Records broken at 96th Academy Awards

The 96th Academy Awards, or the Oscars, ceremony was held on March 10 (March 11 in the Philippines) at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. 

“Oppenheimer” won seven Oscar awards: Best Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score. 

Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. arrive on the red carpet of the 96th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Nick Agro / A.M.P.A.S.)

Emma Stone arrives on the red carpet of the 96th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Nick Agro / ©A.M.P.A.S.)

"Oppenheimer" won seven Oscar awards (Instagram)

Here are the records that were set and broken at the 96th Academy Awards, according to US betting site USBets.com: 

• Emma Stone joined 26 other actresses who have won 2 or more acting Oscars for leading performances. Stone won Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2019 for “La La Land” and she won this year for “Poor Things.” Including Stone, 27 actors have won 2 or more Oscars for leading performances–17 women and 10 men. When also counting supporting performances, 45 actors have won 2 or more acting Oscars–24 women and 21 men.  

• Cillian Murphy became the first Irish-born individual to win in the Best Actor category after he won for “Oppenheimer.” Daniel Day-Lewis is a three time Best Actor winner and he has dual British-Irish citizenship, but he was born in London, while Murphy was born in Cork, Ireland.  

• Mark Ruffalo became the living actor with the most nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category without any Oscar wins. Nomination for “Poor Things” was Ruffalo’s fourth nomination. 

• Justine Triet became the first French woman to win in the Best Original Screenplay category after she won for “Anatomy of a Fall.”

• Diane Warren (nominated for the song “The Fire Inside” from the movie “Flamin’ Hot”) extended her record for the most nominations in the Best Original Song category without a win. Warren has been nominated 15 times. However, she did win the Honorary Academy Award last year. 

• “The Zone of Interest” became the first UK movie to win the Best International Feature Film Oscar. Since the main dialogue of the movie is not English, it allowed the United Kingdom to submit it for the Best International Feature Film category. Its previous nominations in the category were for films with Welsh dialogue.  

• “The Boy and The Heron” (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) became only the second non-English movie to win in the Best Animated feature category (with Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” being the first and last non-English speaking winner up until now). 

• Robert Downey Jr. bagged his first Oscar award with the Best Supporting Actor win for “Oppenheimer."