Oppenheimer has won the Best Picture award at the Oscars

Congratulations to Oppenheimer for taking home this year's Best Picture award at the Oscars!

Hollywood's elite descended on the Dolby Theater once again to go head to head to fight for the most prestigious awards in showbiz.

This year was incredibly competitive for the Best Picture award, as the biggest movies from throughout the year anxiously waited to see whether they would be taking home the prize.

There were some notable exceptions, however, as Napoleon was a noticeable snub as it was one of the biggest movies of the year - but it sadly missed out.

Jimmy Kimmel was in charge of hosting the evening. Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty

But those with a chance were: American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things, and Zone of Interest.

Oppenheimer and Barbie were the noticeable names in the nominees, as the two movies stole the spotlight when they came out, creating the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon.

The success of these two movies shouldn't take away from the success of the other nominees, however, as each of them was an incredible movie in its own right.

This year's Best Picture category was hotly contested. Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Getty

Zone of Interest, Past Lives, and Anatomy of a Fall were international movies up for the award with the amazing Sandra Hüller being in two of them - rounding off an incredible year.

Emma Stone captured attention in Poor Things, which follows the incredible tale about the evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

American Fiction centered around a novelist, with the synopsis of the movie reading: "He's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain."

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The Holdovers held some incredible performances, notably from Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, where a grumpy teacher was forced to stay on campus with a cook and a troubled student over the holidays.

Killers of the Flower Moon was always going to be up for an award with Martin Scorcese and Leonardo Di Caprio being involved, but it was the striking story of the Osage people who were the victims of horrific murders in Oklahoma that captured attention.

Maestro was a movie surrounded with controversy due to Bradley Cooper's decision to wear a prosthetic nose to portray Leonard Bernstein - but that doesn't take away from the compelling story.

But in the end, the award went to Oppenheimer.

The stunning film centered around the creation of the atomic bomb in the USA during the Second World War, serving as a reminder of the power of humanity - and how these weapons can never be used again.

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