Which award did Christopher Nolan win for directing Oppenheimer?

Christopher Nolan won the Academy Award for Best Director for Oppenheimer.

The award was presented at the 96th Academy Awards in 2024. It was Nolan’s first competitive Oscar win after earlier nominations for directing and writing, including nominations connected with Inception and Dunkirk.

Oppenheimer also won Best Picture, with Nolan among the film’s producers, as well as awards for Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., editing, cinematography, original score, and sound. The ceremony recognized the film’s combination of historical drama, scientific subject matter, and large-format filmmaking.

Nolan wrote and directed Oppenheimer, adapting American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The film stars Murphy as the Manhattan Project scientist and traces the personal and political consequences of the development of the first atomic bomb.