The concept is always the same, an award, although deserved, adds nothing to the film itself. Rather, an award should be understood as recognition for the work done, and a good film remains a good film even without statuettes (and the history of cinema is full of great films that have not won anything). However, an award can in some way pique the attention of the public who, in some way, will tend to legitimize the award itself through its unquestionable judgment, and it is no coincidence that the awarded films tend to do well both at the box office and in admissions. streaming or television. The spectator wants to participate in the success, have his say, become the protagonist of “that film that won the Oscar®”. In 2008, at least in Italy, it happened with Slumdog Millionaireand rebound, despite the Covid restrictions, with Everything Everywhere all at Once in 2022. The same paradigm, we are ready to bet, happens with Oppenheimer Of Christopher Nolanready to establish itself among the most watched films on digital, with its arrival in streaming on NOW.
The speech, linked to the awards, is in fact functional to the mammoth film that tells the life of the scientist by J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy. Well seven Oscars® won out of thirteen nominations, and then the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, the Critic’s Choice Awards. A palmares that pays off Oppenheimer one of the most successful films in history, which proved to be decidedly attractive even (and perhaps above all?) after its release in theatres.
Oppenheimer, the film’s path in the Award Season
Yes why Oppenheimer, although Christopher Nolan designed it to the size and size of the theater, today it has a partially increased interest value: those who have seen it can appreciate it at home, while others can finally enjoy it, taking into consideration the numerous awards on the board. Suffice it to say that before the triumphant Oscar® ceremony, the film had already achieved success 272 awards (the total amounts to 548 nominations and 319 awards). A crazy number. We will immediately mention those that come from trade associations: the Directors Guild of America Award going to Christopher Nolan, immediately followed by the Screen Actors Guild Award ceremony, with the victories going to Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jy.who plays Lewis Strauss, and ad Emily Bluntin the role of Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine, in addition to the Best Film Cast, which you can watch together in streaming on NOW.
Incredible success also at the Saturn Awards, which since 1973 have rewarded the best science fiction works, even if Oppenheimer won the award for Best Thriller Film. The recognition of the National Board of Review Award was also prestigious, which included the title among the ten best of the year (among which we also find Barbie). New York critics, at the end of 2023, awarded Oppenheimer with two titles, one going to Nolan, and the other going to the splendid photography of Hoyte van Hoytemareturning to work with the British director afterwards Dunkirk of 2019.
The soundtrack by Ludwig Göransson
Film awards and… music awards. Yes, because Oppenheimerin addition to being the record-breaking feature film during the 2023/2024 Award Season, it stood out during the Grammy Awards: Ludwig Göransson even managed to beat John Williams, earning the Grammy for Best Soundtrack for Visual Media. The Swedish composer, who had already collaborated with Nolan in 2020 Tenet, would later go on to win the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. The evening of the Globes, for Oppenheimer, was a triumph: Best Drama Film, and then Best Director, Best Actor in a Drama Film, Best Supporting Actor. Five awards which, in fact, will launch Oppenheimer towards the BAFTA and the Academy Awards®.
The editing of the film, among the deserved awards at the Oscars®
As expected, a few days before the Oscars® evening, Oppenheimer defeated the competition at the British Academy Film Awards: thirteen nominations and seven BAFTAs won, including the one that went to Jennifer Lame’s editing. Here the parenthesis is necessary, because Oppenheimerplayed on a temporal crossroads, It has its pulsating narrative spirit in the editing: the dynamism of the story, between the detonation of the atomic bomb, up to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s relationship with the Manhattan Project, which will crush him under the weight of torment, is emphasized by the editing key given by Lame, to the second collaboration with Nolan After Tenet.
A subsequent illumination of Jennifer Lame’s talent will arrive during the Oscars®, when she will win the coveted statuette, during a memorable night: Oppenheimer will win the most important awards, culminating in the Best Director and Best Film double. In between, the Oscar® for Robert Downey Jr., protagonist of one of the most emotional moments of the evening, and then the award to Cillian Murphy, capable of giving the character an emotional spectrum with a strong impact. In short, if awards neither take away nor add anything to the intrinsic importance of a work, it is undeniable that recognition nevertheless increases the public’s interest. And in times when the life of a film is practically infinite, have Oppenheimer Ready to watch, it is undoubtedly an added value.
