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Can Anyone Stop Oppenheimer at the Oscars?
The season’s slumbering colossus finally woke up.
So it was all the more notable when Friday’s PGA nominations passed over Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse and The Color Purple in favor of The Zone of Interest, a sober foreign-language contender that has made roughly $600,000 at the domestic box office. In his favor: He’s repping a more highly regarded film, and though voters may want to spread the wealth, Team Oppenheimer can argue that, while Cooper is sure to have other awards opportunities down the road, this could be Murphy’s only shot at gold. Coming early in the night, Downey Jr.’s Golden Globe speech delivered every bit of big-honking-movie-star charisma we expected (though following Jo Koy’s monologue surely made him seem even more impressive on that front).
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