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Christopher Nolan Wins First Oscar, Thanks Academy for Thinking He’s a ‘Meaningful’ Part of Cinema History
Christopher Nolans wins the best director Oscar for 'Oppenheimer'
In this year’s race, Nolan was nominated against Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”) and Jonathan Glazer (“The Zone of Interest”). Despite the stacked competition, Nolan has been the odds-on favorite to win because he’s been feted at nearly every precursor ceremony, including the DGA Awards and Golden Globes. The story follows the career of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), from his efforts at Los Alamos to build the weapons of mass destruction that ended the war to his eventual fall from grace during a security clearance hearing.
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