Oppenheimer, the biopic of the famous physicist who led the United States to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II, won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The film’s hero, Irish actor Cillian Murphy, won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in this film, while its British-American director, Christopher Nolan, won the Oscar for Best Director.
The American actor also won Robert Downey Junior won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the film Oppenheimer, in which he plays an evil bureaucrat who seeks to eliminate the famous physicist.
Oppenheimer’s film is a 3-hour historical drama, dealing with science and politics, and achieved unexpected success at the box office, with revenues amounting to $953.8 million, in addition to receiving wide praise from critics.
Nolan also wrote the screenplay for Oppenheimer, and produced the film with his wife, Emma Thomas.
The scientist Oppenheimer headed the secret Los Alamos Laboratory, which was established during the era of US President Franklin Roosevelt, as part of the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. He supervised the first detonation of the atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, which he code-named “Trinity,” before these bombs were used to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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