Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Earned a Staggering Amount of Wins at Critics Choice Awards: Robert Downey Jr’s Best Supporting Actor Victory and More
It is raining awards on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and no one is complaining a bit. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Oppenheimer is an American biographical thriller film that portrays the life of J Robert Oppenheimer, who is credited as the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project in WWII. It was Nolan’s first film to receive an R rating in the United States after Insomnia.
The film grossed over $950 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 2023, the highest-grossing World War II-related film, the highest-grossing biographical film, and the second-highest-grossing R-rated film. Recently, at the Golden Globe, the movie toppled over Barbie with five wins and the Critics Choice Awards were not any different.
Oppenheimer’s Opulence Of Wins At The Critics Choice Awards Dominates Over Others
Director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the real MVP at the Critics Choice Awards 2024, was like no other. The movie has been dominating the award circuit ever since the award season started and the Critics Choice Awards were no different. It won the most prizes, including the Best Picture Award. Robert Downey Jr deservedly won Best Supporting Actor again after the Golden Globe. It also managed to take home awards in categories such as Best Director, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Score, all deserving wins as unanimously agreed by fans and critics alike.
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While accepting the award for Best Picture on behalf of his team, producer Emma Thomas gave a glimpse into how this magnum opus was crafted (via. @danielnapoli5313 on YouTube).
“Our films usually start pretty small, it’s kind of a family business, so sometimes it’s conversations around the breakfast table with our kids but gradually we sort of bring more and more people on and it sort of expands.”
Thomas showered praise on the Oppenheimer team before they all hugged it out on stage
“I could not be more grateful for the work and for just knowing all of these brilliant brilliant people.”
The other half of the cultural phenomenon of Barbenheimer, Barbie, just fell short of two awards with six wins. Even though Barbie was leading the field with a staggering 18 nominations, in the end, it was Oppenheimer that had the last word.
Oppenheimer Finally Gets Peacock Streaming Release Date
Oppenheimer is finally coming to NBCUniversal’s Peacock and the audience cannot keep calm. The movie will start streaming on Peacock from February 16, 2024 onward, after nearly seven months of its release, according to Variety.
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In addition to this, Peacock will also add other Nolan flicks to its streaming site, which would include Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Dunkirk, and Memento.
Oppenheimer was out on Blu-ray on November 21, 2023.
