Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor as Oppenheimer continues awards season sweep at SAG Awards

The film was also presented with the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture which Kenneth Branagh, who plays physicist Niels Bohr in the film, described as a “full circle moment” following the actors’ strikes.

Cillian Murphy accepts the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for Oppenheimer during the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello/PA)

Cillian Murphy picked up the best actor in a motion picture gong for his role in Oppenheimer during the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, while the film won best cast in a motion picture.

Christopher Nolan’s biopic, in which Murphy plays theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer – described as the father of the atomic bomb – continued its awards season success during the 30th SAG Awards ceremony.