'Oppenheimer' triumphs again with top film prize
- By Reuters -
- Feb 27, 2024
‘Oppenheimer’ won the top film prize at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards on Sunday night, keeping up its winning streak ahead of next month’s Oscars.
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The three-hour epic, which takes audiences back to the making of the atomic bomb during World War Two, scooped the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, a day after its cast won prizes at Hollywood’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Murphy won Best Actor in a Leading Role at the SAG Awards and his co-star Robert Downey Jr. took the Best Supporting Actor title. The film, directed by Briton Christopher Nolan, also took those awards’ top honour – best cast in a motion picture.
Among its other awards, ‘Oppenheimer’ won best film at the BAFTA Film Awards in London earlier this month and Best Motion Picture – drama at the Golden Globes in January.
Other winners at Sunday’s PGA Awards, held in Hollywood, included ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’, the documentary ‘American Symphony’ and television shows ‘The Bear’, ‘Succession’ and ‘Beef’.
Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese was also honoured with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award.