With Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt Scores Her First-Ever Oscar Nomination

Emily Blunt is nominated for an Oscar! But it might surprise fans of the British actress Oppenheimer marks her first Oscar nomination.

For her performance as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, the wife of physicist and Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 40-year-old actress won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on Jan. 23.

“I’m completely overwhelmed and overjoyed. My legs are weak and I’m beyond grateful for this moment,” Blunt said in a statement Tuesday. “It goes without saying that this stunning film changed my life. A massive congratulations to my OpenHomies who all blew the doors off in their respective areas.”

“We’re a family in this, so raising a glass with friends is a really euphoric feeling,” she added.

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Joining Mary Poppins is back star in the supporting actress category is Danielle Brooks for PurpleDa’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers, America Ferrera for Barbie and Jodie Foster for Nyad. The winner will be announced on March 10 at the 96th Academy Awards.

Along with Blunt, the other first-time acting nominees this year are: Brooks, Sterling K. Brown (American fiction), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Ferrera, Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer), Randolph and Jeffrey Wright (American fiction).

Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt in “Oppenheimer”.

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Despite leading and stealing scenes in a wide range of films, Blunt has never received an Academy Award until now. Her breakout role in the 2005 TV movie Gideon’s daughter starring Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson, won her a Golden Globe. She accepted the award at the 2007 ceremony, where she was also nominated for her supporting role alongside Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep in The devil wears Prada — her first of seven acting Globe nods, which includes Young Victoria, Salmon fishing in Yemen and Into the forest.

For those full of action Edge of tomorrow with Tom Cruise, won the Critics Choice Award in 2015. Husband John Krasinski — with whom Blunt shares daughters Hazel, 9, and Violet, 7 — surprised her on stage when she accepted the honor.

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Before her Oppenheimer Along with the Oscar, Blunt had the unusual distinction of being one of only two actors to win a Screen Actors Guild award without any Academy recognition. 2019 for the main role in Krasinski quiet place she took home the statuette, only to be left off the Oscar ballot. (If Beale Street Could TalkSAG-nominated Regina King took home that year’s Oscar.) For 2016 Beasts of No NationIdris Elba is now the only SAG winner in history who has not yet been nominated by the Academy.

Despite her lack of recognition thus far, Blunt has appeared at the Academy Awards numerous times as her career has continued to thrive. At the 2007 ceremony, she and Hathaway memorably presented the Oscar for Best Costume Design Maria Antoinettemocking them Prada characters.

Oppenheimer became the third highest-grossing film of 2023 and is now the highest-grossing biopic of all time. It also marks the first time Blunt has ever starred in a Best Picture nomination. In an interview with PEOPLE, she equated filming on location in New Mexico to being at “summer camp.”

“We were all in the same hotel in the middle of the New Mexico desert,” she recalled in July. “We only had each other.”

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Emily Blunt at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards on January 14.

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That is, except for Cillian Murphy, whose impressive portrayal of Oppenheimer, Blunt joked, involved eating just “one almond every day.”

“The sheer volume of what he had to take on is so monumental,” Blunt said of her Oscar-nominated co-star. – Of course he didn’t want to come to dinner with us.

The 96th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will air live on Sunday, March 10, with coverage from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California beginning at 7:00 PM ET.

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