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Oppenheimer set to dominate at the Oscars as SAG Awards seals Barbie’s fate
It wasn't endless success for Oppenheimer and the cast
OPPENHEIMER is set to flatten Barbie once and for all at the Oscars after winning big at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The atomic bomb biopic won three out of the four gongs it was nominated for — while Barbie left empty-handed again following last week’s snub at the Baftas.
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It paves a clear path for huge wins at the Oscars in a fortnight, with the SAG Awards historically being seen as the clearest predictor for success at Hollywood’s biggest night of the year.
Irish actor Cillian Murphy, 47, won the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role gong for his role as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer — and is now the hot favourite to scoop the same Academy prize.
His co-star Robert Downey Jr, 58, received the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role award for playing government official Lewis Strauss.
Neither have won an Oscar — although Robert has had two nominations.
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Oppenheimer lost out to Barbie at the box office, but beat off competition from the Margot Robbie/Ryan Gosling-fronted film in the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
It means that Oppenheimer is now the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars — which will air live on ITV in the UK on March 10 — where it is up for 13 awards.
As well as Margot, 33, other leading ladies at the LA event included Maestro actress Carey Mulligan, 38, and American star Emma Stone, 35 — both of whom lost out to Lily Gladstone, 37.
Lily won the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role award for her turn in Martin Scorsese’s western crime drama Killers Of The Flower Moon.
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Barbra Streisand, 81, made a rare public appearance to collect the Lifetime Achievement Award, with Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper being among those paying tribute to her.
Speaking on stage, the superstar name-checked Jewish film pioneers who changed their names to avoid discrimination, including the Polish film producer Samuel Goldwyn.
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She said: “I can’t help but think back to the people who built this industry.
“Ironically, they were also escaping their own troubles.
“They were all fleeing the prejudice they faced in eastern Europe, simply because of their religion. And they were dreamers, like all of us here tonight.
“And now I dream of a world where such prejudice is a thing of the past.”
- SATURDAY night’s ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles is airing on Netflix.
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