Rabat – British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s biopic “Oppenheimer” was the major winner at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, overtaking the “Barbie” movie.
The film received five awards and won all the major categories: Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, who stars as Robert Oppenheimer, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey, who plays a politician, the scientist’s great rival.
“As directors, we bring people together and try to get them to give their best,” Nolan, the creator of “Inception” and “Interstellar,” explained, paying tribute to his actors and actresses.
Murphy, Oppenheimer’s star actor, praised Nolan’s “rigour, focus, and dedication” in making the film, which brought in $954 million at the box office and took home the best drama film award during the ceremony.
“I knew the first time I walked on Christopher Nolan’s set that it was different,” Murphy said, adding that “I could tell by the level of rigour, focus, dedication, and the complete lack of seating options for actors that I was in the hands of a visionary director.”
On the other hand, Barbie took up the first-ever box office accomplishment award after bringing in $1.4 billion globally. Other movies such as Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, and Poor Things took home two awards each, while Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon received one.
“We would like to dedicate to every single person on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on earth – the movie theaters,” said the Barbie film’s star, Margot Robbie.
For her part, Lily Gladstone, the lead actress in Killers of the Flower Moon, won the Best Drama Actress prize, becoming the first Native American to do so. She described the win as “historic.”
“This award is a historic one. I’m so grateful I can speak even a little bit of my language, because in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English, and then their sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera,” she said.
The science fantasy “Poor Things,” saw Emma Stone win the Best Actress award for her performance. “Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person, she accepts the good and bad in equal measure,” Stone said in her acceptance speech.
“And that really made me look at life differently, and that all of it counts. She has stayed with me deeply, so this means the world to me,” she stressed.
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