Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer leads as Cillian Murphy wins best actor and Nolan wins director

Halifax’s Ben Proudfoot wins best documentary short film for The Last Repair Shop

Jenna Benchetrit · CBC News ·

It’s Hollywood’s biggest night: The 2024 Oscars ceremony kicked off on Sunday evening with host Jimmy Kimmel.

Oppenheimer‘s Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. won awards for best actor and best supporting actor, respectively, while The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph took home the best supporting actress trophy.

Halifax’s Ben Proudfoot was the first Canadian winner of the evening, winning best documentary short film for co-directing The Last Repair Shop.

While Poor Things took an early lead in the creative categories — winning best makeup and hairstyling, best costume design and best production design — Oppenheimer pulled ahead with its two acting wins, plus awards for editing, cinematography and score.

The Zone of Interest won in the best international feature category.

Director Wes Anderson, who has been nominated for several Oscars over the years, won his first tonight when The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar won the prize for best live action short film.

Halifax filmmaker Ben Proudfoot, left, and his collaborator Kris Bowers won the best documentary short film award for The Last Repair Shop during the 96th Oscars on Sunday night. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

Billie Eilish took home Barbie‘s first trophy of the evening, winning best original song for her piano ballad What Was I Made For? She accepted the award with her brother and producer, Finneas O’Connell.

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The ceremony began airing on ABC at 7 p.m. ET (an hour earlier than usual) and is streaming on ABC’s website. CBC News reporter Eli Glasner is on the ground at famed Oscars venue the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

This story will be updated with a full winners list throughout the evening, and a recap of the show will be published later tonight. For more Oscars content, follow along with CBC News on X and on TikTok.

An Oscar statue is pictured at the red carpet, a day ahead of the 96th annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on March 9, 2024. (Pedro Ugarte/AFP via Getty Images)

The list of winners

Best supporting actress:

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad

Best animated short film:

War Is Over! Inspired By the Music of John and Yoko
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme

Best animated feature film:

The Boy and the Heron
Nimona
Elemental
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best original screenplay:

Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December

Best adapted screenplay:

American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

Best makeup and hairstyling:

Poor Things
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow

Best production design:

Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer

Best costume design:

Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer

Best international feature film:

The Zone of Interest
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers’ Lounge

Best supporting actor:

Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best visual effects:

Godzilla Minus One
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3
The Creator
Napoleon

Best film editing:

Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things

Best documentary short film:

The Last Repair Shop
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island In Between
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó

Da’Vine Joy Randolph poses on the Oscars red carpet ahead of her best supporting actress win for The Holdovers. (Ashley Landis/Invision/The Associated Press)

Best documentary feature:

20 Days in Mariupol
To Kill a Tiger
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters

Best cinematography:

Oppenheimer
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Poor Things

Best live action short film:

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Invincible
The After
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue

Best sound:

The Zone of Interest
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer

Best original score:

Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Poor Things

Best original song:

What Was I Made For? from Barbie
The Fire Inside from Flamin’ Hot
I’m Just Ken from Barbie
It Never Went Away from American Symphony
Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon

Best actor:

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best director:

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jenna Benchetrit

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Jenna Benchetrit is a senior writer with the business content unit at CBC News. She has also covered entertainment and education stories. A Montrealer based in Toronto, Jenna holds a master’s degree in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. You can reach her at jenna.benchetrit@cbc.ca.

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