Spike Lee Suggests ‘Oppenheimer’ Epilogue, Gives ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone His Oscar Vote
deadline.comOscar winner Spike Lee has shared some thoughts about two of the highest-profile movie titles of 2023, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon.
The Do the Right Thing filmmaker listed the two films when he was asked during a Washington Post interview what recent movies are inspiring him. “That’s my guy,” Lee said of Scorsese, calling his latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, “a great film.” A Film Academy member, Lee signgled out the performance of the movie’s breakout star, Lily Gladstone, who could become the first Native American actress to win a Lead Actress Oscar. “Lily Gladstone, she’s winning an Oscar,” Lee said. “She’s got my vote.” Lee also called Oppenheimer a “great film” and Nolan “a massive filmmaker,” revealing that he showed Nolan’s World War II epic Dunkirk in the class he teaches at NYU.
With the caveat that this is “a comment”, not “a criticism,” Lee said, “I would like to add some more minutes about what happened to the Japanese people.
People got vaporized. Many years later, people are radioactive. “It’s not like he didn’t have power,” Lee said of Nolan. “He tells studios what to do.
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