Cillian Murphy, the triumph of a "proud Irish man" at the Oppenheimer Oscars. The 47-year-old Irishman, intense gaze and fame as a humble guy will be remembered for more than just his role in Peaky Blinders as the bloodthirsty Thomas "Tommy" Shelby.

His Oscar is the culmination of an atypical relationship of many years with Christopher Nolan that began with Batman Begins (2005), playing Scarecrow, and which has gone through Inception and Dunkirk.