Cillian Murphy Wins Best Actor At The Irish Film and TV Academy Awards For Oppenheimer

After his mega wins at the Oscars & BAFTA, the Oppenheimer star makes his mark at the 21st Irish Film and TV Academy Awards.

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00:00Cillian Murphy is flooded with honours and awards for his remarkable performance in Oppenheimer.

00:06Cillian has now won Best Actor at the 21st Irish Film and TV Academy Awards following

00:13his huge victories at the BAFTA and Oscars 2024 as reported by Variety.

00:19While being honoured with the award, he said,

00:22God, I am still so brutal at this, but being in this room is so special, being at home

00:29with people that I love and admire amongst my fellow nominees and some of my favourite

00:34people, it feels lovely being home with so many friends and colleagues.

00:38Held in the Dublin Royal Convention Centre and hosted by Baz Ashman, the awards ceremony

00:45honoured both recognised talents and upcoming stars in Irish cinema and television, celebrating

00:52achievement in the field. Murphy played the part of J. Robert Oppenheimer

00:57in Christopher Nolan's film The American Physicist, who designed the atomic bomb. Speaking

01:02of his next endeavours, he's scheduled to play Tommy Shellboy in the movie Peaky Blinders

01:08once again. For the unversed, Oppenheimer grossed $970

01:12million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 2023, the highest-grossing World War

01:19II-related film and the highest-grossing biographical film too.

01:24In addition, Killian will also produce and feature in the film adaptation of the non-fiction

01:30book Blood Runs Cold. The book's rights have been acquired by Universal. The 2020 book

01:37Blood Runs Cold, the Yablogs, Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of

01:42America serves as the inspiration for the project.