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‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Best Picture Oscar

'Oppenheimer' wins Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards, after a long season of campaigning that already proved it one of the year's best.

It also ended its theatrical run with $957 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Best Picture winner since “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” and its $1.1 billion, claimed the top prize exactly 20 years ago. The exalted British filmmaker has long been fixated upon stories of haunted and potentially self-destructive men who sift through the source code of space-time in a desperate bid to understand the meaning of their own actions, and so the “father of the atomic bomb” — a theoretical physicist whose obsession with a twilight world hidden inside our own led to the birth of the modern age’s most biblical horrors — would seem to represent an uncannily perfect subject for the “Tenet” director’s next epic. A book like John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima,’ with its endless, Dante-like descriptions of human suffering could live in one’s brain forever after you turn the last page.

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