Oppenheimer sweeps Baftas as Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan win top gongs

Cillian Murphy (Ian West/PA)

Oppenheimer has swept the Baftas, where it was was named best film and won best director, best actor and best supporting actor.

Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic about J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist described as the father of the atomic bomb, scored seven awards at the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London.