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

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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.

The filmmaker won his first Baftas following previous nominations for Inception and Dunkirk – and joked

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