Cillian Murphy Jabs Christopher Nolan for ‘Lack of Seating Options’ on His Sets as He Wins Best Actor Golden Globe for ‘Oppenheimer’

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. just picked up his third career Oscar nomination, this time in the supporting actor race for his performance in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” Many pundits are viewing Downey Jr. as the Oscar frontrunner after he won the same category at the Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice Award, plus picked up nominations from the BAFTA Film Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Shortly after the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday morning, “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan recalled watching Cillian Murphy transform into J. Robert Oppenheimer for the first time. “It was really in the hair and makeup tests, which we shoot on Imax and in black-and-white,” Nolan told Variety.

In a film career that has spanned more than 20 years, Cillian Murphy just scored his first ever Oscar nomination, for playing the titular role in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster epic Oppenheimer. 

Robert Downey Jr. has claimed that the runaway success of Oppenheimer has become “a terrible tragedy” for its introverted director Christopher Nolan.Downey made the comments while presenting Nolan with the inaugural Trailblazer Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, an honour which recognises the director’s contributions to independent filmmaking.“Confidentially, he needs his spirits lifted,” Downey joked.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Robert Downey Jr. trekked to Sundance Film Festival‘s opening night gala to reveal that a “terrible tragedy” has befallen Christopher Nolan. But don’t worry about the filmmaker behind “Oppenheimer.” His hardship is really just a bad case of the blues, and it’s because Nolan — as Downey explained on Thursday while bestowing Nolan with the first-ever Trailblazer Award — “has become recognizable on the street.” According to Downey, the critical and commercial success of “Oppenheimer” causes the British director to recoil, “as though from a hot flame, from this new and unwelcome reality.” Well, Nolan may not be retreating from the spotlight anytime soon.

Cillian Murphy will open the Berlin International Film Festival this year.Small Things Like These, directed by Peaky Blinders’ Tim Mielants, is based on the 2021 book by Irish author, Claire Keegan, and the screenplay has been written by Enda Walsh.The Oppenheimer star plays a devoted father and coal merchant named Bill Furlong. Set in 1980s Ireland, he discovers unsettling truths about the Magdalene Laundries, which were dreadful asylums run by the Roman Catholic church, said to house “fallen women”, mainly sex workers.The cast includes Belfast‘s Ciaran Hinds, Emily Watson (Chernobyl), Game Of Thrones’ Michelle Fairley, and Irish actor, Eileen Walsh, who also starred in a 2002 movie about the infamous asylums, titled The Magdalene Sisters.Murphy produced the film with Alan Moloney through their company, Big Things Films, alongside Catherine Magee.

Small Things Like These, an Irish-Belgian production. Directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the international cast includes Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson.

Ellise Shafer “Small Things Like These,” a historical drama starring Cillian Murphy, is set to open this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Directed by Tim Mielants from a script by Enda Walsh, the film will have its world premiere in the festival’s competition on Feb. 15.

Martin Scorsese’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon was named Best Picture at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, which were revealed today. The pic also took Best Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro. See the full winners list below.

Oppenheimer has won big at this year’s Critics Choice Awards, but actor Cillian Murphy missed out on receiving the award for Best Actor in one of the main upsets of the night.Christopher Nolan’s epic film about the father of the atomic bomb took home eight awards in total. Nolan earned the award for Best Director and Best Picture, while the film also saw Robert Downey Jr win the award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss, the former head of the US Atomic Energy Commission.Murphy lost out at the awards however to Paul Giamatti, who won Best Actor for his turn in The Holdovers. Collecting his award for best director, Nolan said: “To mangle a quote from Sir Isaac Newton, ‘If I appear tall it’s because I stand on the shoulders of giants’ – the particular giants I am standing on is Kai (Bird) and Marty (Sherwin) who wrote the incredible book American Prometheus and spent 25 years doing it.“I thank you Kai for trusting me with your work and Marty, unfortunately he left us before I was able to show him the final script, but Kai your constant reassurances once you saw the film that he would have approved meant the world to me.”Downey Jr meanwhile used his acceptance speech for Best Supported Actor to take joking aim at the critics who have reviewed him negatively in the past.He said: “I was thinking this morning, I just love critics… you know, they’ve given me such beautiful feedback, really just so many great moments, and some of it is so poetic.

Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards and director Christopher Nolan and his producer wife Emma Thomas gave the final two acceptance speeches of the evening!

Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. are ready for action at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards.

Oh no! Alden Ehrenreich took a little tumble up the stairs at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards after winning an award alongside his Oppenheimer co-stars.

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For Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy plunged deep into the mind and physicality of an iconic scientist that irrevocably changed our world. At once complex, conflicting, stylish and brilliant, Oppenheimer’s life and work is not an immediately obvious choice for an epic blockbuster subject. And yet, Christopher Nolan’s decision to ask his longtime collaborator Murphy to step into the physicist’s shoes resulted in a cinematic experience that would outstrip every superhero movie at the box office last year. Here, Murphy describes inhabiting the man behind the atom bomb and why he always delights in working with Nolan.

Cillian Murphy’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globes has been confirmed.Murphy picked up the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama last night at the 2024 Golden Globes, for his titular role in Christopher Nolan’s biopic, Oppenheimer.During his acceptance speech, Murphy thanked Nolan and the cast of the movie about theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, along with his team of representatives and his family.As well as acknowledging his fellow nominees, who included Barry Keoghan for Saltburn and Andrew Scott for All Of Us Strangers, he expressed his gratitude in words that were censored out for viewers at home.The line which didn’t get aired due to its profanity was, “I’m the luckiest fecking man alive.”He went on to praise Nolan for his directing, even possibly confirming a rumour which has been circulating recently.

Congratulations are in order for Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy who has won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his role in the Christopher Nolan film. While 47 year old Cillian tends to keep his home life away from the spotlight, fans caught a glimpse of his life off-screen as he picked up the award, with his longtime wife Yvonne McGuinness congratulating him with a kiss just moments before he headed on stage.

Oops! Cillian Murphy got someone’s lipstick on his face after winning at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards!

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Christopher Nolan has begun his healing journey with fitness brand Peloton after one of the acclaimed director’s instructors dissed his movie “Tenet” during a workout class. “Nothing but love for Peloton,” Nolan told Variety backstage at Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, when asked if he saw instructor Jenn Sherman’s apology for taking issue his 2020 the sci-fi film’s byzantine plot. “But I did not climb on it today.

Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer capped a big night at the Golden Globes on Sunday by taking the Best Motion Picture – Drama award, giving it five trophies on the night and solidifying it as a frontrunner for the Oscars.