This achievement by Cillian Murphy places him as one of the favorites to win the Oscar.
After Oppenheimer became one of the favorite films in 2023, director Christopher Nolan showed that having Cillian Murphy as the protagonist of his films is a great goal.
On this occasion, Murphy stood out with his performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, and thanks to this, he won his first Golden Globe for Best Actor in the Drama category. The artist beat Leonardo DiCaprio, nominated for Killers of the Flower Moon, Bradley Cooper for Maestro, Colman Domingo for Rustin, Andrew Scott for All of Us Strangers and Barry Keoghan for Saltburn.
Before arriving at Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy went through difficult times at work so he thought about leaving acting, however, a call from Nolan to be part of Batman changed everything. After this success he stepped into the shoes of Tomás Shelby in Peaky Blinders for six seasons.
With this glorious moment in his career, Nolan contacted him again to offer him the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A performance that may also earn him his first Oscar on March 10.
Oppenheimer cast
In addition to Murphy as Oppenheimer, the film has already confirmed the presence in its cast of Emily Blunt as the biologist and botanist Katherine 'Kitty' Oppenheimer, the wife of the protagonist.
Starring Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. as Lewis Strauss, founding commissioner of the US Atomic Energy Commission who initiated the trials that questioned Oppenheimer's loyalty. to the United States and that ended the scientist's status within the administration.
Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. Rami Malek, Dane DeHaan, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich and Matthew Modine are other names that complete the luxurious cast of Nolan's film, which had a budget close to $100 million.
Oppenheimer one of the highest-grossing bibliographic films
Oppenheimer, as reported by CNN, in one of the four bibliographic films that exceeded 500 million worldwide along with Bohemian Rhapsody, The Passion of Christ and American Sniper.
“It has become one of the most revered, talked about and successful summer films ever released by a major studio. it demonstrates the power of great cinema and, of course, a bit of the unpredictable magic of 'Barbenheimer,'” he mentioned. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore.
