LOS ANGELES, March 11 (Reuters) - "Oppenheimer," the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed the prestigious best picture trophy at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, March 11 (Reuters) - British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan won his first Academy Award on Sunday, clinching best director for his historical drama "Oppenheimer" about the man behind the development of the atomic bomb during World War Two.

LOS ANGELES, March 10 (Reuters) - Cillian Murphy earned his first Academy Award for his portrayal in “Oppenheimer” of the physicist who led the United States’ development of the atomic bomb during World War Two.

LONDON, Feb 19: Atom bomb epic “Oppenheimer” won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, cementing its front-runner status for the Oscars next month.

POKHARA, Feb 17: On the third day of the 11th edition of the Nepal Literature Festival, the first session featured a conversation with Kai Bird, an author and columnist best known for his work "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer," a 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear weapons.

KATHMANDU, Feb 3: World famous Hollywood film 'Oppenheimer' famous writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Kai Bird is coming to Nepal to participate in Nepal Literature Festival-2024.

NEW YORK, Jan 24: After a tumultuous movie year marked by strikes and work stoppages, the Academy Awards showered nominations Tuesday on Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, “Oppenheimer,” which came away with a leading 13 nominations.

Few can trail along the complex terrain of groundbreaking achievements. And, filmmakers chose the story of such titans to compound it into a blockbuster. In this genre, the character is nonfictional but the dramatization isn’t. Thus, the filmmaker's dramatization could, to an extent, divorce it from reality.

“ Barbenheimer ” didn’t just work – it spun box office gold. The social media-fueled fusion of Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie ” and Christopher Nolan’s “ Oppenheimer ” brought moviegoers back to the theaters in record numbers this weekend, vastly outperforming projections and giving a glimmer of hope to the lagging exhibition business, amid the sobering backdrop of strikes.

Following Thursday’s announcement that SAG-AFTRA is joining WGA on the picket lines, thereby barring both on-camera work and promotional activity for actors, the red carpet cancellations have begun, as per the report of The Hollywood Reporter.

The official first poster of ‘Oppenheimer’ has been dropped by Universal Pictures on July 21, Thursday.