Cillian Murphy has won the Oscar for best actor for his role in Oppenheimer at the 96th Academy Awards.
Murphy has the title role in the film, a biopic of pioneering atomic-weapons scientist J Robert Oppenheimer written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. It marked Murphy’s sixth collaboration with Nolan, having first appeared as the Scarecrow in Nolan’s Batman Begins.
