“Oppenheimer,” the biographical thriller directed by Christopher Nolan about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, has been receiving numerous accolades leading up to the Academy Awards. The film took home the best cast in a motion picture award at the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, beating out other nominees such as Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” Blitz Bazawule’s “The Color Purple,” and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The following night, it also won the PGA’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award for outstanding producer of theatrical motion pictures at the Producers Guild of America Awards.
With 13 total Oscar nominations, “Oppenheimer” is currently the front-runner for the best picture category, competing against films such as “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Barbie,” “The Holdivers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Past Lives,” “Poor Things,” and “The Zone of Interest.” The film has also been recognized at the Golden Globes and Directors Guild Awards.
During the awards season, Nolan expressed his gratitude to his fellow producer Charles Royen for providing the inspiration for “Oppenheimer” with the book “American Prometheus,” as well as for “starting a chain reaction that’s spread all over the world.” Robert Downey Jr., who plays Lewis Strauss in the film, also praised it as “the highest-grossing film about theoretical physics yet made.”
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