Cillian Murphy accepts the leading actor award for Oppenheimer at the 2024 Baftas, held at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Photograph: Kate Green/Bafta/Getty ImagesCillian Murphy has been named best actor at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, in London, for his performance as the eponymous father of the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which also won the award for best film. He therefore remains on track to become the second Irish person – and the first born in the country – to win best actor at the Oscars. “Oppenheimer was this colossally knotty, complex character, and he meant different things to different people,” Murphy said. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, looking unbeatable at the Oscars, won best supporting actress for the charming period comedy The Holdovers.

Source: The Irish Times February 19, 2024 08:54 UTC