PEAKY BLINDERS legend Cillian Murphy capped off his domination of awards season by claiming the top acting prize for film on home soil. The Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG award winner on Saturday night added perhaps a final statue to his flawless haul for Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER, when he was named best lead actor at the 21st Irish Film and TV Academy Awards. Murphy’s next project SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE earned the actor rave reviews following it’s Opening Night World Premiere at Berlinale 2024.

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Cork native Cillian Murphy made history on Sunday night becoming the first Irish-born actor to claim BEST ACTOR at the Oscars for his career-defining role in OPPENHEIMER. As predicted, the film dominated proceedings, winning best picture, best director for Christopher Nolan, and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. Murphy is the third Irish actor to win the best actor Oscar, following Daniel Day-Lewis, who was born in London but holds Irish citizenship, and Barry Fitzgerald who won in 1945. Murphy thanked Nolan and Emma Thomas, his producer, as well as his team and his family. He ended his speech by saying he was a “very very proud Irishman”.

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Cillian Murphy has been named best actor at the 30th Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles for his lead performance in Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER. Murphy spoke with dignity as he received the “Actor” statuette. “This is extremely special because it comes from you guys,” he said to his fellow performers. “Twenty-eight years ago I was trying to become an actor. I was a failed musician and I felt like an interloper. But now, looking out and all of you guys here today, I know that I’m part of something truly wonderful.”.

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In the latest Cillian Murphy GQ interview, the Cork native talks about his unimpeachable body of work as one of our most versatile actors, while somehow also staying cleverly out of sight. Now, as an Oscar front-runner, the OPPENHEIMER star pulls back the curtain on how director Christopher Nolan chose him for the role of his career. The result was one of the most watched and most acclaimed films of 2023—a nearly billion-dollar blockbuster about a tormented genius (and, yes, the father of the atomic bomb). 

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A long-awaited sequel to the zombie flick 28 DAYS LATER has officially been greenlit at Sony – with OPPENHEIMER lead Cillian Murphy to executive produce and possibly star. Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have returned, with Boyle directing Part One and Garland penning the script. The original film follows a bicycle courier (Murphy) who wakes up from a coma only to find that a virus (dubbed the ‘rage virus’) has all but destroyed society.

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