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Cillian Murphy Dedicates ‘Oppenheimer’ Best Actor Oscar To “Peacemakers Everywhere”
Cillian Murphy has just won his first Oscar, as Best Actor for his riveting turn in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The "proud Irishman" dedicated the award to "peacemakers everywhere"
Murphy has received praise and won prizes all throughout the season for portraying J Robert Oppenheimer, the complicated and brilliant physicist tasked with leading the Manhattan Project, the secret effort to create the atom bomb. The story plays out in an unusual first-person approach, with a moral conundrum gathering in Oppenheimer’s head as he begins to envision the dangers beyond a short-term use of a weapon that could — and did — spark an arms race and a new world order that changed us forever. Murphy’s competition in the Best Actor category included Paul Giamatti ( The Holdovers), Bradley Cooper ( Maestro), Colman Domingo ( Rustin) and Jeffrey Wright ( American Fiction).
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