If “Oppenheimer” wins more than 11 awards it will break the record for the most Oscars ever won by a single film.
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Sunday night’s 96th Academy Awards could bring the first Native American acting winner in a tight Best Actress race, a record number of awards for a biopic about the atomic bomb—while protestors have threatened to shut it down.Key Facts
Lily Gladstone’s work in “Killers of the Flower Moon” could make her the first Native American or Indigenous actor to win an Academy Award for acting.
But the category of Best Actress remains the greatest toss-up among Oscar bet-makers, where Gladstone faces close competition with “Poor Things” actress Emma Stone, who has also won awards for her performance this award season.
The other three major acting categories have had the same winners at most of this season’s award shows: Best Supporting Actress has gone to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for “The Holdovers,” Best Supporting Actor has gone to Robert Downey Jr. for “Oppenheimer” and Best Actor to Cillian Murphy for “Oppenheimer.