Cillian Murphy Wins 2024 Best Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer - Watch His Speech: "I'm a Little Overwhelmed"

Cillian Murphy can certainly hear the music after winning a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as theoretical physicist and "father of the atomic bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer(now streaming exclusively a data-entity-href="https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer" data-entity-title="https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer" href="https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"on Peacock/a)./p pThe World War II biopic centered around Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project — which received universal critical acclaim and grossed nearly $1 billion at the a href="https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/oppenheimer-becomes-highest-grossing-biopic-of-all-time" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"worldwide box office/a — was a href="https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-oscar-nominations-2024" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"nominated for a total of 13 Academy Awards/a, the most of any movie released in 2023. This is the first Oscar nomination and victory for Murphy, who has a href="https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/oppenheimer-stars-explain-christopher-nolan-collaboration" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"collaborated with Nolan/a for almost two decades onemBatman Begins/em, He beat out the likes of Paul Giamatti (emThe Holdovers/em), Jeffrey Wright (emAmerican Fiction/em), Bradley Cooper (emMaestro/em), and Colman Domingo (emRustin/em)./p pstrongRELATED:a href="https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/what-did-j-robert-oppenheimer-do-after-he-made-the-atomic-bomb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"What Did J. Robert Oppenheimer Do After He Made the Atomic Bomb?/a/strong/p h2Watch Cillian Murphy's Oscar Acceptance Speech for Best Actor/h2 p"I'm a little overwhelmed," Murphy said during his acceptance speech. "Thank you to The Academy, Chris Nolan, and [producer] Emma Thomas. It's been the wildest, most exhilarating, most creatively satisfying journey you've taken me on over the last 20 years. I owe you more than I can say. Thank you so much. Every single crew member, every single cast member on emOppenheimer/em, you guys carried me through. All my fellow nominees, I remain in awe of you guys. Truly ... I'm a very proud Irishman standing here tonight. We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb and for better or for worse, we're all living in Oppenheimer's world, so I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere."/p p/pdiv class="embed-code-other embed-code-youtube"iframe loading="lazy" fetchpriority="low" src="about:blank" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUg-dZMrEjA?si=bdjcU2CjuJScSN48" class="optanon-category-13" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 560 / 315;"/iframe/div div class="blog-post__faq" div class="faq--question" h2How Many Oscars Did emOppenheimer/em Win at the 2024 Academy Awards?/h2 /div div class="faq--answer" pChristopher Nolan's emOppenheimer /emcleaned up at the 2024 Academy Awards, winning seven Oscars:/p ulliBest Picture/li liBest Director (Christopher Nolan)/li liBest Actor (Cillian Murphy)/li liBest Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.)/li liBest Editing (Jennifer Lame)/li liBest Cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema)/li liBest Original Score (Ludwig Göransson)/li /ul/div /div pa data-entity-href="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024" data-entity-title="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024" href="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Click here/afor the complete list of winners./p h2How to WatchemOppenheimer /emRight Now/h2 pemOppenheimer/emis now streaminga data-entity-href="https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer" data-entity-title="https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer" href="https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"exclusively on Peacock/aalongside a slew of behind-the-scenes featurettes./p pThe NBCUniversal platform currently offersa href="https://www.peacocktv.com/plans/all-monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"two monthly subscription plans/a: Premium ($5.99 a month with ads) and Premium Plus ($11.99 a month with no ads and download access for certain titles).If you're a student, you can enjoy the Premium plana href="https://www.peacocktv.com/student?cid=2301evgpkpdsearch13071amp;utm_campaign=2301evgamp;utm_source=pk_ggl_gglsaamp;utm_medium=pd_search_br_srcpyamp;utm_term=142554_d60128damp;utm_content=142554_d60128d_142554_d60128damp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwgNanBhDUARIsAAeIcAsNlgrSv5UlQljBwTT8gfeH2aiIMh_yj7nCugFLx2dgX7ZoluIHoTsaAhBjEALw_wcBamp;gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"for just $1.99/afor an entire year!/p pNot a Peacock subscriber just yet? The film is also available to purchase from a data-entity-href="https://www.uphe.com/movies/oppenheimer" data-entity-title="https://www.uphe.com/movies/oppenheimer" href="https://www.uphe.com/movies/oppenheimer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Universal Pictures Home Entertainment/a!/p