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Cillian Murphy wins best actor Oscar for Oppenheimer

Irish actor takes the award for his role as nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic

Murphy has the title role in the film, a biopic of pioneering atomic-weapons scientist J Robert Oppenheimer written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. Murphy defeated a strong field for the Oscar, including Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction and Bradley Cooper for Maestro. Previously, he was the lead in the Ken Loach-directed The Wind That Shakes the Barley, winner of the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2006, as well as winning two National Television Awards for period gangster series Peaky Blinders.

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