Christopher Nolan wins his first ever Oscar for directing Oppenheimer

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Christopher Nolan has won the best director Oscar for Oppenheimer at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Report informs via The Guardian that this is the first time Nolan has won the award, having previously been nominated for Dunkirk in 2018. He was considered the strong favourite for the statuette, having won a series of best director awards in the run-up to the Oscars, including a Golden Globe, Bafta, Critics Choice award and Directors Guild of America prize. At the Oscars, Nolan saw off a strong field, which included Martin Scorsese (for Killers of the Flower Moon), Justine Triet (for Anatomy of a Fall) and Yorgos Lanthimos (for Poor Things).

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