The 96th Academy Awards took place on March 10, 2024. The Academy’s ceremony archive lists Oppenheimer as the best picture winner, with producers Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan named in the record.
In this archive note ↓
From predictions to results
The same archive records Nolan’s directing win, Cillian Murphy’s leading actor win and Robert Downey Jr.’s supporting actor win. These are recorded award outcomes, rather than forecasts or a ranking of the year’s films.
A date worth keeping straight
The ceremony happened in 2024 while honoring films released in 2023. Keeping the ceremony date visible makes an awards timeline easier to read. This page uses March 10 as the event date; it is not a historical publication date for Hollywood Current.
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The linked Academy page includes the complete nominations and results. It supplies the evidence for this short archive note. The theater photograph is an illustration of Hollywood moviegoing, not a photograph of the ceremony.
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