Oscars Analysis: Inside The Show, The Governors Ball, Universal’s Winners Party And What It All Means

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When I caught up with him and wife Emma Thomas at the Governors Ball after their big seven Oscar win for Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan was clearly relieved. “I was genuinely nervous tonight, ” he told me. “Even after all the awards shows we’ve been to this year, this one sitting there at the Oscars was just different.” In the end he really didn’t have to worry about it.

All the pundits (including me) predicting a sweep for Universal’s blockbuster about the man who created the atomic bomb were right.

But Nolan’s veteran producing colleague Chuck Roven, who brought him the book in the first place, also confessed to a real sense of nervousness nonetheless about the fate of the film that came into the Dolby with a leading 13 nominations. “Was it because the movie didn’t win a single award until 95 minutes into show, as another contender, Poor Things, had already racked up three wins, all of them in categories where Oppenheimer was also nominated?.” I asked when I caught up with him at the big Soho House Universal after party Roven replied that was exactly why he was worried.

He didn’t have to be. It was just the way the Academy had structured the presentation that put things like Production and Costume Design and Makeup in the first half of the ceremony. “So do you get to have some rest now? ” Nolan asked me.