Documentary/Biopic Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

[Arachnerd]

Yes yes yes yes yes!

I will manifest this thing into existence, dammit.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Nolan, this has been a dream of mine. Please do it!!

 

[Boom]

Need it to happen at some point.

 

[Drizzle]

 

[Snow Queen]

 

[Pennywise]

 

[antsman41]

 

[Iceman]

Deservedly cleaning up in a bunch of areas. Hopefully the Oscars can be a similar night (although I’m not aware of the competition).

 

[Drizzle]

Deservedly cleaning up in a bunch of areas. Hopefully the Oscars can be a similar night (although I’m not aware of the competition).

From what I can tell, I think Oppenheimer is a lock for at least six categories:

Best Director
Best Supporting Actor
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Cinematography
Best Editing

Best Picture is very likely and Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay are certainly on the table as well.

The ones I definitely can't see it winning are:

Best Supporting Actress - As good as Blunt is in this, the Oscar is Da'Vine Joy Randolph's to lose
Best Production Design - This one's going to either Barbie or Poor Things
Best Costume Design - Again, Barbie or Poor Things
Best Makeup - Maestro will probably win the battle of the old age makeup, but even if it didn't Poor Things would still be the more likely winner over Oppenheimer

I'll bet we're looking at anywhere from 7-9 wins for Oppenheimer on Oscar night.

 

[Iceman]

From what I can tell, I think Oppenheimer is a lock for at least six categories:

Best Director
Best Supporting Actor
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Cinematography
Best Editing

Best Picture is very likely and Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay are certainly on the table as well.

The ones I definitely can't see it winning are:

Best Supporting Actress - As good as Blunt is in this, the Oscar is Da'Vine Joy Randolph's to lose
Best Production Design - This one's going to either Barbie or Poor Things
Best Costume Design - Again, Barbie or Poor Things
Best Makeup - Maestro will probably win the battle of the old age makeup, but even if it didn't Poor Things would still be the more likely winner over Oppenheimer

I'll bet we're looking at anywhere from 7-9 wins for Oppenheimer on Oscar night.

Thanks for the detailed summary.

I’ll certainly be happy with that haul. Hopefully Cillian can get the win too.

 

[Boom]

Picture
Director
Supporting Actor
Cinematography
Editing
Score

I'm tempted to predict Leading Actor but that could be completely undone by SAG next Sunday if Giamatti wins there.

I think it could still spoil at Adapted Screenplay but I'm not holding my breath there.

 

[BatLobster]

Picture
Director
Supporting Actor
Cinematography
Editing
Score

I'm tempted to predict Leading Actor but that could be completely undone by SAG next Sunday if Giamatti wins there.

I think it could still spoil at Adapted Screenplay but I'm not holding my breath there.

Guest Essay: J. Robert Oppenheimer Biographer on the Nearly Impossible Adaptation

Multiple people attempted to bring the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography 'American Prometheus' to the screen — but Christopher Nolan was the only one to succeed.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

After reading this essay from Kai Bird (author of American Prometheus), I'm more convinced than ever it deserves the Adapted Screenplay win. Apparently there were several failed attempts to get this adaptation off the ground over the years, including a previous version with a "major director" attached. Hollywood wasn't able to crack it until Nolan came along and brought his sensibilities to it. Says a lot both about how challenging the material is/was and just what an impressive job Nolan did wrestling all of it into such an immersive narrative.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[antsman41]

 

[redfirebird2008]

Guest Essay: J. Robert Oppenheimer Biographer on the Nearly Impossible Adaptation

Multiple people attempted to bring the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography 'American Prometheus' to the screen — but Christopher Nolan was the only one to succeed.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

After reading this essay from Kai Bird (author of American Prometheus), I'm more convinced than ever it deserves the Adapted Screenplay win. Apparently there were several failed attempts to get this adaptation off the ground over the years, including a previous version with a "major director" attached. Hollywood wasn't able to crack it until Nolan came along and brought his sensibilities to it. Says a lot both about how challenging the material is/was and just what an impressive job Nolan did wrestling all of it into such an immersive narrative.

It was definitely not an easy project to turn a 700+ page book into a very good 3 hour movie.

For perspective, American Fiction's source novel was less than 300 pages and the film was almost 2 hours long. A similar amount of movie time compared to page count would have required a 290 minute runtime for the Oppenheimer film. Damn near 5 hours, which is clearly not a single film.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Gothamsknight]

That's beautiful

 

[Arachnerd]

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I will never not love this man.

 

[Man in the Suit]

 

[Drizzle]

That note from Nolan is touching but I'm assuming he meant the lead in one of his own films? Cillian has been the lead in a couple of movies before Oppenheimer going back to the beginning of his career.

 

[redfirebird2008]

That note from Nolan is touching but I'm assuming he meant the lead in one of his own films? Cillian has been the lead in a couple of movies before Oppenheimer going back to the beginning of his career.

Yes, 5 supporting roles with Nolan before this Oppy project. Chris got to see Cillian as the Lead this time.

 

[Enriquespy]

Saw it finally!!!

Cillian and Downey were great. The whole cast was in fact.

Spoiler: Boom.

The effects for the test scene were good, but it clearly looked like a well designed fire bomb. Oppy's hallucinations had cooler effects, in my opinion

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The editing from scene to scene is tight, but the overall structure of the film as a whole made it a bit slow.

The music and sound was great but it reminded me a bit too much of TDKR and Inception.

Also, It was probably just me being distracted, but I had a bit of a problem keeping up with all the names.

The production design was impeccable too, as usual with Nolan.

Time to see Barbie.

 

[antsman41]

^all of us

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Drizzle]

^all of us

Moreso than the movie itself, I remember both that line and "Tell us, Mr. Wayne...what do you fear?" just from the Begins trailer being attached to Revenge of the Sith, which I saw a bunch of times in theaters.