Bangkok Post – ‘Oppenheimer’ sweeps the BAFTAs with 7 awards including best film

LONDON – “Oppenheimer”, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster movie about the development of the atomic bomb, swept the board at the EE British Academy Film Awards in London on Sunday.

The movie won seven awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, including best film, best director for Nolan and best leading actor for Cillian Murphy for his portrayal of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

It beat four other nominees to the best film prize, including “Poor Things“, Yorgos Lanthimos’ take on a Frankenstein story; and “The Holdovers“, Alexander Payne’s comedy about a boarding schoolteacher stuck looking after a student over the holidays. It also beat “Killers of the Flower Moon“, Martin Scorsese’s 3-1/2-hour epic about the Osage murders of the 1920s; and “Anatomy of a Fall“, Justine Triet’s multilingual courtroom drama about a woman accused of murdering her husband.

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