockbuster about the making of the atomic bomb won seven awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.
Oppenheimer, a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb during World War II, won seven awards at the 77th British Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. and won all the awards.
Sunday's win cements the film as a front-runner for next month's Oscars.
British-born director Christopher Nolan, who directed Oppenheimer, won his first BAFTA Best Director award for this film, and Irish actor Cillian Murphy plays the role of physicist J. Robert Oppen, who is known as the father of the atomic bomb. He won the Best Actor Award for his role as Heimer.
In his acceptance speech, director Nolan thanked the cast and crew for “taking on something dark” and the film's backers.
“In the real world, there are all kinds of individuals and organizations who have fought long and hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons around the world…In accepting this, I would like to salute their efforts. ” he added.
Like Nolan, Murphy is a favorite to win the category and said in his acceptance speech that he was grateful to play such a “very troubling and complex character.”
It was also a good night for the surreal dark comedy Poor Things, which won five awards, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. In the film, Stone plays a Victorian reanimated corpse who is brought back to life by a mad scientist with the soul of a child in the story of the Frankenstein woman.
She beat out competition from Barbie star Margot Robbie.
Greta Gerwig's Barbie, which turned beloved doll nostalgia into a sharp satire about misogyny and female empowerment, has so far been the top choice for this year's awards season. I haven't been able to obtain it.
Zone of Interest, a British film shot in Poland and starring a predominantly German cast, was named both Best British Film and Best Non-English Film. It also won the Best Sound Award.
The drama of the Holocaust takes place in a family home just outside the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and its horrors are heard and hinted at rather than seen.
“Walls are not new, neither before nor after the Holocaust. It seems clear now that we should be concerned about the innocent people being killed in Gaza and Yemen, Mariupol and Israel.” Producer said James Wilson.
“Thank you for recognizing a film that asks us to think in these spaces.”
Separately, the courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall'' won Best Original Screenplay, and the comedy drama “American Fiction'' won Best Original Screenplay.
The award for Best Documentary went to journalist Mstislav Chernov's personal account of the siege of a Ukrainian city in 2022, 20 Days in Mariupol, and the award for Best Animated Film went to renowned Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Dead. Heron was chosen as a “heron''.