In an homage to perspiration as well as inspiration, and more than two decades after his maiden nomination, the British director Christopher Nolan won a first Academy Award for his epic biographical drama, Oppenheimer.
It capped a good night overall for the UK, with seven Oscars, including, unusually, best foreign film (for British director Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, a film spoken largely in German, Polish and Yiddish) and a hat-trick of behind-the-camera gongs for Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things.
