Christopher Nolan: ‘Oppenheimer’s Seven Oscar Wins, Including Directing and Best Picture Is “A Wonderful Finish To An Incredible Year” – Oscars Backstage
deadline.com“It’s very important to me, it’s really a wonderful finish to what’s been an incredible year,” Christopher Nolan told press backstage at the Academy Awards in the wake of winning both his Best Director Oscar for Oppenheimer, along with the biggest prize of the night: Best Picture. “It means I can do curls, they’re very heavy,” Nolan joked of his new collection of statuettes for his film about J.
Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist behind the atom bomb. In Oppenheimer, longtime Nolan collaborator Cillian Murphy enacts the history of a man who changed our world forever, with Robert Downey Jr.
as his jealous nemesis Lewis Strauss—both of whom won Oscars for their lead and supporting performances respectively. Emily Blunt starred as Kitty Oppenheimer and was nominated in the Supporting Actress category.
The film took home seven Oscars in total, including Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Original Score. “There was something about seeing Cillian with the hat on, and Robert Downey Jr.
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