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Cillian Murphy completes awards season domination with historic Oscar win

Cork-native becomes the first Irish-born star to win the Academy Award for Best Actor

Cillian Murphy had already won a Golden Globe, a Bafta and a Screen Actors Guild award for his starring turn as theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic about the father of the atomic bomb. Picture: Getty

Cillian Murphy completed his sweep of awards season as he landed an Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer.

He becomes the first Irish-born star to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

The Cork actor had already won a Golden Globe, a Bafta and a Screen Actors Guild award for his starring turn as theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.

Murphy said he would be “very ...