Oppenheimer triumphs at the Oscars, winning 7 golden statuettes. Among the awards won by Christopher Nolan's film about the tormented story of the atomic bomb physicist there is also best film, best direction and best leading and supporting actors, out of a total of 13 nominations. An unforgettable night for the 96th edition of the Academy Awards, which ended with many emotions and some disappointments. Italy - despite the Italian nomination of "Io Capitano" by Matteo Garrone - remained empty-handed: the Academy preferred "La zona d'interest" by Jonathan Glazer, the film based on the novel by Martin Amis, as best foreign film which tells the "banal" daily life of the Auschwitz commander and his family in the house with a large garden that borders the wall of the extermination camp.
The award for best actress went to Emma Stone for Poor Creatures! by Yorgos Lanthimos (Golden Lion in Venice) in which she plays Bella Baxter, a sort of female Frankstein: the actress was visibly amazed, almost panicked, at the statuette for which Lily Gladstone from Killers of Flower Moon was the favourite. The award for best actor went to Irishman Cillian Murphy, the restless face of Oppenheimer, who dedicated the award "to peacemakers everywhere in the world".
Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers and Robert Downey Jr. were the supporting winners. For best documentary , 20 Days in Mariupol won, a harrowing story of the siege and destruction of the Ukrainian city on the front line of the Russian invasion, filmed by AP reporters Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath . And it was from Chernov that an attack on Russia came from the Dolby Theater stage, "we ask - he said - to release the hostages, recognize the strength of the soldiers who are protecting our territory, I wish I had never made this film".
In the evening hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Ryan Gosling's pink Barbie moment with an amazing performance with old Hollywood style dancers singing I'm Just Ken, while Andrea Bocelli with his son Matteo sang Con te partirò in the In Memoriam segment. For the “animation” category, Miyazaki's “The Boy and the Heron” won. Best song by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell for Barbie. Ludwig Göransson won the statuette for best soundtrack (Oppenheimer).
